Music Genres You Can't Stand

[aruseusx]

Metal. Even aborigine folk music I can stand. I'm not talking about dio/metallica type metal. I honest to god enjoy that. I'm talking about like... Suicide Silence. The stuff where there is ANY screaming, it loses 10,000 points for me. I would rather listen to Top 40.

Its a good thing Suicide Silence arent metal then.

Also Dio screams too.

Rap. Country. Modern Pop. Metal where the vocalist screams (he just covers up the fact that he can not sing).

I lol'd.

So holding a scream for 17 seconds means you cant sing (listen at about 3:20)

OT - Modern Punk
I barely like you throughout the seventies onwards (Minus Discharge, Black Flag, Misfits, Circle Jerks) but at least you were original, now every singer sounds like a green day ripoff. And they suck too.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

I'm not a great fan of country music, and nor am I a fan of rap music in general, although I've heard bits and pieces from both those genres that I enjoy.

Out of my own preferred genre - metal - I don't really like the deep growly death metal style songs. Melodic death metal [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjOITeJzIDc] is fine, thanks to the generally tamer growls and the singing, as well as the melody, but when it comes to bands like Lamb of God or Cannibal Corpse I just can't listen to them.

 

[MercurySteam]

Rap is technically poetry, and the vast majority is crap but there are some good "songs" out there.

 

[junkmanuk]

"Gangsta" Rap
R&B
Soulless music created by corporations (i.e. Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers etc...)

Grrr that makes me angry.... Now I'm going to have to listen to some 90s synth pop to cheer myself up...

 

[SuperNova221]

Pretty much everything that appears in the top 40 nowadays. Rap songs where every second work is either "sex" "hoes" "cars" "guns" or "money". Metal bands that involve any screaming. Everything else I can either tolerate, I like, or hate so much that I've forgotten about it.

 

[Hap2]

I cannot stand country music myself, to me it is depressing.

 

[BonsaiK]

Country because it, as a genre, is dependent on and defined by musical concepts that are, in any other context, considered bad musicianship.

Like most people who hate any particular genre because they think it's bad musicianship, you are wrong. Proof:

Errrrrr that video is sped up, it just doesnt look natural, im not questioning the musicianship of country though, i have almost never listened to any to decide anything....

No, it isn't sped up. He does actually play like that. He is legendary for playing like that. Here's the same song again, in full length, with vocals, so you can tell for sure that it's not sped-up footage:

 

[Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon]

rap and anything too happy.
and i like death metal and all other metals.
I like english contry music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btEpF334Rtc
just epic
EDIT: oh yeah nearly forgot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_gZ3eCFnaE&feature=related
this make glad to be born in somerset
CIDER!!!!!!!

 

[Daipire]

I like western-punk, i guess...


Also The White Stripes and The Raconteurs/Saboteurs.

 

[sageoftruth]

I typically dislike pretty much any genre when heard on the radio or other mainstream media. Only the fans seem to have access to the music of their genre that is worth listening to. Try a metal station and you'll hear Avenged Sevenfold. Try a pop station and you'll hear Justin Bieber or Britany Spears. Try a hip hop station and you'll hear the same artist with ten different names. I used to be a genre hater, but then my chorus got stuck singing with a British pop star I'd never heard of and her music turned out to be quite tolerable. I'll still be impressed if we ever hear a teen pop star worth listening to.

 

[BonsaiK]

No, it isn't sped up. He does actually play like that. He is legendary for playing like that. Here's the same song again, in full length, with vocals, so you can tell for sure that it's not sped-up footage:

Well this one looks natural, cuz i dunno the other vid looked really strange to me. He plays really well, and this rather makes me question all the hate towards country..... Which ive never listened to before, but i dont see why it sounds bad.

The other video isn't fake, it's just really crusty 80s VHS footage. My guitar teacher back when I was a student used to own that very same video.

It's the same in any style - people focus only on what they know. Most people who hate country haven't heard Albert Lee. Most people who hate rap don't know who Rakim is, or why he was important. Most people who hate reggae have only really heard the same half dozen Bob Marley songs we all know. Etc etc.

 

[clipse15]

So i'm guessing the escapist has zero OutKast fans.

 

[the Dept of Science]

I looked through the whole of this thread and have seen barely any examples of people saying that they dislike a genre without at least some degree of ignorance.

No genre's of music are inherently better than the others. All genres have a small fraction of people actually worth listening to and a massive amount of stuff that is in one way or another, bad. Pretty much every example I have seen has been people judging it by the bad majority, that even their pet genres have.

Saying rap is all "talking over a shitty beat" about how big your dick is is, or country is just rednecks singing about being rednecks is like saying metal is all people that can't sing, growling about how great it is to kill people over droning guitar noise, or jazz is just people making stuff as they go along. Its just a crude stereotype not held by any people that actually listen to the genre.

For example, there are plenty of rappers who are witty, articulate and possess a high degree of verbal dexterity who rap about pretty much any topic. Even if they do sing about more stereotypical rap stuff, does that make it bad? Maybe it means I relate to it less, but, I can still find Jay-Z or NWA enjoyable. It would be wrong to tar them with the Soulja-Boy/50 Cent brush.
Similar points can be made about country, RnB, metal, electronic music, indie rock and pretty much every other genre that people have been bashing. Appart from crunkcore (although, in my head, I can imagine there being a good crunkcore band, it's just a long way off).

 

[Kajt]

Music genres I can't stand? Motherfucking schlager.

4) Screamo/Thrash/Death Metal- There just seems to be no form and I dislike getting headaches.

Spoiler: This?

 

[Billion Backs]

Christian Rock/Rap/anything.

Mainly because I hate the fuckers.

Aside from that, I'm okay with just about any genre of music. Generally, it's specific songs/performers that piss me off, not the actual genre - there are too many things in one genre to hate it as a whole. The only exception for me is Christian rock/rap/whatever because I'm against Christian values and religion in general, and the only reason for aforementioned genres would be spreading said religion and values.

So, really, I'm okay with just about any genre of music.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

That's kind of a meaningless statement because you could in fact say that about almost any genre from country to screamo to rap to death metal to opera. Every genre has its specific vocal quirks, none of them are "bad musicianship", they are in fact very appropriate musicianship for that style. Vocal "musicianship" isn't about being technically the best, it's about being able to master the specific techniques of a style in such a way that compliments the music the most effectively.

Not entirely true. Proper vocal technique is very important if the singer doesn't want to wind up unable to use their vocal chords at all. Country technique in particular is pretty bad with this, because the nasally sound they get is an indication that they aren't opening their mouth enough to lift their soft pallet, a very big no-no.

On topic: I really can't stand any punk-derived genre of music, and that goes doubly for screamo and metal core. The reason I can't stand punk is that it was a rebellion against the need for professional musicians to be technically skilled with their instruments. It's part of the modern culture of laziness, and a part that, as a musician, I really can't stand. As for why screamo and the various other hardcore punk genres bother me, it's because they've been frequently confused for metal in recent years, giving music that actually requires a level of virtuosity unseen outside of jazz these days a bad name as a genre for lazy people to go "chugga chugga chugga COOKIE COOKIE COOKIE chugga chugga chugga..."

 

[BonsaiK]

That's kind of a meaningless statement because you could in fact say that about almost any genre from country to screamo to rap to death metal to opera. Every genre has its specific vocal quirks, none of them are "bad musicianship", they are in fact very appropriate musicianship for that style. Vocal "musicianship" isn't about being technically the best, it's about being able to master the specific techniques of a style in such a way that compliments the music the most effectively.

Not entirely true. Proper vocal technique is very important if the singer doesn't want to wind up unable to use their vocal chords at all. Country technique in particular is pretty bad with this, because the nasally sound they get is an indication that they aren't opening their mouth enough to lift their soft pallet, a very big no-no.

On topic: I really can't stand any punk-derived genre of music, and that goes doubly for screamo and metal core. The reason I can't stand punk is that it was a rebellion against the need for professional musicians to be technically skilled with their instruments. It's part of the modern culture of laziness, and a part that, as a musician, I really can't stand. As for why screamo and the various other hardcore punk genres bother me, it's because they've been frequently confused for metal in recent years, giving music that actually requires a level of virtuosity unseen outside of jazz these days a bad name as a genre for lazy people to go "chugga chugga chugga COOKIE COOKIE COOKIE chugga chugga chugga..."

In all my years of singing, teaching, performing, industry work, etc, I'm yet to meet one person who destroyed their singing voice by singing country music, so I think that's a bit of a non-issue. Also, not all country musicians go for that nasally vocal sound, maybe in the American scene they do, however where I live the country musicians tend to sing in something pretty close to their regular speaking accents.

The whole concept of punk as a musical reaction to technical music was that people with creative ideas shouldn't be excluded from making music just because they didn't also have technical ability, and that it was ideas that represented the true seed of musical innovation, not how many notes you could play at one time, or how fast you could go. I think that was definitely a good thing for popular music as a whole to realise, and a lot of musical styles that exist today probably wouldn't even exist without some sort of punk movement having happened.

 

[Artina89]

Rap, Hip hop, Country, emo and Nu Metal. I just don't get the appeal to be honest with you.