Poll: Dubstep, how do YOU feel about it?

[neonsword13-ops]

It's... ok.

I really don't like most of it, but I have a couple favorites.

Here's some of 'em.

Spoiler

"Oh no, Brony Dubstep. I'm a disgrace to the dubstep culture! DX" /sarcasm

 

[FunKing]

I never got Midnight Request Line. There's some good rhythms going on but otherwise the lack of a real drop disappoints me.

You must be one of these people.

lol that is a good Aphex Twin song.

 

[Kurt Cristal]

You ALWAYS need a Meh. option! That's what I feel for dubstep. I like one song but it as a genre is just more popular music. Popular music has always been generic mostly.

I never got Midnight Request Line. There's some good rhythms going on but otherwise the lack of a real drop disappoints me.

You must be one of these people.

Essentially, but with the superiority complex of one who can type in correct English.

In fairness, I grew up with happy hardcore and gabba influences so I'm more of a fan of the bass-heavy electro. I can appreciate the rhythm-based side of things for the quality but I'd much rather be stomping to something well-produced and with a great drop.

Eeeeeendless summer! Eeeeeeendless summer!
Paaaaaaaaaahty Peeeeeeeeeople!
Hoo boy. Could never really get into the happy stuff except as a gag track, but I like gabba and hardstyle here and there.

 

[Kurt Cristal]

I liked Dubstep for a while but mostly preferred Liquid Dubstep, really smooth stuff with a nice underlying bass rhythm that takes the harsh edge off the wobbles. Mostly though, I prefer DnB (especially liquid, atmospheric and jungle) when it comes to Electronic, with a good mix of trance, house and a smidge of techno.

Lately I've started going off electronic which really only leaves the Rock and Metal that I've listened to for most of my life.

Didn't know there was a Liquid subgenre for Dubstep yet. I'll have to check it out, Liquid DnB is amazing.

 

[blackrave]

Dubstep? Naah.
Wubstep? HELL YEAH!!!

P.S. But actually I prefer DnB over Dubstep

 

[Kurt Cristal]

This.

MOTHER. OF. GOD.
-like button-

 

[Kurt Cristal]

I hate any kind of electronic music with few exceptions. Dubstep is the worst kind of electronic music there is. The Borderlands trailer with the dubstep soundtrack almost turned me off Borderlands 2 entirely.

No sir, "Splittercore" is the worst genre of electronic music. Go on, try to listen to FIFTEEN SECONDS of it. You can't.

 

[Don Savik]

The problem I have is how lazily most of it is thrown together. They take samples from songs that don't even fit with the mood of the song, and instead of TRY to incorporate it into the song they just go back and forth between the sample and the wubwubwub drops and it sounds awful. Why do they have to steal samples ALL the freaking time? Why can't they make their own? Its like a genre of music created from remixes on youtube essentially (I feel bad saying this because youtube remixes are really good sometimes).

Its also the only genre of music that I've seen were its fanbase wants to incorporate EVERYTHING into dubstep. Its like the MLP of music.

I love all kinds of electronic music, but dubstep is trying to hard without even knowing what its trying to do.

 

[Kurt Cristal]

If you went back to, like, the early eighties, and asked them what music would sound like in the distant future if we were all cyborgs, they might have imagined something like dubstep.

Wasn't 80s New Wave like Devo supposed to be the "music of the future"?

 

[Bvenged]

Where's the option that it's mostly shit? The odd good song shines through, and I'm talking about the odd once-a-year good song, and not made by Skrillex. It's a septic-tank of a music-industry, but yeah - dubstep's mostly shit.

 

[LordFish]

Yehh, its rubbish, although a lot of what people say "I LUV DUBSTEP yhBOI" It's not actually dubstep at all, just music with heavy bass.

 

[TheFunPolice]

All my friends completely adore it so I've been around it enough to know I completely hate it

Maybe it's because I just refuse to dance...So maybe music intended to be listened to in that way just doesn't appeal to me..

But I like my music to actually involve thought, you know? Dubstep just sounds like it could be made by any idiot -_-

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I don't like it. It just sounds like noise to me and I'm pretty open to music. I can listen to anything from Death Metal to Mozart but it just sounds like a dial up modem.

My friend is a dubstep DJ and links me tracks but it all just sounds terrible. I really don't understand it.

 

[Kurt Cristal]

I'm not sure what people would classify this as, but it's good:


Psystep? Dubpsy? Chillbient? Dumb genres names...

It's got enough wub and drums to be grouped, but is acutally great music on it's own merit, without needing to be labelled.

I don't mind straight dubstep, but it's kinda a reductive genre... it's overblown minimalism serves its sound but it doesn't leave much room for growth in iterations, as is evident in it's most popular and mainstream avenues.

I'm not sure if there's a way to say this without sounding like a wanker, but I think dubstep has basically run it's course from the UK underground to viral internet popularity to Californian megastardom, refining the formula along the way. At this point it seems like the way forward is to hybridize aspects with other genres to synthesize something new. Then you'll have post-dubstep. /wank-talk

That song actually sounds far more like progressive breakbeat than anything -step. Save for a bit in the middle. And no, you're right, dubstep will eventually move onto some kind of substantial change, it's certainly less stagnant than the hardcore electronic genre has been lately. The newest innovation hardstyle has had was creating dubstyle... and there's still like, two tracks total that fit into that umbrella. And then that's it, trying to be different by slamming a more popular genre on top of itself for the shuffle portion of the song.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

I very much dislike it. I prefer things that illicit some sort of emotional response in me. Dubstep tends to be repetitive and too drum-and-bass heavy. I really dislike the whole concept of a "bass drop", as well; it's not fluid. It's startling and disturbing when it just suddenly starts playing deep sounds. The I don't like the aggressiveness of Dubstep either. It sounds very angry to me, but I like my music to sound either energetically upbeat, vaguely melancholy, nostalgic, wistful or otherwise thought-provoking.

To me Dubstep is just more meaningless noise.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

I like it, but bad dub-step actually makes me ill. It just instantly gives me a headache and eventually will give me a stomach ache.

But overall I like it a lot.

 

[Skratt]

I didn't know what dub step was. Then someone pointed out that a song I was listening to was dub step, and I was like well I really like this song, so I thought I found a new genre. Turns out, just like everything else, I like some but not all.

 

[Hazzard]

The problem I have with Dubstep is how most dubstep all sounds the same once all you can hear is the dubbing and not the original music.

 

[Originality]

In the past I've heard some good dubstep, but didn't know what it was. It was definitely because of the bass drop, which when done right is pretty awesome, but since trying to actually find some dubstep songs I keep finding that the bass drop keeps making a meh song just boring. Going through this thread, there's definitely a lot of meh songs. And of course, there's a lot of plain crappy dubstep out there.

But there's definitely a few I liked, especially Sleep - Echelon (Balloon Party). And Lindsey Stirling - she's an amazing lil pixie.