What music would you outlaw if you could?

[Archae]

For me, polkas.
I HATE HATE HATE THEM!!!

[Ava]

1. R&B or whatever it's called

dont get me wrong, i like some rap and hip-hop, but most R&B stuff i can't stand (like usher and all of those artists.)

[mvd]

16. I'm the opposite

I like some R&B (Alicia Keys, the late Aaliyah, and yes, some Usher,) but dislike most pure hip-hop. I wouldn't ban any style, except for maybe artists like Michael Bolton attempting swing - lol.

[ZombieNixon]

2. Elevator music.

Or anything you hear in a grocery store! :banghead:

[tjwmason]

7. I agree.

But with an important qualification:

It's the playing of the music in lifts/supermarkets which is being banned - not the music itself. If there are folk out there (please don't let ths hypothetical be true) who enjoy listening to it, then they should be free to play it in the confines of their houses/cars/headphones - they should even be free to hold concerts of it in suitably hired halls.

[ZombieNixon]

10. Yes, but the houses/cars/headphones must be suitably insulated,

so as not to pollute the surrounding environment with the infernal noise. x(

[kwassa]

3. Rap or hiphop or whatever it is called

dont get me wrong, i like some R&B, but most hiphop stuff i can't stand .

[GOPisEvil]

4. None. There's a fan for everything. I don't have to like it, but you can.

This is my answer for the sports and TV threads too. I don't like telling people what they should and shouldn't like.

Edited to add the TV thread.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Rap, hiphop, salsa

:puke:

[johnnie]

6. Nothing

I like all types of music, just not all songs. I'll just put it this way, without the Yin there would be no Yang and you would never be able to enjoy the music you like as much without knowing about the music you think blows. :)

[hfojvt]

8. polkas are alot of fun

I love two-stepping.

I certainly would not outlaw music by genre, but specifically

1. The Chicken dance "song" - na, na, na-na, na-na-na gets stuck in my head for hours if I do not get away from it fast enough
2. Friends in low places - very catchy tune about getting drunk to forget the heartache of a lost love which for some reason gets played at EVERY WEDDING RECEPTION.
3. The Dance - very whiny slow piece about a prom dance with a date who later breaks his heart. Again, played at weddings for some reason. The stupid line "our lives are better left to chance. I could have missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss. the. dance." is just moronic. No, you dipwad, if I had known that Susan was gonna use me and abuse me I could have perhaps gone to the dance with Linda or Becky.
4. The electric slide - travesty of a "song"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4841737
5. Start me up - I just hate that song, and the Stones too.
6. Almost every song "sung" by Rod Stewart - dude's voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
7. Yore cheatin' heart et. al. - For Hank Williams, see above.
8. Any music that encourages bigotry, hatred, violence, or line dancing.
Okay I put line dancing in there for fun, but I hate line dancing. It is dancing that makes a partner, or potential partners, superfluous. Line dancing, like masturbation, should only be done in the privacy of your own home.

[Initech]

9. Adult contemporary

You know - crap like Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, Kenny G, etc... :puke:

[Fox Mulder]

11. I wouldn't outlaw any.

Believe it or not, there are people who like the music you don't like. I know of a few people who don't mind listening to elevator music. I don't, though. :puke:

[bumblebee1]

12. I agree with you, Fox.

I don't believe in censorship of any kind. Self censoring in one thing: government censorship is an entirely different ballgame.

[NewWaveChick1981]

13. Rap, hip hop, twangy country, industrial, Yoko Ono, "easy listening",

saccharin pop (a la Air Supply :puke: ), and anything American Idol puts out.

There, I said it! :P

[HughBeaumont]

14. Kid Rock.

Can't sing, can't rap, can't write songs for shite, has not a nerve for originality in his entire frame. He's everything wrong with modern rock music times 50. I think the only explanation for his runaway success is his audience, who all seem to share the same brain.

"If you don't like it, that's no reason to ban . . ." OH WHATEVAH! Just play along.

[tuvor]

15. Reggae.

There. I said it. I'm a closet reggae-hater, with VERY few exceptions (and Bob Marley surely ain't it).