Music genres you don't 'get'

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Those bands like Cannibal Corpse which are literally nothing but the singer yowling incoherently. Supposedly these songs actually have lyrics, but they are impossible to make out. Unless you do it like this:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-V3NYckOI[/yt]

 

[Goliath]

...and then, along came Pirate Metal.

And you realized--you hadn't.

Just wait until you find about Ninja Metal. You'll never hear it coming.

Hua! Hua!

HUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

*Blast beat*

 

[scotpens]

Traditional grand opera. It would bore me even if I were gay.

I can take folk music in small doses, but a lot of it is very repetitive and gets old real fast. I’ve had an aversion to folk singing ever since I was a child going to summer camp and I was stuck on a bus with 40 other kids singing 87 choruses of “Michael Row the Boat Ashore.”

And that awful, ear-numbing trance and house music. I know it’s meant to be danced to, but it’s like dancing to the sound of car alarms.

Steel bands, bagpipes, and music composed by Sir Michael Tippett.

Everytime I watch a historical movie with a scene of bagpipers accompanying soldiers marching into combat, I wish the enemy would shoot the pipers first.

Heavy metal. It just sounds like noise to me.

Ditto.

Rap. What's the point? It has no melody.

The only rap song I like is Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back.” Even middle-aged white dudes can enjoy it. And it does have some clever rhyming.

 

[CaptainCanada]

1. Rap - there are a few exceptions ("Empire State of Mind", for instance), but the genre as a whole does nothing for me.
2. Reggae
3. Bagpipes
4. Some of the louder formers of metal.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I wouldn't say there was any music I don't 'get'. There some genres I appreciate more than others, and there are a couple of sub-genres I don't care for at all, most of the time (mainly death metal and gangsta rap), but none I don't 'get'.

I am okay with pretty much any kind of rock that does not include that from-the-depths-of-hell screeching, including heavy metal/black metal that is not of the screeching variety. My go-to sub-genres of music falls into this category: alt rock/hard rock/grunge rock/non-screeching metal. Anywhere along that portion of the spectrum is where I call home.

I am also okay with pop, though I probably would pick classic pop (say, Elton John or 80's New Wave) over some of the pop being generated today.

I'm not a big fan of techno/electronic, but I can take it in small doses.

I'm not a huge fan of Country/Western, although I do like Garth Brooks, The Dixie Chicks, and classic Alabama. The twangier it gets, the less I like it.

I love classical music - symphonic, chamber, opera - you name it.

I can take Rap & Hip Hop in limited doses...but that means really limited doses. And I won't listen to gangsta rap at all.

I'm good with R&B/Motown, Jazz (both classic and contemporary), etc.

I'm okay with reggae, again, in limited doses. Ditto various other types of world music.

Music is art...and I don't think you have to like everything. But I do think it's good to try new things, even if they turn out not to be for you, since it's the only way you will discover the gems you might have missed otherwise.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I do like opera music - but only when it's by Philip Glass (i.e. Monsters of Grace, Einstein on the Beach).

 

[Goliath]

Akhnaten is one of my favourites.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Glass is without a doubt my favorite classical composer of all time. The more electronic and repetitive his music gets, the more I like him!

 

[Mr. Adventure]

While I can appreciate it I never actually enjoy opera. Jazz and classical only rarely does it for me.

As for music I truly can't get, Lawrence Welk. I watch the reruns occasionally if I'm flipping channels because I find the whole thing, the music and the presentation, so unbelievably wretched. It's like a trainwreck, I just sit there transfixed, eyes wide and mouth agape.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Ever hear Robin Williams imitate Welk? It's a riot:

"Tank you for dat lovely tune, dat funky music, will drive us till de dawn, let's boogaloo till we puke. Now let's hear it for de brothas in da band, each and every one o'dem is a bad mutha in his own right. Play dat funky music, white boyce..."

 

[Orac Zen]

Country. Not so much that I don't "get" it as I find it, in general, completely and utterly unappealing. Men whining about what bitches women are, women whining about what bastards men are, occasional whinings about various other things... All that complaining is very wearing. The fact about one in a thousand of them can actually sing doesn't help. And when they start yodelling I want to stab things. Especially my eardrums.

To each their own, though. The fact I find country about as appealing as styrofoam being rubbed together in combination with fingernails down a blackboard hardly means it's crap or anything.

Most other music forms I can deal with, although some of them (metal, trance, rap) only in small doses.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ At least in country they don't go "smack my bitch up, yo" like in some genres I could mention.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

^ techno?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Nah, techno typically has better lyrics. Then again, so does John Cage's 4' 33".

 

[Mr. Adventure]

^ http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7j8e_prodigy-smack-my-bitch-up_music

 

[iBender]

I like Prodigy, Smack My Bitch Up is about Heroin and veins though, wicked cool video I've got to say.

... [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvDt57Dr_WY&feature=related[/yt]

 

[Goliath]

Whoa! Dude--Not Safe for Work!



Cool video, though.

 

[lennier1]

German folk music.
Germany's continuing contribution to crimes against humanity.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4mPkSgpsyw[/yt]

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I like Prodigy, Smack My Bitch Up is about Heroin and veins though, wicked cool video I've got to say.

You can get that meaning from "Change my pitch up/Smack my bitch up"?

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Heavy metal. It just sounds like noise to me. Any other genre or mashup of genres, but just that or any other derivative like death metal, I can't see the appeal.

Now, I'm curious...would you consider this metal, or something else? I'm just curious what part you object to. Both of these bands are classified as metal, but I suspect you might have a different opinion of them, as I think there's a lot more going on than just noise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unjqBkdmdag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X8qM7KwqeQ
(Some of the vocals are a bit growly in parts of this one, but they're in character--the song is about the movie Planet of the Apes.)


And...wow, lennier, that's a harsh assessment of German music. I was actually about to chew you out for being mean to Germans until I noticed where you were from. (But I still would say that there is no need to be so down on yourself. )