Your Music pet peeves

[Mysticgamer]

after searching a while back for some new music, I came across a few things that kind of annoy me

I'm not just talking about specific genres or artists you don't like (although thats certainly part of it)

just things that seem to regurly come up and piss you off

1. when you have an electronic track that actually sounds pretty good..it starts out nice, but then BAM it gets completly ruined by "lyrics"...some idiotic phrase repeated in the most annoying abnoxious way (you know what I'm talking about where the voice is all distorted into sounding deep..why do they do that? it doesnt sound good, it sounds fucking stupid)

Spoiler: example

(to be fair this isnt the worst exmaple..and I actually don't mind Bassnectar)

2. also electronic related, when I'm listening to a track..all is well but then the beat/temp shifts too...well I'm not sure what the technical term is (the type found in drum and bass genre) granted this one is entirly subjective, for some reason that combination does nothing for me..and kinda puts me off

Spoiler: to be fair I don't mind this song

3. ANY song with a guy and just his guitar (probably singing about a girl) blaarrgh..

4. alot of shallow songs about love..granted 90% of sings out there are about relationships but the same tired teenge style crap certainly wears thin

I hate when a song I like has about three or more techno remixes. Especially the mixes that simply repeats the first verse or the bidge of the song over and over for about ten minutes.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

This is something that I've been thinking about for a while, actually: BASS AND BEAT DO NOT A GOOD SONG MAKE. There needs to be melody. Feeling. Emotion. Meaning. I can't think of a single recent song that makes me feel at all. It's also why I don't get why people like dubstep. Like, what's the appeal to it? It's all focused on odd unnatural sounds and deep bass. I mean, what sort of mood is it trying to put me in? Am I supposed to be angry, sad, happy or something else?

At 3 in the morning with half naked, drunk women dancing around and strobe/black lights, it's actually quite awesome

Honestly, your statement does not make it seem any better... I REALLY don't like the idea of being up at 3 in the morning dancing to dubstep with drunken, half-naked women under strobe and/or blacklights. It sound offensive to most, if not all, of my senses, depending on the amount of physical contact involved and how intense the scent of alcohol and various other substances is.

That still doesn't answer my question, though: what does dubstep make one feel? What emotions does dubstep inspire in you, good sir?

 

[Rickolas Walrus]

Honestly, your statement does not make it seem any better... I REALLY don't like the idea of being up at 3 in the morning dancing to dubstep with drunken, half-naked women under strobe and/or blacklights. It sound offensive to most, if not all, of my senses, depending on the amount of physical contact involved and how intense the scent of alcohol and various other substances is.

That still doesn't answer my question, though: what does dubstep make one feel? What emotions does dubstep inspire in you, good sir?

It depends really. Sometimes it's just really good to chill to it, other times it's good for adding energy to something

However I will say this: original dubstep is shit. There's only one...uhm....composer that I enjoy original dubstep from and that is Ephixa. His pieces actually have at least some semblance of melody. In my opinion anyway

Spoiler

One of his chiller pieces

One of his more upbeat pieces

Remixes, on the other hand, I like a lot. Most of the time. If done correctly it amplifies what a song already made me feel on it's own, or it adds to the song some other way

Spoiler: One of my favorite remixes

 

[Vault101]

[Honestly, your statement does not make it seem any better... I REALLY don't like the idea of being up at 3 in the morning dancing to dubstep with drunken, half-naked women under strobe and/or blacklights. It sound offensive to most, if not all, of my senses, depending on the amount of physical contact involved and how intense the scent of alcohol and various other substances is.

That still doesn't answer my question, though: what does dubstep make one feel? What emotions does dubstep inspire in you, good sir?

I'm hesitant to use the term "dubstep" because im not 100% sure that counts as dubstep in some cases...

but puely electronic music can evoke emotion/meaning (I'm guess my favorite tracks dont fall under dubstep)


my absolute favorite...never gets old

this one here actually has context (the video) which adda to it


more glitch mob because they are THAT awsome


for [i/]actual[/i] dubstep


it does have the silly "wubs" but I found it provokes somthing

 

[piinyouri]

That still doesn't answer my question, though: what does dubstep make one feel? What emotions does dubstep inspire in you, good sir?

Fun.
Sometimes that's all I need to feel from music.

 

[Sacman]

When solo parts are "written" and played the same every time... I dunno... but to me it betrays the idea of a solo when it's not made up on the spot... that's why I like J Mascis... cause he plays his guitar solos different literally every time... though there might occasionally be a little part that's the same...<.<

To each their own, I suppose. If a solo is written before hand,(or better yet, just planned) they often have the potential to be mind-blowing because you have time to work out just how to let your music weave into the backing music. Also I thought the idea of solos is to give the spotlight to one musician and making up something on the spot is the idea of improvisation but I suppose I'm just being pedantic

Yeah to me it's not about working it into the song...or even being mind blowing... but to me it's a time of unbridled passionate fury filtered through an instrument without the constraints of other instrumentals getting in the way... that's why solos that are pure fuzz noise or solos that are "technically" unimpressive don't bother me in the slightest...<.<

 

[repeating integers]

and concept albums (although I can still like songs off a concept album). I mean, I like the IDEA of a concept album, but hardly anyone ever does it correctly. They usually end up being completely random songs with vaguely similar/related lyrics. I think the only concept albums I've liked are done by Dream Theater

Try "A Thousand Suns" by Linkin Park. A concept album about war, corruption and the atomic bomb with great thought given to presentation (like sequencing and production) and lyrics. Caused a massive split straight down the middle of fans and critics - between those that understood it and loved it, and those that only looked at albums as collections of songs rather than a whole. Also, it sounds very, very little like "normal" Linkin Park (nothing remotely metal about it, for starters).

The full thing:

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This is something that I've been thinking about for a while, actually: BASS AND BEAT DO NOT A GOOD SONG MAKE. There needs to be melody. Feeling. Emotion. Meaning. I can't think of a single recent song that makes me feel at all. It's also why I don't get why people like dubstep. Like, what's the appeal to it? It's all focused on odd unnatural sounds and deep bass. I mean, what sort of mood is it trying to put me in? Am I supposed to be angry, sad, happy or something else?

Hmm, recent music with feeling? Try these:

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All different kinds of feeling in there.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Wow, ok, this might be a long list.

1. People confusing dubstep with electro, or DnB. Especially when this means people who dislike "dubstep" automatically dismiss actual dubstep artists who sound nothing like those mainstream producers
2. People using any electronic subgenre (e.g. Trance, Techno) as a word for electronic music in general
3. Screamo being confused with metal/hardcore in general
4. Really overproduced, breakdown filled metalcore (and these bands' fans)
5. People who equate popularity with quality
6. Every single fucking youtube comment on any music video ever, especially "if you don't like it, why did you listen to it???" (that one is just so stupid ugh)
7. Metalheads who blanket believe all other genres (especially Hip Hop) are shit
8. People who blanket believe that metal is shit
9. Bands who in every single pre-album release interview bullshit that "this is our best album yet!!!!"
10. Bands who pretend they're doing something creative or different but keep shitting out the same old dull crap they've been doing for years
11. People who dismiss all electronic music for being "soulless" or some other crap
12. The music industry

I could go on

Already seen quite a few of these in this thread

 

[Thaliur]

What I can't stand in music is mostly women screaming nonsense out of tune (I am looking at you, Katy, Christina, Rihanna and actually about 90% of the RnB genre!)

?

Katy is a triumph of applied autotune, and keeps her screeching to a minimum, and Rihanna doesn't fit your peeve in the slightest.

(Christina does, although that's her entire schtick.)

Then maybe we have different tresholds for screaming. All I ever hear in Rihanna's songs is whiny screaming, the worst being "Russian Roulette".
And Katy Perry... Well, she is autotuned, but still screams apparently out of tune (or in tune, and the tune is just awful), like in "Firework"

Yes, I heard these two songs often enough to even know their names. I stopped using radio now.

 

[AnarchistFish]

This is something that I've been thinking about for a while, actually: BASS AND BEAT DO NOT A GOOD SONG MAKE. There needs to be melody. Feeling. Emotion. Meaning. I can't think of a single recent song that makes me feel at all. It's also why I don't get why people like dubstep. Like, what's the appeal to it? It's all focused on odd unnatural sounds and deep bass. I mean, what sort of mood is it trying to put me in? Am I supposed to be angry, sad, happy or something else?

Yeah this already ticks two of what I said (maybe I get pissed off too easily).

Listen to this dubstep song and tell me it's emotionless.

 

[AnarchistFish]

I do listen to some screamo songs, but that's only cause the riffs are good.

That's odd cos screamo isn't known for its great riffs.

Also, I dislike any rap I've heard thus far, it's just a person talking.

Come on this is just silly. The beats and production are a huge part, as well as the power of the rhythm and how it interacts with the lyrics.

Oh, and all dubstep. All of it.

Noooo guy-with-the-stephen-fry-avatar-who-usually-comes-across-as-pretty-cool
Don't fall for it
Not all dubstep is wubwubwub-y.

Unless you actually do hate all dubstep. In which case, oh well.

(I wonder how many times I've linked Burial on this site...)

 

[Vault101]

Try "A Thousand Suns" by Linkin Park. A concept album about war, corruption and the atomic bomb with great thought given to presentation (like sequencing and production) and lyrics. Caused a massive split straight down the middle of fans and critics - between those that understood it and loved it, and those that only looked at albums as collections of songs rather than a whole. Also, it sounds very, very little like "normal" Linkin Park (nothing remotely metal about it, for starters).

The full thing:

<youtube=mvyJBdXXxDY>

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I actually really liked Thousand suns..didn't get all the hate

and now I associate "The Catalyst" with Mass effect 3....for obvious reasons (seriously it totally fits)

 

[Kerboom]

Also, I dislike any rap I've heard thus far, it's just a person talking.

Come on this is just silly. The beats and production are a huge part, as well as the power of the rhythm and how it interacts with the lyrics.

Let me rephrase then.

It's just someone talking with what is almost always one or more synths in the background.

Seriously, I wish people would learn to fucking play instruments rather than getting a keyboard and turning it to the "drums" setting.

Honestly, considering all 50 Cent and Jay-Z and all those other guys talk about is either money or bitches and hoes, they can fuck right off. They have far too much money for what they do.

 

[Vault101]

Creepy screamo/growling instead of singing. I will never understand why people would listen to something they can't understand and sounds silly.

This. A million times this.

Also, I dislike any rap I've heard thus far, it's just a person talking. If I wanted that, I'd listen to poetry readings (and those can actually be pretty cool).

people talking whole maintain flow and rhythm with the music (production can make or break a rap song)

 

[Vault101]

Also, I dislike any rap I've heard thus far, it's just a person talking.

Come on this is just silly. The beats and production are a huge part, as well as the power of the rhythm and how it interacts with the lyrics.

Let me rephrase then.

It's just someone talking with what is almost always one or more synths in the background.

Seriously, I wish people would learn to fucking play instruments rather than getting a keyboard and turning it to the "drums" setting.

Honestly, considering all 50 Cent and Jay-Z and all those other guys talk about is either money or bitches and hoes, they can fuck right off. They have far too much money for what they do.

*sigh*

1."learn to play an instrumant!" is bullshit for a number of reasons..mainly because your missing the point entirely, music does not require instruments that need to be "played" in the tradition sense of the word...talent is talent whatever the medium

2. production actually takes skill to sound good

3. if youre listening to Jay z and 50cents songs about money bitches and hoes then obviously thats the problem..your not listening to stuff with more skill/better subject matter

I also get the impression that your veiw on rap is coming from the "popular" stuff

 

[repeating integers]

Try "A Thousand Suns" by Linkin Park. A concept album about war, corruption and the atomic bomb with great thought given to presentation (like sequencing and production) and lyrics. Caused a massive split straight down the middle of fans and critics - between those that understood it and loved it, and those that only looked at albums as collections of songs rather than a whole. Also, it sounds very, very little like "normal" Linkin Park (nothing remotely metal about it, for starters).

The full thing:

<youtube=mvyJBdXXxDY>

.

I actually really liked Thousand suns..didn't get all the hate

and now I associate "The Catalyst" with Mass effect 3....for obvious reasons (seriously it totally fits)

I got all the hate, but just disagreed with it. LP are currently doing a Radiohead and intentionally ditching about half their fanbase (presumably the stereotypical 13-year-old pseudo-metalhead) - the only ones left will be the ones that can handle change, with more varied music tastes. I approve, personally.

 

[Kerboom]

Also, I dislike any rap I've heard thus far, it's just a person talking.

Come on this is just silly. The beats and production are a huge part, as well as the power of the rhythm and how it interacts with the lyrics.

Let me rephrase then.

It's just someone talking with what is almost always one or more synths in the background.

Seriously, I wish people would learn to fucking play instruments rather than getting a keyboard and turning it to the "drums" setting.

Honestly, considering all 50 Cent and Jay-Z and all those other guys talk about is either money or bitches and hoes, they can fuck right off. They have far too much money for what they do.

*sigh*

1."learn to play an instrumant!" is bullshit for a number of reasons..mainly because your missing the point entirely, music does not require instruments that need to be "played" in the tradition sense of the word...talent is talent whatever the medium

2. production actually takes skill to sound good

3. if youre listening to Jay z and 50cents songs about money bitches and hoes then obviously thats the problem..your not listening to stuff with more skill/better subject matter

I also get the impression that your veiw on rap is coming from the "popular" stuff

1: I don't describe it as "music" unless it has a "musical" instrument.

2: If you say so, but I never really said anything about that, so ok?

3: If I want subject matter, I'll go to poetry. It's still going to be some guy sitting there talking, and I'd much rather read poetry than listen to some guy pretend to be talented.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Also, I dislike any rap I've heard thus far, it's just a person talking.

Come on this is just silly. The beats and production are a huge part, as well as the power of the rhythm and how it interacts with the lyrics.

Let me rephrase then.

It's just someone talking with what is almost always one or more synths in the background.

Seriously, I wish people would learn to fucking play instruments rather than getting a keyboard and turning it to the "drums" setting.

Honestly, considering all 50 Cent and Jay-Z and all those other guys talk about is either money or bitches and hoes, they can fuck right off. They have far too much money for what they do.

So those are the only people kind of people you base the genre off of? Well there's your problem.

 

[Vault101]

1: I don't describe it as "music" unless it has a "musical" instrument.

and there your wrong....or if not that a little closed minded

[quote/]2: If you say so, but I never really said anything about that, so ok? [/quote]

usually the refusal to call something "music" for arbitrary reasons imply s you think its "inferior" in some way... maybe this isn't what you ment, ok then

[quote/]3: If I want subject matter, I'll go to poetry. It's still going to be some guy sitting there talking, and I'd much rather read poetry than listen to some guy pretend to be talented.[/B][/quote]

you don't have to like rap...but

subject matter aside do you think the person who wrote the poetry has some kind of talent?

if so then why not the guy who not only wrote it...but delivered it with flow and rhyming skill?

 

[Vault101]

I got all the hate, but just disagreed with it. LP are currently doing a Radiohead and intentionally ditching about half their fanbase (presumably the stereotypical 13-year-old pseudo-metalhead) - the only ones left will be the ones that can handle change, with more varied music tastes. I approve, personally.

that's a very interesting way of looking at it