Is there a genre of music you totally HATE?

[Archae]

I mean a genre of music you NEVER want to hear again?
You detest it that much?

For me:
Church hymns.

Not only are they usually insipid, there usually is people in the church singing, who are absolutely tone-deaf.

[Arugula Latte]

1. I'm with you on the church hymns and may I also add country music.

It's funny -- I grew up with country played constantly in my house (my dad was a dj and for a # of years the radio station he worked for played country). For me, familiarity bred utter contempt, while my sister is a big fan to this day. Go figure.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Rap, because of the punk-assed, fake-assed "gangstas" in my neighborhood

Up and down the street on those earthshaker car stereos, muthafuckin' this and muthafuckin' that, from sunup til sundown and all points in between. Little punk-assed "gangsta" wannabes who live with their parents.

[RedXIII]

7. Yeah,i hate that music too.

Sometimes i want to blare Metallica or Megadeth at full volume.

[tango-tee]

14. Same here.

Sometimes I'd like to blare church hymns back at them. It's not that I like them, but they would seem to be an antidote.

[Initech]

3. I really, serioulsy hate trance music.

[Orrex]

36. Maybe you just need to give it another trance.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. Champagne music

À la Lawrence Welk

:puke:

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. Disco

Hated it in the 70's. Thought it would be gone forever by 1980. Still hate it.

Also anything that uses AutoTune.

If you can't sing, DON'T. Unless you can write songs like Dylan or Tom Waits that are so good that nobody cares how shitty your voice is. But if you need a computer to record a vocal, don't fucking bother. Especially if you're a rapper and aren't really singing to begin with.

It's not cool. It's not funky. It's not hip hop. It's just SUCK.

[CTyankee]

57. I just LOVE Disco! I am in ecstasy listening to the Bee Gees.

I love the whackiness of Disco, its absurdity. It makes me feel good.

[SteppingRazor]

65. I second the anti-AutoTuning.

A lot of people say if they had a time machine, they would go back in time and kill Hitler or Stalin or something. I'd kill the guy that invented the AutoTuner.

[petronius]

6. I've found that everything I know I hate tends to have at least one redeeming feature,

but when it comes to modern jazz (or smooth jazz or fusion jazz or whatever it's called) I have yet to find that positive element...

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

8. Church stuff or gospel, no question. Anything else I don't mind so much.

[hibbing]

26. I have issue with "genre"....

Hi,
I find the artificial construct of "genre" to be rather limiting. I used to say I can't stand "Country" music. Well I enjoy a lot of old timey "country music" so that eliminates that. Rap? What is rap what is hip-hop? Is Humpty Dance rap? I don't know, it is late and I am rambling, I just know I judge individual pieces as they are and try not to categorize then even though I kind of did in this post!

Interesting topic though, thanks for posting.

Peace

[WCGreen]

9. If there is talent and passion then I will listen...

If it is just phoned in like so much pop music, well, that is what I can't handle...

[Robeson]

10. 80's New Wave crap.

[CTyankee]

58. What's that? Which songs are they?

[supernova]

11. Modern day country

:puke:

and fake contemporary gospel

And some modern rap that doesn't focus on social justice.

[semillama]

52. I am in total agreement with you. n/t

[rucky]

88. +1

[emilyg]

12. rap

[OhioChick]

13. Country

:puke:

[Rhiannon12866]

29. +1.

Me, too! :puke: :hi:

[AtomicKitten]

63. + a gazillion

:puke:

[SoxFan]

73. Most "country" is actually Nashville Pop

Sheena Easton with steel guitars. Jimmy Buffet with a fiddle.

Listen to off-the-radar country acts like Steve Earle, Neko Case, The Jayhawks, Old 97s, etc, as well as the old warhorses like Willy, Waylon, and Johnny.

[BlueIris]

90. self-delete.

[cherokeeprogressive]

15. #1 - Rap #2 - Musak

[Zorra]

16. Rap and disco. nt

[Blue-Jay]

17. "Contemporary Christian" music sucks balls. (Godly balls, mind you)

As an atheist, I sort of enjoy hymns & gospel, but Christian pop/rock makes me want to die a fiery painful death . As a genre, it's truly horrible.

I also don't care for European disco/house music. Boom tsst boom tsst boom tsst boom tsst boom tsst.... (repeat for 2 hours.)

Aside from that, I can enjoy all other genres of music.

[Arugula Latte]

53. "Godly Balls" would be a good name for a contemporary Xtian group

:rofl:

[LibDemAlways]

18. Rap and Country. n/t

[Bennyboy]

19. classic rock...ALL OF IT...

If I ever hear Stairway or Freebird again please kill me. From what I understand is that Van Morrison has at least one other song than Moondance and that Neil young has done otehr things besides the five songs they play of his...

[old mark]

20. Techno and anything related to that. nt

[AllenVanAllen]

21. I can't stand Zydeco and I don't know why.

When I was younger it didn't bother at all but now, it makes me suffer.

[XemaSab]

22. First on the list is any rap "music" that is a variation on the following:

We up in the club
Me and shawty
She shakin' that ass
And we drinkin' Hennessy

Repeat, ad nauseum. :puke:

[AsahinaKimi]

23. I used to totally hate Rap...

Till I heard some Japanese groups doing it.. I still can't stand American Rap. Japanese Rap to me is tolerable, only because of the way its produced, and lacks any of the nasty lyrics.


Girl Groups like Halcali and Bennie K, for example.

[sakabatou]

24. Smooth jazz

[mix]

25. no nt

[hibbing]

27. I have issues with "genre" .....

Hi,
I used to say I hate country music, well as that is defined today, that is that poppy stuff that is played on the radio today. I love some of the old timey country that I am not sure how would that be identified today. In terms of "rap" is Humpty Dance "rap" or "hip hop"? I guess it all comes down to how you define genres and many artists cross those boundaries. Interesting subject, thanks for posting this.

What genre would my current favorite band The Avett Brothers be categorized? I am thinking the only one I can eliminate is classical.

Peace

[proteus_lives]

28. Reggae.

Yuck.

[Throd]

95. Even after 27 bong hits, reggae still sucks.

[SoCalDem]

30. COUNTRY

:)

[KG]

31. phil collins

[Paper Roses]

32. Rap. Brings to mind violence and anger. n/t

[MissHoneychurch]

33. German Volksmusik

Horrible, just horrible ...

Proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdYAuhRbFzg&feature=related

[Lydia Leftcoast]

44. Mein Gott, das ist furchtbar

Among the German-American community in Minnesota, that stuff is known is "oompah music," after the typical tuba accompaniment.

[Rabrrrrrr]

51. Ach! Ich liebe Deutsches Volkmusik!

But, I grew up in Wisconsin to a poor family that was all about the polka bands at weddings and the Saturday night dances with the bands that did country/western and German music. A little bit of goodness for everyone!

Man, those were fun days.

[Hardrada]

61. Es ritten Drei reiter zum Tore hinaus....

Ja, die rechte Deutsche Volksmusik. NICHT Deutsches POP musik! Gott in Himmel!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

34. Funeral polka.

[SoxFan]

48. Hater

[A-Schwarzenegger]

71. Accordions are the tool of the

accordionists. :*

[Mad_Dem_X]

35. Hard-core rap, thrash metal

If it's loud and obnoxious, not even suitable for background music, forget it.

[Orrex]

37. "Praise" music makes me wish for the apocalypse

Every single song in the genre is horrible proof that The Devil is loose in the world.

[Dr Morbius]

38. Does "corporate" count as a genre?

Mass-produced, shrewdly marketed, insubstantial crap they call "pop" or "rock" or "country" or even "gospel." You can keep it all.

[Bunny]

39. Jazz. Sweet Jesus, I hate jazz.

I also hate headbanging metal and I strongly dislike gangsta rap.

[BlueJazz]

81. Do you like guitar solos ?

[MrScorpio]

40. I'm not the biggest fan of speed death metal

It's like a continuous sound of two Buicks crashing into each other.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

43. I will give Death Metal credit for truth in advertising.

After listening to any Death Metal song for more than a minute, you do wish you were dead.

[Iggo]

50. Yeah, it is!

:headbang:

[bigwillq]

41. Hard rock/metal

like the headbanging type stuff. Never got into it.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

42. Nu Metal, Hair Metal, Death Metal

I won't say all heavy metal, because I think Metallica and a handful of other metal bands are decent, plus the Pumpkins have been partly influenced by heavy metal, so it's not all bad.

But Nu Metal, Hair Metal and Death Metal are horrid. Just horrid.

Oh, and what genre is ABBA? It's not rock, it's not really pop, it's not really disco, it's....just a sickening-sweet sludge of sound typically belted out by drunken wedding guests. Yeah, I'd say ABBA is a genre of its own, and it sucks.

Edit to add 1980s Yuppie Schlock SynthPop. Add your rick-roll here. Although Schlock Pop sometimes falls into the "so bad it's good" catagory. Whenever I hear Howard Jones' "Things Can Only Get Better" or Spandau Ballet's "True", I'm horrified, but I cannot turn away.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

45. Gangsta rap, contemporary Christian, techno, and that music (I don't think it has a name)

that has an inept singer wailing over a rhythm track.

One of my former teaching colleagues once went to hear a student of hers giving a concert of "contemporary Christian" music and came back mumbling about "a young girl in a slinky outfit moaning torch songs for Jesus."

[SoxFan]

74. "Torch Song Jesus" would be a good name for a band

Or a Brooklyn art collective.

[doc03]

46. About 90% of what they call country

today. Of course crap, I mean rap.

[SoxFan]

47. Wimp Pop

aka, "singer-songwriter". James Taylor, John Mayer, Pete Yorn, et al.

[femmocrat]

49. Rap.

I can't understand what the hell they are saying.

I can even stand country more than rap, and that's saying a lot.

[Kali]

54. huge choruses in "rock"

as in polyfuckingphonic spew :puke: :nuke:

[HughBeaumont]

55. 1. Modern mainstream rap 2. Modern mainstream country 3. overpompous record-store clerk indie.

you know, the kind that's created on reconstructed atari 2600s, roland DR550s, their uncle's 80s sequential circuits synth, a shitty guitar strung with piano wire played with an ebow, a vocoder, without capital letters and with mountains of irony.

[SoxFan]

76. Don't forget the ironic facial hair and Brooklyn mailing address

[snailly]

112. Yes and throw jazz into that shitpile

[Mojambo]

56. I'm pretty narrow in what I like

And have little use for anything that falls outside it, but that's more indifference.

For out and out hatred, I'd go contemporary country, hip/hop and rap, big band and swing music, and rock music that makes being complex and challenging rather than fun to listen to, it's primary goal.

[ccharles000]

59. metal

[ceile]

60. I'll have to go with death metal.

I can find some redeeming things about country, smooth jazz and gospel. But death metal is...well it just sucks....

[Hardrada]

62. I grew up with Lutheran hymns and chorales

and people could sing them too. Excellent music. Listen to Bach's arrangements of them sometime.
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme! And so on.

[SteppingRazor]

64. cookie-monster metal.

I don't mind metal if it's done right, but if I hear one more sludging, gothy band fronted by a cookie-monster-inspired vocalist I will be forced -- forced, I tell you -- to sacrifice said frontman to Satan. I'm sure he'd want it that way. (The vocalist, I mean, not Satan. He probably wouldn't want that at all, as he'd like these vocalists to remain alive, spreading their throaty evil across the globe.)

[SteppingRazor]

66. Also, anyone who said "rap" is a racist.

:popcorn:



;)

[Glorfindel]

67. Whatever this is...

They are supposedly a "Christian" band.

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Devil+Wears+Prada/+videos/+1-BfGsRVROpek

[RedXIII]

68. Anything other than Rock/Metal....

Like Emo,rap,pop.

[jobycom]

69. Nah, too much beauty in everything to worry about hating genres.

I find if I hate a whole genre, I've missed something, so I try to hear it as a devotee would. If I still don't get it, I just move on and leave it to people who love it.

Why bother hating music when there are so many stupid drivers to hate instead?

[geardaddy]

70. Bad skat singing.

[Throd]

98. Redundant

[Moondog]

72. Rap. n/t

[Skittles]

75. JAZZ

it just fucking irritates me

[BlueJazz]

82. Maybe you just haven't heard the right kind. I've heard some jazz solos in even Polka..

...that was ..ah...rather neat and cool. :)

PS...if you're talking about dixieland...yeah...can't blame you.

[Skittles]

85. man, I do a mean Polka dance

fast Polka is my favorite :D

like this only my dad and I were much better, much more fluid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHZyqAj5mKM

[BlueJazz]

105. I watched it. Pretty neat. I played in a Polka Band once. Sax is my main instrument but I also..

... play Bass.

I like that type of Polka and a lot of the Swedish ones. They seem more "Happy" and carefree.
The German Polkas (sometimes) can be rather...ummm...thinking...Military and trudging. (that slow OOOMP..OOOMP..OOOMP)

:)

[MilesColtrane]

113. The ghost of John Coltrane has scheduled Skittles for an ass kicking.

[Xipe Totec]

77. Björk

I believe it's its own genre.

[Kaleva]

78. There is music I care not to listen to but I don't hate it.

[tester2010]

79. Rap

It's crap.

[LeftyMom]

80. Pop-y faux country.

[Lindsey]

83. Definitely church music. There are actually some rap songs I

like. Blondie's "Rapture" IMO was rap and one of the first. I'm not into most current rap but every now and then something comes along that I get into.

[cemaphonic]

84. Chinese Opera

Most of the usual suspects - rap, country, shallow pop music - have at least some good examples. And I like a lot of stuff that lots of people hate - early 20th century modernist stuff, minimalism, Indian music, etc. But Chinese Opera is just pure torture.

No wonder opium addiction used to be such a big problem in China - they needed it to dull the pain of their terrible, terrible entertainment.

And there is a lot of horrible church music, true. But Bach (among others) wrote lots of hymns that are awesome.

[yankeepants]

86. Rush

HAAAAAAAAA!

[Frank Cannon]

87. Any of the ear-splitting autotuned bullshit they play on the radio today.

I don't want to go into "get off my lawn" mode, but Jesus Hernandez Christ, I can't believe that kids today listen to that garbage.

[Cash U Nutt]

89. Anything in the techno-trance-house mode - avoid at all costs!!

[BlueIris]

91. Showtunes.

I hate musicals.

[blue_roses_lib]

93. GUH - me too

Although hate isn't the way I would describe it - more of a preference to NOT listen to it. Show tunes, death metal, and full gospel. Everything else - I'm pretty eclectic so I like a little bit of everything. Current favorites are medieval polyphonic chant and techno.


I will use the word hate for.... f*ing TALK RADIO!!!! Jeebus H Keeee Rist!!! Shut. the. FUCK. UP!!!!! HATE IT!

[HopeHoops]

92. Disco. Rap is a close second.

[Dulcinea]

94. Gangsta rap & Nashville Pop.

Nashville Pop doesn't qualify as country. Country music is Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Waylon & Willie, etc.

I detest gangsta rap. 99% of rappers are poseurs.

[Iggo]

99. 'Nashville Pop'

Thanks for that.

[LanternWaste]

96. I call this genre: Modern Waste.

99% of everything recorded after 1982...

I call this genre: Modern Waste.

[Throd]

97. Anything with Autotune, or whatever that shitty dreck effect is called.

[av8rdave]

100. Hip Hop, Country and Michael Bolton

[Faygo Kid]

101. Singers who show off their pipes and don't know how to sing the damned song.

Sinatra and Fitzgerald know their stuff. So do many others.

Whitney Houston, Marian Carey and Michael Bolton wouldn't know HOW to sing a song if it hit them in the ass. It's all about them.

[Bertha Venation]

102. Rap and Hip-Hop.

[nickinSTL]

103. generally...

(as there may be individual songs in some genres I don't hate, but overall hate the genre)

gospel, contemporary Christian, country (minus a few old country songs and a few country-pop crossover songs), jazz, big band era, and most rap/hip-hop.

[Taverner]

104. Opera

Fucking HATE HATE HATE opera

[Brother Buzz]

106. New Age Windham Hill whale music crap

[MorningGlow]

107. Rap

The odd rhythms set my teeth on edge.

And country (can't stand twang). And modern jazz (the dissonance frays my nerves). And church hymns (terribly written). And...er...prog rock. :hide:

[Old Troop]

108. I'd have to say opera

[The_Casual_Observer]

109. The Mexican polka music or whatever it's called.

[Maccagirl]

110. I'm with the folks who hate modern Christian music and

new country...and rap.

[Mira]

111. Rap

[Jamastiene]

114. Country

I just can't take country unless it's Willie Nelson, the Dixie Chicks, or Dolly Parton.

Ok, so I like some country.