Songs That Turned You Off of a Genre of Music
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I'm personally interested in any song that stands to tell an interesting story. Music has a long history of murder/death/rape suffering songs. Just ask Johnny Cash.
OP could have said that Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" turned him off. Everyone would have sympathized and the thread would have died a quick death.
One of my best friends used to listen to Green Day all the time. Eventually I heard them so much (especially, American Idiot) that now I can't listen to more than a few seconds of any of their songs, even the older ones.
I'm the same way. Now I know there were more tracks on American Idiot than "Wake Me Up When September Ends," but, dammit, you wouldn't know it listening to the radio. What kills me is, they have a new CD out, and they're STILL playing that song
I've been in rock radio over 30 years. I have loathed rap since its inception. The fact that people think it belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just plain nauseates me.
Crappy lyrics that don't rhyme, though they're delivered like they're supposed to. Some "songs" which take five people to "write"? Give me a f*ing break.
To me rap will always be disco without the notes ... or the effort ... or the talent.
--Ted
Crappy lyrics that don't rhyme, though they're delivered like they're supposed to. Some "songs" which take five people to "write"? Give me a f*ing break.
To me rap will always be disco without the notes ... or the effort ... or the talent.
--Ted
Yeah, rap is a genre I find very hard to get into. There are a very small number of artists I enjoy (dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip is one that comes to mind), but for the most part I find it hard to listen to.
Oh, I know. I'm just a huge R.E.M. fan and dig the fact that their work can get people talking like this.
True. But a lot of them are different, somehow. I never, for example, felt dirty or guilty listening to a Johnny Cash song.
It's hard to explain. Part of it may simply be because I'm a military historian, with a particular interest in low-intensity conflict. I read about death and suffering and cruelty all the time.
So on the one hand, I don't feel any need to explore those sorts of things in my spare time, listening to music. I get enough "brutality" at work.
And on the other hand, death metal--at least, that sort of Cannibal-Corpse-type Florida death metal--doesn't exactly explore these things in a mature or insightful way. It's just unrelievedly ugly, both lyrically and musically.
Now that I think about it, I react in a similar way to a lot of art that deals with abjection and the abject. I often find it pretentious and jejune, and I dislike it as much for its pretentiousness as for its grossness.
There is one death metal band that I do enjoy listening to, and that's Nile--partly because the lyrical content is quite different.
I guess beauty/depth are in the eyes and minds of the beholder. I'm not much a death metal fan either, but I have found compelling lyrics and strong examples of storytelling or even poetic strength in the genre before. I think the flaw of stuff like death metal is that it goes after the same territory as anyone but in a much more straightforward, blunt kind of way.
That can turn a lot of people off, and I can certainly appreciate that.
Like I said, I'm more of a Dylan, Tom Waits, Warren Zevon and old blues kind of guy, but a quick look through my music collection (www.recordnerd.com/lists/barnaclelapse) will reveal that I'm capable of listening to and finding something of interest in just about anything.
It's all about perception, and I'm always fascinated to discuss someone else's.
to each his own...
I've felt much the same way about rock over the last 15 years.
Of course I'm not arrogant enough to state my opinion as fact.
And I'M not arrogant enough to call someone else arrogant when I apparently haven't read the entire post. Do the words "to me" imply fact or opinion?
Sheesh.
--Ted
It hasn't happened yet, but Rascal Flatts are almost turning me off of Country Music. I hope Lyric Street brings out the new SheDaisy Album soon so at least they are not forgotten.
Then what would you recommend and please don't say Animal Collective and their nauseating psychedelic "let's get high on weed just to understand what they are doing" style.
Obviously not everything outside the mainstream sounds like Animal Collective.
That's correct, but "outside" the mainstream, they always seem to be at the top and their new album might be considered the best album of the year. On both counts, I just can't get into them at all, so I'm always looking for new good music and what others like to listen to. Maybe outside the mainstream I might find something I actually like.
The Rock'N'Roll Hall of Fame itself is a joke.
Rap is not a form of music at all. It lacks Tambre.
As for Disco, well, I've heard it describes just Funk and Soul mixed together and then stripped of what made Funk and Soul cool. Either way, I'd prefer Disco to still be around than to have to deal with Rap.
Death Metal's problem is that they don't have any singing and/or vocals that are easy to understand. Tom Araya and Phil Anselmo can get away with the growling thing because you can still understand them when they employ that vocal style. Everyone else just sounds like they're sick on seafood. The guitar players could use a few less staccato riffs too. Rythym is a beautiful thing, even in Hard Rock and Metal.
All that being said, I do miss a local Death Metal band called Demise. A high school friend was the drummer. They disbanded after the guitar player died in his sleep in 2003. My friend has said there will be a reunion one day with a friend of the group on guitar. I hope that day happens sometime relatively soon. That band had some great hooks, rythym in their songs and a sound that scared the shit out of you on the CD's and at live shows. Black Sabbath would have been proud.
Genres/Groups I dislike because of a song turning me off...
- Country, because they've turned into cheesy pop singers and many of the songs are just depressing...
- Pop, because of anything Britney Spears ever tried to sing...
- Rap, because it causes my brain to hurt after 3 seconds (Dr. Dre & Ice Cube's 'Natural Born Killaz' and Eminem being exceptions because they make me laugh.)
- Green Day, just because they sucked a cock after Dookie and never recovered. That American Idiot song made me want to strangle them too.
- Most forms of Punk, just because the musicianship is non-existent. You can blame that on the Ramones with their 'I wanna sniff some glue' song. Love the Punk Rock attitude, though.
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