Most irritating genre/style of music?

[maveric]

Just feel like stirring up the shitpot a bit. :popcorn:

let the Flames begin!

[LeftyMom]

1. Enya.

When I found out my son's father had all her CD's, I should have known it was not meant to last.

[mvd]

8. I love her best-of collection

:P

[khashka]

53. You realize you are going to hell?

She has beautiful voice and knows how to use it. And she's one of about 2 people who writes and sings songs in Latin......



Khash.

[LeftyMom]

56. Probably

Hell will have much more interesting music, though. Also, way better sex. :evilgrin:

[khashka]

57. Save a spot for me...

I love Enya. But my mom was driving me to the Dr. (Shouldn't drive, long story) and we were playing Enya....


"Fuck this, she's putting me to sleep! I want something I can rock to!"



Khash.

[LeftyMom]

58. God, that sounds like something my mother would say!

:D

[name not needed]

2. Mainstream rap

If only for the hordes of suburban white kids acting like thugs. If your mom has to pick you up at the mall, you ain't a gangsta.

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Yeah, I'll second that.

[951-Riverside]

12. I HATE those rap music videos that air on MTV/VH1 all the time

They need more variety and more MUSIC VIDEOS also I hate those Ramone/Emu type bands that have been cropping up recently.

[ghostsofgiants]

15. Hahaha, that just made my day.

[name not needed]

18. Emu?

[ghostsofgiants]

19. Dude, you didn't know Tommy Ramone had an emu farm?

[nickgutierrez]

33. Anything they play on the radio

With a few exceptions, of course - most of it is just crap, IMO.

EDIT - ah crap, should have been a reply to the OP.

[Maestro]

61. Mainstream rap is bad

but there is definitely some good Hip/Hop out there in the underground. Basically if it is played on the radio, forget it.

[DS1]

4. Salsa

totally unlistenable

[kwassa]

31. I love me some salsa!

Ruben Blades and Willie Colon!

[AllegroRondo]

64. I played Sax in a salsa band

I was the only Anglo, and didnt speak a word of Spanish. The music is incredibly complex and fun to play. I really enjoyed it.

[Radical Activist]

5. Top 40 Pop Ballads

Of the Celine Deon, Whitney Houston & American Idol variety.

[asthmaticeog]

6. "Smooth Jazz"

[Lautremont]

14. I hope this and "cool jazz" are the same thing, because that's what

I voted for. I had to listen to a "smooth jazz" station for weeks on end once, and it nearly drove me insane.

[asthmaticeog]

24. Not even close, I'm afraid.

Cool Jazz is in fact cool; Cool is Brubeck, Stan Getz, Modern Jazz Quartet. Smooth is assgoobers like Spyro Gyra, Lee Ritenour, and Kenny G.

[Lautremont]

28. Thanks for the clarification.

"Smooth" is the kind I hate, then. Kenny G - the devil's flatulence!

[no name no slogan]

36. I hope that also includes Mahavishnu Orchestra

and the master of musical monotony, John McLaughlin.

[sandnsea]

38. And so

Is there a "just" jazz, neither cool or smooth.. or is there more jazz, like hot and spicy and rough, etc...

???

[WritingIsMyReligion]

50. You can really classify most jazz as "jazz," without qualifying it.

(Except for smooth "jazz" musak--a guaranteed way to piss off any musician of any genre is to treat it as a sublet of jazz, when it reality it's just---musak. :puke:)

There is, however, swing and Big Band stuff, cool jazz, etc., etc., etc. But in a general context, just talking lightly about it, qualifying it so can be seen as splitting hairs.

[sandnsea]

54. I feel so "hep"

I've never liked Kenny G type jazz, and always felt like a musical nerd of some sort for not liking "jazz". I did not know that was not "deemed" jazz, like Charlie Parker jazz. Good to know, should I ever manage to get out of this hobunk town and go somewhere, I wouldn't want to have a big evening out ruined by stumbling into a "smooth jazz" factory.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

60. LOL!

Goodness no--Jazz is "Bird" (Parker), Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong....and on, and on, and on....

:D

[Montauk6]

41. Yeah, I was about to say...

Can't be dissin' on Miles Davis and Gerry Mulligan, man, that's cold.

A Personal fave: MJQ's "The Cylinder"

[WritingIsMyReligion]

29. Fuck NO!

"Cool jazz" is an actual style of jazz--Miles Davis's epochal Kind of Blue could be seen as cool jazz.

Your mistake! :P :P

[toddaa]

40. Kind of Blue is modal jazz

Birth of the Cool is cool jazz.

Sorry to be pendantic, but I worship at the altar of Miles. Gerry Mulligan is the quintessential cool jazz artist.

Kenny G, on the other hand, needs to replace that soprano with a loaded .45 and do us all a favor.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

45. LOL yes.

That would be a great favor indeed. :D

Kind of Blue is indeed modal jazz, and the very best of modal--really quite the best of any jazz, dear Miles. I have also, however, heard it described as having "cool jazz undertones" or something to that nature--I'm not even sure where I got that from, but it was recently, and it stuck in my head. It's probably not even true. Damn memory of mine... Keeps both the true and the untrue. :blush:

I'm so sorry about the mishap--I should have specified better, or just not have said anything at all. The latter would probably have been a better choice.

:blush::blush:

Forgive me, Miles!

:D

:hi:

[mac56]

48. Kenny G and John Tesh were riding in an elevator.

After a few moments, Kenny turns to John and says, "Dude! This place RAWKS!"

"Sshhhh..." replies John. "I'm listening...."

[mvd]

7. Personally, I'd say rap-metal is the worst

Not a hip/hop or metal fan, but they have their places in music.

[maveric]

9. Barbershop Quartet music grinds on me.

Worst form of American music IMHO.

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Okay, who said 'barbershop'?

I fart in your general direction, in four-part close harmony. :grr:

[bridgit]

11. better not have...

http://www.rockapella.com

[maveric]

13. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Please! What about the children?

[951-Riverside]

16. Oh come on I think the Carmen San Diego & the Folgers Themes are great!

:D

[bridgit]

22. that's the spirit...

:bounce:

[bridgit]

21. heehee...

:-)

[realisticphish]

17. I voted for country

because it matters not a whit whether it's mainstream or not, it just sucks.

Rap has irritating performers, yes, but they also have quality, intelligent performers as well

[mvd]

20. Now I don't say rap or death metal sucks

just because I don't like them. Country is good and has its place IMO.

[realisticphish]

23. well, of course this is all subjective

"most irritating" definately implies opinion

I don't deny that it's music, but i happen to find it extremely annoying, and i think it sucks :shrug:

[mvd]

25. I'll agree with you on the jingoistic stuff

Also, the cliched, preachy stuff. Those things tarnish the image of the rest of country music.

[bigwillq]

26. Country (nt)

[flvegan]

27. Anything prepackaged/designed to just sell, sell, sell

Britney, Backstreet, that "crunk" shit, Nickleback (oughta be Nicklecrap)...even the country stuff that's just churned out with no originality or style, tailor made to fly off the shelves. It keeps the real talent buried, oftentimes.

[Endangered Specie]

30. All of the following: Pop/Popular/top 40; Rap; Heavy Metal...

and anything with an electric guitar

[kwassa]

32. Is that you, Dad?

I didn't know you had an account on DU!

[Endangered Specie]

35. Stupid things give me a earache...

and the multitude of 'songs' with them, they all sound the same, over and over and over and over.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. Country and western.

Talentless freepish types howling bad poetry about pickup trucks and forlorn love, off-key through their noses. Auditory tear gas.

[MrSlayer]

37. Country. Can't stand it.

Redneck noise.

[SeattleGirl]

39. Death Metal

Makes me want to throw things.

[Maestro]

62. Oh now SeattleGirl there is definitely some good

death metal/metalcore out there. It really helps me to excorcise some demons blow off some steam. The term "death" metal really gives it a bad connotation. I suppose if the bands all sang about death and destruction, it would fit and while many groups do talk about some violent subjects it is not the all encompassing theme that pervades all "death" metal. But yeah, I sometimes want to throw things too while listening. :)

[Kenergy]

42. Klezmer (sp?) n/t

[jpeg]

43. Q: What is reggae?

A: It's that crap music frat boys pretend to like.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

52. So you're not a Bob Marley fan, then?

:D

[mac56]

44. New age.

People shouldn't be allowed to listen to it while driving.

[Benfea]

46. Country and western is the soundtrack of evil!

If the devil existed, hell would consist of nothing but listening to country and western music.

[spacelady]

47. Christian Rock - am I the first to mention it?

[Benfea]

49. Trouble wasn't bad.

Of course, lots of Christian rock purists bitch and moan about their theology (they got into some wacky spiritual stuff in addition to the Christian stuff), but musically they were alright and one of the more interesting bands to come out of the Metal Underground.

[mac56]

51. As Hank Hill so wisely put it:

"It doesn't make Christianity any better, and it just makes rock music much, much worse."

[spacelady]

55. Harrrrrr...I can agree with that! Thanks for the Hill insight.

[carpetbagger]

59. Tejano.

Take the worst elements of current pop and country music, throw in an accordion, write Spanish lyrics, and then you have the nature of the curse.

Mind you, I like salsa, "oldies Mexican", and many other Latin styles. But this is what contaminates about 1/4 of my FM dial.

[Maestro]

63. Exactly!

and even though it is popular in Northern Mexico and the Southwest it is not typical of traditional Mexican music. There are much better standard bearers for music coming out of Mexico such as Caifanes/Jaguares, Maná, Kinky, Plastillina Mosh, Café Tacuba just to name a few.

[DBoon]

65. "continuous soft hits"

the "light music" stations

[Ron Mexico]

66. I couldn't vote for rap quickly enough and can't vote often enough because

DU only lets you vote once in a poll.

I was so hoping that rap would be a dead fad like disco is now. Sad as it is to say, I'd rather listen to an hour of disco and an hour of C&W combined than ten minutes of rap.

I'd rather listen to "We Built This City" ten times in a row than ten minutes of rap. THAT'S how much I hate it.

[MadHound]

67. I suppose that I'm the odd one around here

I can't agree with any of your choices, in so much as I find redeeming music in virutally an genre. In fact the one genre that I find the least amount of good music in is death metal, but there are a few gems contained within.

I guess I just have broad-based tastes in music, and rule nothing out:shrug:

[Beaverhausen]

68. Disco - especially that new disco like Madonna is doing

and especially when it's played really loud in stores when I'm trying to shop. The drum loops drive me insane!!!

[Richardo]

69. House/Techno/Synthocrap

Insufferable, interminable, soulless and annoying. Yick.