what is the worst form of music you have ever heard?

[coloradodem2005]

For me, it comes down to soft rock and that porno-like music that they call smooth jazz. It is boring as hell. Both types. I could kill myself.

[Syrinx]

1. most, but not all, rap

[OneBlueSky]

18. I'll second that . . . I have heard some good stuff from . . .

the folks like Wyclef and Eminem, but rap songs I can even listen to are few and far between . . . the worst venue for listening to rap? . . . riding in your car and coming upon one of those sonicmobiles with eight million watts of power, blasting the latest piece of crap for the whole world to hear . . . I liked Ray Charles' comment . . . when someone asked him if he listened to rap, he said "No, because I can't learn anything from it" . . . musically speaking, that is . . .

[Syrinx]

22. yeah, I like the ones you mention

And I like some of the old raps from NWA and Public Enemy and even stuff like Grandmaster Flash. But most of what I hear is like "I'm rich and I kill people and rape bitches" and stuff like that. Not my cup of tea.

[Rich Hunt]

81. oh really?

Which 'rap' songs are those? I'm not familiar with any 'I'm rich and I kill people and rape bitches' song.

[Vladimir]

119. Listen to any

50 Cent lately?

V

[fishnfla]

76. Cant spell crap without r-a-p

eom

[NightTrain]

107. And you can't spell "crock" without "r-o-c-k." What's your point?

:shrug:

[WillParkinson]

116. Same here...

Don't care for it at all...

Especially blaring from a car radio as it goes past my house.

[Birthmark]

2. Disco made my skin crawl.

Rrrrrrr...

[undergroundpanther]

10. Ez listening

,lite pop,smoooth soul,progressive farty trumpet jazz,bands like pigface...
and I can take bluegrass only in small doses.

[Eye and Monkey]

13. I bet this'll make your skin get up and run away -

http://www.cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html

To begin watching "Ashcroft sings", set your video preferences:

[KissMyAsscroft]

3. "Free Jazz"

I dont know what is worse, listening to it...or people trying to assign deep meaning to people wanking off on a trumpet high out of their mind. Miles could do it, no one else could.

And if anyone has ever heard "music store musicians" jam...makes you want to curl up into a ball and die. Absolutely gutless music designed to show off how good you are on your instruement and nothing else. Fusion/Funk combo...terrible.

[rucky]

4. New Age

John Tesh & Yanni & Enya

bleech!

also HATE World Beat music. Hate it.

[AngryAmish]

7. I once had a girl try to seduce me to Yanni

She succeeded, but boy was that crappy music.

[tigereye]

55. raises the interesting question

of how much will one accept another's taste in horrible music for love or lust? Where does one draw the line?

[Whitacre D_WI]

78. The Answer:

For love? No, one cannot love someone who subjects them to an endless barrage of horrible music. People like that are incapable of love (or any other human emotion). ;)

For lust? Shit, I'd do just about anything for lust, and I ain't alone.

[tigereye]

105. yeah but subjecting yourself to

hmmm... what is the worst possible music you can think of ... Brittney, Vanilla Ice, really bad country, Kenny G., just for sex? Shame on you guys. (wink) I have always had fairly good standards... and luckily all my ex lovers had good taste in music. Introduced me to Coltrane, Miles, Lou Reed, John Cale, The Clash, Tom Verlaine, REM, and the list goes on. Sorry, no good taste, no nookie. :evilgrin:

[hasbro]

5. Toby Keith

or Christian Rock.

[Syrinx]

9. I'm no fan of Toby Keith, but one of his songs is hilarious

I'm Never Smoking Weed With Willie Again.

[burrowowl]

6. Disco but I'm

sure there is worse. Having not frequented Night Clubs much nor listen to radio music at random.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Oh, smooth jazz is the pits

But it's nothing in comparison with the depths of travesty that is a lot of rap, hip hop, salsa, and generic top 40 "rock" music.

There are others that are also ones I don't like to listen to, but the above are the ones that actually make me want to kill myself rather than listen to it.

I'd rather listen to Kenny G or Yanni or even, God forbid, Barney.

[Kathleen04]

11. Elevator music...

makes me ancy.

Also, songs that are instrumental but you don't know that they're going to be instrumental so you keep waiting for the words to start. :silly:

[mvd]

12. Rap/metal combos

I don't like rap or kiddie pop like Aaron Carter and B*Witched, but those genres have their places.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

14. nu-metal

korn, limp bizkit, kid rock, staind, disturbed and all the other testosterone ogres that frat boys and freepers who fancy themselves subversive listen to

give me nirvana, pearl jam, r.e.m. , and u2 over that shit any day

[Fenris]

16. I'll second that

CockRock must die.

[tigereye]

56. ah is that what it's called

I really dislike most of that stuff. It has such a harsh sound. I guess I just prefer melody.

[coloradodem2005]

40. Well...

...I will agree with you a majority of the way. I kind of like Stained and Disturbed though.

[PittPoliSci]

111. i dont' know if i'd lop disturbed into that category

given, i don't like them, but I'm not so sure they're nu-metal. they are, after all, somewhat talented. more so than korn or limp bizkit.

[Endangered Specie]

15. Heavy metal, anything heavy on electric guitars, most rap and pop.

[Archae]

17. Try this.

Last September I was at my parent's 50th wedding anniversary, and they had a...(urp)...polka band play for the entire 5 hours I was there.

You haven't known torture until you hear amplified polkas for that long.

I got home, I had a horrendous headache.

[TheMightyFavog]

34. Hmmmm..... Intesrsting Case....

A Wisconsinite who does not show the normal Wiscosninite Geneteic response to polka music (The usual reation is an extremely strong urge to consume beer in large quantities and dance like a fool. Fascinating.

[TOhioLiberal]

19. I know that you are referring to...

types of music, but I have the one thing that trumps everybody's responses...

'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' by William Shatner. Trust me, it WILL make your skin crawl!

Trekkerlass

[Fenris]

21. I quite enjoy that song. And "Mr. Tambourine Man."

[drumwolf]

27. Ditto on Shatner.

I find Shatner outright unlistenable. Leonard Nimoy also made a full-length album around the same time Shatner did, and while I certainly wouldn't call it good, at least it's delightfully bad in a way that at least you can listen to it and laugh. OTOH, I can't enjoy Shatner's recordings even from a camp perspective.

[July]

45. For me, too, it's a certain family of songs.

They all share the "I'm Pitiful" theme: "Alone Again (Naturally)"; "Cat's in the Cradle"; "Honey"; "Seventeen" (I think that's the title, it's Janis Ian). Etc. Somehow distinct in my mind from some sad country like Patsy Cline. Sound like whining to me.

[Count Dracula]

20. Pop Music and anything by Bob Dylan.

:puke:

[jpgray]

23. I think there's at least one Dylan song for everyone

If you haven't listened to his whole catalogue, maybe you haven't found yours yet. :D

[Count Dracula]

24. No thanks.

I've heard a couple of his songs and it pretty much killed any interest I had in him.

[jpgray]

26. If all I had heard was 'Saved!', I would avoid him like the plague

What do you like? I can suggest a track based on that.

[Count Dracula]

28. Rock, metal, and dance music.

[jpgray]

30. Well, that's probably too vague to make a recommendation

Some of my favorites include 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall,' 'Like A Rolling Stone,' and 'Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again.'

Anyway, I didn't appreciate Dylan until I got out of a two-year Floyd/Zeppelin binge when I was seventeen. :D

[drumwolf]

32. I don't know about that.

Sure, Dylan's had a pretty diverse range of sounds/styles throughout his career, but I get the sense that regardless of what album or era you're talking about, his vocal style is a bit of an acquired taste.

FWIW, my favorite Dylan song is a much later one from 1984, "Jokerman." And I like him a lot as a songwriter (as opposed to a performer). I like some of the songs he wrote which were performed by other artists (like Hendrix's version of "All Along The Watchtower" or Manfred Mann doing "The Mighty Quinn").

[Ladyhawk]

25. Hank Williams, Jr. and Bryan Adams

I can't stand Hank Williams, Jr.'s "tone quality"--or that of most country singers. Bryan Adams' raspy voice grates on my nerves.

[drumwolf]

29. For me, it's certain types of really awful club music.

If there's any particular style of music that I absolutely loathe, it would be the cheesy Top-40 synthesizer dance music subgenres like freestyle, Hi-NRG or godawful pop trance (and yes, there is definitely such a thing as good trance). I'm not quite sure how to describe it -- it's not really "techno" and it's not disco in the classic sense of the word. Examples would be Aqua, Alice Deejay or Vengaboys.

It's popular among certain ethnic subcultures in urban areas (like Asians in San Francisco or Italians and Hispanics in Brooklyn/Boston/north Jersey), and it's also apparently popular in northern Europe among the Ibiza set. (For example, Aqua is Danish, while Alice Deejay and Vengaboys are Dutch.)

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

I should point out that there is a lot of music I love that many people would pigeonhole as "dance music" or "techno." I'm pretty rabid about certain genres like drum'n'bass, psychedelic trance, classic techno like Sven Vath, and bands like Chemical Brothers, Kruder & Dorfmeister or Paul Oakenfold. Which is why I find it frustrating sometimes to talk about the kinds of dance music I like and dislike -- too many people tend to lump all of it into a single category.

[NNadir]

31. Probably heavy metal or rap.

[vajraroshana]

33. Chinese opera

I imagine I could probably learn to appreciate it; the sets and costumes are beautiful. But it mostly sounds like someone skinning a cat alive.

[Old and In the Way]

35. LOL, I think I agree......very, very strange.

[vajraroshana]

39. it's so strange i think i almost could like it

i found an internet stream that plays it and at first thought it was some modern avante-garde music; but it's actually ancient.

[gottaB]

43. I love pipa music

It's helped me appreciate other Chinese music, even opera.

[Delano]

36. Today's hip-hop

There was a time when rap had something to say, and was pretty interesting, but the crap on the radio today is unlistenable. The same goes for the dozen or so Pearl Jam ripoff bands that now make up rock radio's playlist.

Maybe all the songs finally HAVE been written...

[Commendatori]

53. You took the words right out of my mouth.

Today's music radio is so bad that I've actually turned it off to listen to Jim Rome. I don't mind Rome, but listening to his clones is agony. Yet even the clones sound like classic rock compared to the sort of tripe you just described.

[bobthedrummer]

37. Most metal but especially death metal-barf

:puke:

[kaitykaity]

38. Ska, punk, whatever that

no rhythym 'singing' is. :barf:

Cake the prototype of what I'm talking about.

"You're never there"

[tigereye]

57. maybe listen to some old ska

like the Skatalites or old Jamiacan stuff?

[FDRrocks]

41. Rap by far...

Some rap artists are good... but most of it is CRAP. CRAP. No real instruments and some dude singing lines that any person could spew out in the same key.

Current pop music is in a close second. We've fall far since the Beatles.

[Rich Hunt]

83. so...

what is a 'real instrument'?

[Whitacre D_WI]

42. There is no bad "form of music." There are only bad musicians.

And bad composers.

[LWolf]

50. I have to reluctantly agree.

There are several kinds of music that just flat out don't resonate with me; but my musician son reminds me when needed that all "artistic expression" has it's place. Somewhere. With someone. And that all music is someone's expression. Some of it poorly expressed.

The genres that don't find a place with me include:

rap, hiphop, techno, disco, pop, metal, punk, commercial country.

The genres that live here with me include:

folk/rock/blues/jazz

And I like pieces from just about all the rest I can think of, even if I don't follow the genre.

[tigereye]

58. I'm not sure I agree

that is pretty mild coming from you... or is it a quote?

(you know I kind of miss you know who (gasp), but my husband is glad you have a new icon!)

[Whitacre D_WI]

63. I mean it.

Name a genre that is, at is essence, worthless. I am not referring to hybrid dilutions as "smooth jazz," "new age," or "dance country;" I mean distinct types of music that, by the very nature of what they are, suck.

I mean, a particular genre may not resonate with you, but that doesn't mean that it's to be dismissed outright. I do not like modern techno/electronica, but I am a huge fan of the "Krautrock" that preceded it.

My take is, irrespective of genre, half of what's out there (half of what's EVER been out there) is crap. Half of what's left may not objectively be horrid, but I don't like it.

Oh, but the remaining 25% :bounce::bounce::bounce:

[tigereye]

71. strangely enough I am tolerant of many odd forms of music

and even can tolerate some that makes others deathly ill :) but I cannot tolerate most current bling-bling type rap. On the other hand, I like some hip-hop ( De La Soul, even Outkast) and the old style rap... like Run DMC and their progenitors like Linton Kwesi Johnson.

I really dislike Britney and her type, but I suppose there are some forms of that type of music that are tolerable. Actually in some ways I hate the bastardized dancing ( bad modern/ Dunham rup-off) in the videos more!

Smooth jazz also makes me ill.

Generally, I dislike passionless and soulless corporate music that is all about marketing trends!


But on the other hand, there is so much great music out there, that it almost cancels out the crap. well, almost.

[Whitacre D_WI]

73. But "passionless and soulless corporate music" is not really a genre.

I hate it, too.

[sniffa]

44. christian rock

i don't get it. but then again, i don't get nascar either.

[noonwitch]

46. 12 Tone.

Ugh, it's so tedious and non-melodic.

[Loonman]

47. The Darkness

Whatever that crap they play is called.

[sniffa]

49. stadium rock

and they kick ass!!

[LynneSin]

48. About 98% of the country music out there

Plus anything that came from American Idol

[lazarus]

51. mariachi

mariachi music is of the devil. Or el diablo, as the case may be.

[fudge stripe cookays]

52. Dancy electronic crap like Erasure. GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

I've lived under several "gentlemen", gay or otherwise, who've played this stuff non-stop, with the bass beating through the walls, causing a permanent twitch!!!!

I F***ING HATE ERASURE!

I stopped going anywhere near any clubs that play dancey sort of music because I became so traumatized by the permanent thump-thump. I still hear it in my dreams some nights.

Ick.

[Whitacre D_WI]

65. I try to discover

a little something to make me sweeter.
Oh, baby, refrain from breaking my heart.
I'm so in love with you,
I'll be forever blue
That you give me no reason
Why you make-a me work so hard!
That you gimme no
That you gimme no
That you gimme no
That you gimme no soul.
I hear you calling.
Oh, baby, please
give a little respect
to me.

[fudge stripe cookays]

70. You officially suck, Whit.

ptptptptptptptptpt!

Raspberry for you.

[Whitacre D_WI]

74. Come to me, cover me, hold me.

Together, we'll break these chains of love.

[fudge stripe cookays]

77. STOP IT! STOP IT! Byron! Make him stop!

Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Byron!!!!!!!! Whit's teasing me!!!!!!

[Whitacre D_WI]

79. What's Byron to do with this?

This rumble is between you and me, sister.

[fudge stripe cookays]

84. Rumble? Hmmm....

"When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette to your last dyin day....

Da DA da da....Da DA da da da DUM DUM ch ch"

Byron and I agree on everything. I'm sure that he would back me up on the truly horrific nature of Erasure and their ilk.

Beware. I'll sic my dog on you. He'll...he'll...sit in your lap or something.

[Whitacre D_WI]

85. That is not my lap. That is a COUCH.

And Byron digs Ned's Atomic Dustbin. Therefore, all his opinions on matters of a musical nature are null and void.

[fudge stripe cookays]

91. I dig Ned's Atomic Dustbin too.

And your point would be?

[Whitacre D_WI]

92. Fie!

Fie, I say!

[fudge stripe cookays]

93. Been there, done that, got the

"Did You Miss Ned's Atomic Dustbin? Then You Fucked Up!" dayglo and black T-shirt.

It's good for pissing off fundies. How could you not love them, just for that?

[Mr.Green93]

54. hindi film

[BlueJazz]

59. Just about every song that's played with commercials...

...nowadays. I hated about 99 percent of them when they were popular and now I have to hear the same shit again.

What WOULD be the ultimate "suck Music" if some group came out with
"Polka Rap"....That would be absolute torture!

"Roll out ...the... Barrel..Mother...Fucker. :)

[Bunny]

80. ***snarf***

Coca-cola on the keyboard time!!! Good one!! :)

[tjwash]

60. Gangsta-Rap

nothing but commercialized vulgarity

[LynzM]

61. Metallica done by banjos....

The group Fade to Bluegrass. Oh. My. God. Is this stuff awful...

Listen here, if you dare: http://www.thetributeto.com/fadetobluegrass/

[mopaul]

62. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART

it's so awful, i love it. i reccommend the double disc, 'the dust blows forward', covering 20 years of some of the most god awful, but artsy music ever recorded. guaranteed to drive off unwanted guests at 2 a.m.

[Whitacre D_WI]

67. Uh.

Don Van Vliet is a compositional genius.

His performances may be grating to some people (I love them, but can understand why some don't), but there is no denying his talent as a composer or an instrumentalist.

[Beefheart]

88. One of the greatest of all time!

Of course, as you can tell by my name, i'm a bit biased. Really, though - a singer with a great voice, great lyrics, incredible musicianship, and truly original songwriting. What's not to like? Some of it can be difficult to listen to at first, but it grows on you.

He was a genius in some ways, but not a compositional genius, as is often claimed - we owe the many great musicians of the Magic Band that credit.

[LynneSin]

64. LISTEN TO THIS!!!! If you dare!!! (When Eagles Soar)

http://www.cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html

I mean, can it get worse than John Ashcroft singing?

[Whitacre D_WI]

68. Ah, the sweet strains of the ancient dance of seduction.

Barry White has met his match!

[LynneSin]

72. Remind me never to let you seduce me

:crazy:

[Whitacre D_WI]

75. But Asskkkroft is SOOOOO sexy!

[livetohike]

66. Lite music

whatever the heck that is. Also, the worse thing I ever heard was the tribute to Jimi Hendrix album that was made some time ago.

Just awful. Shouldn't have even tried. Sacrilegious!!

[fudge stripe cookays]

94. Do you mean the "Beautiful People" album?

The one that has samples of all the Hendrix stuff made into dance-type psychedelia? I actually like that album.

Or the Stone Free compilation with everyone doing Hendrix covers?

[livetohike]

103. The Stone Free

with everybody doing a cover. I can't think of one song that sounded like a tribute and not a mangling.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

69. You don't know how lucky you are

99% of Brazilian music is better than American music, but there's one thing we call "funk" (nothing to do with American funk) you ABSOLUTELY DON'T want to hear. Just mindless obscenities (and for ME to consider something an obscenity is really something) screamed over a electronic drum beat. That's all. You'll pardon me for not elaborating further.

[DS1]

82. Salsa

[Loonman]

86. EMO

Yeah. Whatever.


My generation had EMO, but we called it The Smiths and New Order, and it was good.

[Colin Ex]

113. The Smiths suck, dude.

Morrissey is terrible.

I like New Order, though.

-C

[Loonman]

118. Well, I'll just take your word for it

(not)

[ButterflyBlood]

87. death, black and power metal

I can't stand the shit.

[Beefheart]

89. Most country, alt country anything.

Either the unpretentious, overly "patriotic" gasbag pop country of today, or its other - the overly pretentious gasbag alt country of Wilco, et al. fame. Oh, and Christian music. Any type.

[Lizz612]

90. Christan heavy metal

Not a fan of heavy metal death metal stuff, but I can stand it for short periods of time. That said, Christian heavy metal is the weirdest, most contradictory shit out there. Why are you saying "I love you Jesus." so that it sound like a guy barfing into a microphone?

[Zinfandel]

95. Gothic chamber music...not very uplifting...blues with no soul.

[dae]

96. Heavy metal, and Rap.

[leftofthedial]

97. hip hop

most "dance" music

[mouse7]

98. Anything with a steel guitar in it

The steel guitar is the one sound that can send me climbing walls quicker than fingernails on chalkboards.

Banjos are a close second.

[voter x]

100. check out

Robert Randolph and the Family band...will completely change your mind about steel guitar

[mouse7]

102. No, it didn't

I've heard them, and the steel guitar contamination ruins their music for me.

[mouse7]

99. self-delete n/t

[Bertha Venation]

101. rap

I know some bristle when others say "that's not even music," so I won't say it. I'll just say that if I had a choice between going deaf and being forced to listen to rap in the background 24 hours a day, I'd go the way of Marlee Matlin.

[DietVanillaCoke]

104. Progressive rock.

And emo/teen-angst-I-want-to-kill-myself-by-od'ing-on-5-tylenol-kind-of-music.

[NightTrain]

106. Military marching music. God, I hate that shit!

Or, as Jon Stewart might say: "DAMN YOU, JOHN PHILIP SOUSA!!!"

[Dark]

108. Christian and Country

God help us if these two ever merge. Oh god, the thought makes me sick.:puke:

[coloradodem2005]

109. I thought they did merge.

They are so indistinguishable.

[mvd]

114. Common misperception

Much of country is roots music that explores basic human emotions. Yes, some country songs have a Christian bent, but they don't all preach as much. Personally, I like country because it's often somewhat similar to folk.

[PittPoliSci]

110. COUNTRY!

YUCK!

[mitchum]

112. Bad music

Bad music knows no genres

[Bushknew]

115. Pink Floyd, you have to be high to like that.

Anything from Beck or Jewel, Bluegrass music.

Anything with banjo in it.

[Bushknew]

117. The Bond string quartet / absolutely the worst music ever.

http://www.bondmusic.net/homeindex.html