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What 'genre' of music do you hate and why?

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by blackheadline

hed-kandi/funky-house or whatever the fuck perma-tanned, semi-plastic abominations of wannabe-wag slags listen to in expensive clubs while they drink cocktails and attempt to snare brentford reserve footballers by showing their nipples to any dribbling bufoon that saunters past.

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blackheadline | 11 Feb '08, 12:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Jazz

you cannot all play a solo at the same time.


^

I think we have a winner in the catagory of "wittiest reply of the day"


shittiest*


no,

I think that award goes to you.

Congratulations!


Funk

Disco
Reggae

I think I might be racist.


Ska


why?

(i love ska/reggae etc)


I don't know

I can't really rationalise it


il let you off

cos you're a chelsea fan


I suppose if I'm fair

it isn't all ska, more pop-punky ska stuff. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones make me violently sick


oh well if its that shite then im all on board

reel big fish etc make me want to vom (i think i find ska-punk worse because i actually like old ska) although capdown were immense


:'(


post-punk

0 x good songs.

Bad dress.

Shitty attitude.


Not even Love Will Tear Us Apart?

Come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.


gang of four?

non?


wrong


^

Ska makes me want to take a dump in my own ears to block out the sound.


this is a procedure that requires skill

but in the case of blocking out ska, entirely worth it


^

it makes me antsy and annoyed and a little bit angry


"Irish" Punk

a la Drop Kick Murphies makes me want to put babies on spikes. Seriousleh.


As much as I really hate the idea of writing off an entire genre

and all that that stands for and stuff, I've not heard a reggae song that I like in my entire life.


Can't stand it, sorry.

Everything from UB40 to Horace Andy, Chaka Demus to whoeverelseyoucanthinkof.

Bob Marley now has the default reaction of making me think of stoned students, which admittedly isn't his fault but doesn't really help the situation in my mind.


don't apologise, but..

I'm going to do you a compilation cd and send it over with poster of an alien sporting the caption "take me to your dealer"


:)

I wasn't being entirely serious. I've heard lots of 'proper' reggae that people would recommend when I tell them I don't much like it, and it all leaves me cold.


the first couple of UB40 albums are great

they slotted rigth i with specials and the beat and that

king
for for thought
one in ten
earth dies screaming

awesome tunes


listen to 'johnny too bad'

by the slickers. if you still think that then you can lay reggae to rest as it were


Me neither


I like one reggae song and one reggae song only.

And that reggae song is apparently officially classed as 'Dancehall.' That reggae/dancehall song is Ring the Alarm, and it's freaking awesome.


I hate reggae too

I was discussing this violently the other evening and someone called me racist which I found uncharitable to say the least, especially given my professed love for much of the hip hop genre.

The only song I like is 'Many Rivers to Cross' by Jimmy Cliff but that's more of a soul song surely?


jimmy cliff's a difficult one

a lot of his stuff borders soul but most of his stuff is predominantly classed as reggae


funky house

mostly because of the twats that like it, and the fact that it gives me a headache


I once

got railroaded into going to a funky house night where they had a live saxophonist.

A live saxophonist. Her name on the posters was 'Lady Di.'


that sounds like a nightmare

an actual nightmare


Jazz, every time.

Whenever I hear the intro to Withnail and I, listening to the crowd whoop as some cock with a sax rips apart 'Whiter Shade of Pale' I feel like leaping back in time, finding the venue, dropping from the ceiling onto the stage and shouting 'Stop this nonsense now'. You're messing up the harmony, the melody and, to paraphrase Homer Simpson 'You're making it up as you go along'. The dynamic of jazz is so utterly craven. It makes installation art look rigorous.

I once nearly punched a jazz fan friend of a friend (he was also an SWP member) who said that compared to jazz, 'the Beatles were a pile of sh*t'.


the beatles

are a pile of shit compared to most things....


^This

.


right

you and me - outside now. this mop-top mockery has gone far enough.


Please for the love of God

Tell me you're joking??


Or

I'll cry :(


beatles

Mozart's rubbish as well.


Yes.

Does my nut in. Most of the bands are american as well.


Happy Hardcore

I think (hope) it's disappeared thankfully


god..

yes. kill it now.


agreed

although it's making a worrying resurgence under the veil of the 'hard house' scene. e.g. that rank Basshunter tune that was somehow no.1 for a couple of weeks.


it's the bastard brother of drum'n'bass

which has produced albums like Goldie's Timeless, Reprazent's New Forms, London Elektricity's Billion Dollar Gravy, etc. whereas Happy Hardcore has only ever given us ABSOLUTE HARDCORE MADNESS VOL.44564 MIXED BY SI & DANGER!!!! HARDCORE WILL NEVER DIE!!!!!!1111


You're the bastard brother of Drum'n'bass

Whilst what you say is of course true, it did also give us 'Shooting Star', which is brilliant. S'all about the singles :)


i love all the tv adverts

for 'mega fucking mash up 8' or 'banging brain-melters 6"

frantic zooming in and out
shouting
the DJ (normally simon spazzer or davey b) sticking their tongue out at the camera (which is still zooming in and out)


Me either

Some of the best music ever written: Some Justice by Urban Shakedown Compounded by Gordon Edge, Trip to the Moon by Acen and, of course, I'm Raving I'm Raving by Shut Up and Dance.


Some Justice and I'm Raving, I'm Raving

are hardcore, not happy hardcore. I'm not familiar with the other two tracks you mention but if they're the same kind of music then they are as well. Happy hardcore came later, when hardcore split into happy hardcore and drum'n'bass.


Well don't I look like a silly billy

I always knew it as hardcore at the time but I've since heard people refering to it as 'happy hardcore' so assumed I must have got it wrong. I sometimes heard it described as 'breakbeat' as well but maybe that's sub-genre of hardcore.

Anyway, yes I would say Compounded and Trip to the Moon are the same style. See for yourself, Compounded:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qk1T1_hM4w (skip to 1:35 for the 'good bit')

Trip to the Moon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfMlQJ5SeFo (that's Part II, there were about four different parts and countless remixes, Part II was always my favourite)


all great hardcore tunes

this abomination, on the other hand, is happy hardcore: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1e6jMBmRkI


Juno music


I have never heard a song I like from the following genres.

Reggae
Hip-Hop
Rap
R&B
Ska
Soul

Believe it or not I'm not racist, why is it that all the sterotypical "black" music is the music I dislike.


wow

you're missing out on a lot of amazing music.


This, a million times over.

Start here and embark on a funk and soul odyssey, guaranteed to entice girls at bus stops across the world:

http://www.amazon.com/New-Orleans-Funk-Various-Artists/dp/B00004Y246

And a little digging is all it takes to unearth loads of incredible, non-stereotypical hip hop.


you need to hear some good rap and hip hop

pronto.

I'll make you a mix cd.


srsly this ^

for the love of christ your horizons are narrow!


My horizons aren't narrow..

..it's just that I havent heard anything from these genres that I like yet.

It doesn't meen that I've dismissed them completely.


well expand immediately then

because you're missing out


happy hardcore

handbag house

I just don't see anything worthwhile in either.


handbag house

is a fucking great name for a genre though.


Punk

mainly fairly boring


are you talking 70's british punk?

I'd be inclined to agree, if it wasn't for the influence it had on hardcore punk.


wrong


'Oirish-American' pseudo-celtic plastic paddy cuntcore like.....

Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Black 47 et al make me want to go on a killing spree through the streets of Boston (MA or Lincs, I'm not fussed)

Commercial R&B, the way in which this bland, generic, material goods obsessed shallow shite has hijacked the name of an honourable musical genre must irritate fans of delta blues/John Lee Hooker et al at least as much as the fake emo movement drives those of us who remember the real deal to despair.


seconded on all 3

the hijacking of emo upsets me greatly


Elliot

and Sunny Day Real Estate and Texas Is The Reason


not to forget

the get up kids.


R N' B

in it's most recent form, say from 1995 onwards, Usher, R Kelly, Joe, all the identikit divas, etc. All those pathetic slow burner ballads with no tune, recycled samples from good old songs, and unnecessary vocal histronics, they do nothing for me...


^^this

admittedly I have already once noted my hatred of said "Irish" "punk", but I thought you deserved note for such an excellent turn of phrase...


Sorry I'm late ;

someone order a can of worms, yeah?


Those hard-trance songs with lyrics like

"i wanna walk in the sun, on the sand, in your hands, i wanna love all the time - sun, sand, sun, sun, beach, love, sex, sand, sun, sun, beach" and the vocals have been altered so much it sounds like Joe Pasquali's singing it

and also with that incessant "boomboomboomboom" bassline that is totally mandatory whether it fits or not


bland stadium ROCK like Nickelback, Hinder, etc.

oh and 'Gypsy-Punk'- urgh.


^ this

also agreed on the r'n'b stuff, and also cookie-cutter pop and generic chart indie (see: Snow Patrol, Razorlight et al)