Poll: The most overrated genre of music!
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The Beatles were okay until I discovered Lucy In The Sky and Come Together. Then shit got awesome.Torrasque said:
Dubstep is a genre as much as techno is, but I bet you're using the word "techno" as an umbrella term for all electronic music. May as well go ahead and call The Rolling Stones death metal as they all use distorted guitars, bass and drums - right? Black metal isn't really a genre either as it's more of a technique...spartan231490 said:
/silliness.
I think the problem with the poll is that the genres aren't "equal". There are several different kinds of rock music listed yet rap only gets one. All electronic music gets shovelled in with commercial dance which could really just be considered "mainstream pop" because that's essentially what it is, the same applies to modern rnb.
It's a fun thread anyway.
2-step is a different genre bud, basically garage.Jazoni89 said:
Join me in labelling the newer, commercial side of dubstep "nuStep". Brostep doesn't quite paint the right picture and the newer stuff has pretty much nothing at all in common with dub (the roots/reggae kind).
The only rap group I listen to:Tipsy Giant said:
They got a message, they got a rhythm and they aren't using any synth either
What a coincidence - I, too, am a great admirer of Rap music.Vault101 said:
I prefer the older, 90s stuff. The latest album I've liked that wasn't pure instrumentals came from around 2003; Champion Sound. Check it out!
I would have to say electronic or more precisely DubStep. It's bloody everywhere! seriously, it's driving me mad. how someone can listen to it is beyond me.
oh well, everyone says the same thing to me as well. "how can you listen to heavy metal? it's just noise."
oh well, everyone says the same thing to me as well. "how can you listen to heavy metal? it's just noise."
Classic rock. Not because it's bad (I actually quite like it,) but because people seem to have issues moving past it. I understand that we all want to emulate the drug fueled insanity of the 60s, but maybe we should try and find a new sound to work with--and before fans of, say, wubstep step forth, I MEAN A NEW SOUND THAT DOESN'T SUCK ALL THE DICKS.
I voted for Modern Rock but what I really mean is Classic Rock because people drool all over music JUST BECAUSE it's from the 60's and 70's and that was a 'better time' or something and they thrive off the nostalgia of an era they were never alive in.
The hippies grew up and marketed their youth culture to future generations and make bank on it. It's really hyped up as the best music there is and it really isn't.
Honorable mention goes to dubstep because I can't believe that the majority of people actually like it so much as they like being trendy.
The hippies grew up and marketed their youth culture to future generations and make bank on it. It's really hyped up as the best music there is and it really isn't.
Honorable mention goes to dubstep because I can't believe that the majority of people actually like it so much as they like being trendy.
I was going to say electronica because dubstep fanboys have a tendency to hop on all my rage triggers at once, but then I remembered how the opening to Brutal Legend encapsulated everything I hate in this new generation of "metal."
I can't really vote, since I feel that pretty much all of the genres(and especially the bands that you put as examples) are overrated in one way or the other. Heck, the only artist on that list I don't consider overrated is Beethoven, he's bad-ass.
My "standard-rule" is usually that if it's played on commercial radio, it's probably overrated, but hat's just my shitty opinion.
Genres aren't overrated, artists are.
In a pinch though, I'd vote for "Mainstream Pop".
Genres aren't overrated, artists are.
In a pinch though, I'd vote for "Mainstream Pop".
That parody-music sounded more like a particularly bad post-grunge song than metal, to be honest.loudestmute said:
True that, dude. Smash Mouth and Blink-182 are my faves from that list.DustyDrB said:
Anyone recall the dreaded year for music that was 1997 *shudders*
There was a list somewhere but "Barbie Girl" by Aqua was at the top of it... I thought it was going to be a clever song, taking the mickey out of the image of a "barbie girl." But.... the band insisted on it being played as a straight song with no message. Then a little part of me died.
Alright, admittedly every year has its bad songs but many, many bad songs were released on that year. I can't remember them because the self preservation function is kicking in and wiping all memory of them away.OhJohnNo said:
Btw, Rebecca Black was also born in '97
Meh. I care little about Rebecca Black - she's already almost forgotten.TakeshiLive said:
And my point was that surely OK computer makes up for all those bad songs by being one of the best albums ever.
Either punk rock or classic rock. For the former, rejecting virtuosity and giving the bird to the system doesn't make you more authentic than the guys you're rebelling against. For the latter, Journey is overrated, the "if you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there" thing was a load of hogwash, and radio still won't budge in their stance in playing the same stuff over and over again.