Which genre of music do you like the LEAST?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

I did this poll more than a year ago, but I'm not sure if I ever saved it to my journal or what. Anyhow, I just feel like askin' everyone which genre is LEAST likable. I have a hard time choosing which genre I like the best, but when it comes to the least, I'm torn between smooth "jazz" and modern "country/"western."

Anyhow, what sucks the most for YOU? Why?

ETA: I know Hip-Hop and Rap are separate genres, but for the purposes of this poll, they're rolled into one. Sorreh!

[MrScorpio]

1. Not a big country fan

Unless it's Willie

[RetroLounge]

2. I went with Rap/Hip-Hop but I'm conflicted

as it is not really something you can consider music to start with...

:hide:

RL

[WritingIsMyReligion]

3. Oooh, ouch.

:P

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Don't even start.

x(

[RetroLounge]

68. Word...

:hi:

RL

[Omphaloskepsis]

19. You need a bigger wall..

I made one for you..

[Starbucks Anarchist]

37. We need to educate you, Grandpa.

:hide: :rofl:

[RetroLounge]

67. Yeah, sonny, when I was your age

I had good teeth too...

:rofl:

RL

[Starbucks Anarchist]

71. My teeth are not of this earth.

My corpse will have great teeth. :rofl:

[triguy46]

4. Did you just read my mind while I was in the restroom?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

5. I don't think so...why?

:evilgrin:

[triguy46]

6. I was pondering the issue, considering a DUL poll n/t

[WritingIsMyReligion]

7. Hahaha, that's funny.

:D

[triguy46]

8. Funny? Weird, otherworldly, a convergence of brain waves...

A very sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooww day at work.

[bigwillq]

10. Country (nt)

[LSK]

11. Modern Country

Go see the movie "Shut up and Sing"

[WritingIsMyReligion]

17. 'S about the hate the Dixie Chicks faced, right?

:grr:

[LSK]

26. yes

I used to be a country fan. USED TO.

[Bjornsdotter]

21. Great Documentary

....a must see.

Cheers

[ghostsofgiants]

12. That's not a list of genres, that's a combination of genres and eras.

Hard to choose though.

[Redbear]

13. I voted for modern country.

but modern pop deserves a mention as well.

All that boy band/Rick Astley/Rico Suave/Celine Dion/Marc Anthony/Mrs. Marc Anthony/Brandy/Enrique Iglesias/Usher/Nick Lachey/Christina/Britney/Avril/Beyonce type stuff.

[Midlodemocrat]

14. Jazz in all forms.

:puke:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

23. I'm just curious as to why that is, Midlo.

I know why people don't like smooth "jazz," but I'm not sure why people could hate swing or whatever. Not to say that one couldn't; I've just rarely, if ever, heard of it. Too chaotic? Too pretentious? Too boring? Too...whatever?

:hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

34. You rich philistines are all the same!

:P

[Bake]

15. Anybody who says "bluegrass" goes on my Ignore list!

Love that high lonesome sound ....

Bake

[Bjornsdotter]

22. Bluegrass

....there, I said it.

Actually I like it, just wanted to yank your chain.

Cheers

[Bake]

27. This is the sound of me ignoring the chain yank.

Sorry, but I had to keep my word ...

:rofl:

Bake

[Gormy Cuss]

54. That's Bluegr- ass. Ugh.

Whiniest vocals on the face of the planet and instrumentals that make less sense than that Irish crap.







Gormy Cuss, testing bake's chain-yank-ometer

[Bake]

87. Don't get me staaaaaaaarted!!

I'll admit that SOME bluegrass vocals are an "acquired taste" (Monroe was pretty nasally). But the instrumentals??? Holy crap! There's more virtuosity in bluegrass on five or six different instruments than in all of rock and roll, which is pretty much limited to guitar and ... well, guitar.

You wanna hear some virtuosity and non-whiney vocals? Give a listen to some New Grass Revival ...

Yank-o-meter indeed!!

:-)

Bake

[LeftyFingerPop]

16. This is a good poll...

I am a long time Grateful Dead fan.

But, it is funny how your musical tastes can change. I have been watching Dead videos on Youtube, and find myself being more and more turned off by their music of the 80's and 90's (incidently the period in which I saw the most live shows), and now being more drawn to the incredibly complicated music that they were capable of in the late 60's and early 70's.

I never thought I would like Country...I am starting to now. Same with Hip - Hop.

A lot of Classic Rock, which I have traditionally liked, is now turning me off.

BTW - I voted "Smooth Jazz" in this poll.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

20. I used to find "smooth jazz" acceptable as long as it was taken as a different genre (not jazz).

Now I have negative respect for it, no matter how you frame it. Lookit how many times Miles changed the genre of jazz; lookit how influential Bird was in such a short time; lookit how Trane gave the tenor sax new purpose; lookit how so many jazzers of all stripes were honest musicians. Now look at the type of "music" so many people now associate with "jazz," and cry to think that none of them are that honest or at least that creative.

:grr:

[no name no slogan]

18. Opera and/or musicals

Cannot stand either one of those.

Otherwise, I'll listen to almost anything-- as my music collection will attest.

Oh, except for "new country". That stuff just plain sucks.

[Deja Q]

43. I agree. Opera, musicals, and new country suck - and not in a good way.

:spray:

[Generic Brad]

65. I will never appreciate opera

I don't wait for the fat lady to sing. I don't wait for anyone to sing.

[Generic Brad]

66. I will never appreciate opera

I don't wait for the fat lady to sing. I don't wait for anyone to sing.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

80. I'll agree with that.

That music is about as vacant and meaningless as it gets. I f'ing hate musicals.

[SeattleGirl]

24. Headbanger ball stuff.

Gak, I can't stand it!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

25. I'm not a headbanger, either.

:crazy:

[name not needed]

28. Modern country.

The other shit doesn't put me in a rage.

[DS1]

29. SALSA!!!

[Left Is Write]

30. Wait....

You have two different jazz categories, but you put all pop music 90s and beyond in the same category as rap and hip-hop? There's a lot of pop from the last 17 years that is nothing at all like rap or hip-hop, so to lump them all together doesn't really work.

I'm not a fan of rap and hip-hop, but there's tons of pop music from 1990 to the present that I like.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

31. Trying to avoid controversy over lumping "smooth jazz" in with "classic jazz."

The two under no circumstances deserve to be yoked together; it's insulting to any jazzer or jazz fan to suggest such. I didn't think about the whole rap/hip-hop/pop dichotomy so much, since it seems like most people who don't like one don't like any of them. That was a mistake, I see now. Sorry for that, but I'm not fucking around with the already-effed-up poll to fix it.

[Left Is Write]

33. I completely agree that the two categories of jazz you have shouldn't be lumped together.

But that's also my point about lumping "rap/hip-hop" with "modern pop". They're not even remotely the same.

[Midlodemocrat]

39. No, they're not. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

[cemaphonic]

32. Chinese opera

Most other forms/genres of music that I know of, I can find something I like within it. But Chinese opera is fingernails on chalkboard. It is the wost music ever.

[AndreaCG]

61. That reminds me - Bollywood musicals!

That is, indeed, worse than opera.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

35. Smooth jazz.

My main favorite genres are classic jazz (ragtime to fusion), rock (50s to present), and hip-hop (old school, underground and some mainstream stuff), but I can find at least a couple of artists I like in almost any genre/subgenre except for smooth jazz.

[Nikia]

36. One of the restaurants that we went to around here (rural Wisconsin)

Was playing country music. It wasn't Willie Nelson. It did not seem to be contemporary either. It was all slow and depressing and sounded as thought the artist was drunk.
I really did not like that music, although I am not sure if it would be classified as classic or modern country.

[leftofthedial]

41. my dog d-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ied

and I wrecked my truck
my woman l-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ied
and now I don't give a darn

[lost-in-nj]

38. I dislike Jazz

in any way, shape or form.....
and my Dad was a jazz drummer

LOL



lost

[Starbucks Anarchist]

40. Was he famous?

Still cool either way. :hi:

[lost-in-nj]

42. no

he played for Glen or Artie Miller (not sure which one) when he was in town...
just a jam though... At the club my Dad played at
It was called the Fountain I actually think its still open
Its also where he met my Mom......
He played in a club where Jackie Gleason was performing....
my Dad bought him a cup of coffee....
He was in the army band here in NJ, I think it was Fort Dix, kinda like
a USO type thing......


lost

[Starbucks Anarchist]

44. Cool!

[otherlander]

45. I hate smooth jazz.

It's like jazz with its brains taken out and used as a polish, the end product being a smooth, glossy brainless thing with a cracked skull.

THE GHOST OF COLTRANE WILL SMITE YOU!!!

[Initech]

46. Adult contemporary (Celine Dion, Yanni, Michael Bolton, John Tesh, etc)

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Capn Sunshine]

51. You got it

:thumbsup:

[Initech]

55. And in Orange County, it's played fucking everywhere.

Restaurants, malls, supermarkets... I get to the point where I just start tuning that shit out. Thank god for CD players and iPods.

[AndreaCG]

47. Opera. The sopranos go so high they hurt my ears

However, I can listen to choral music with no problem.. I think while the sopranos in a chorus may hit notes that are as high they don't trill in the same way.

I was even in the chorus in college, it was worth a credit a semester. At the time I could hit a B below high C. Then one day I just lost an octave or more off my high voice. Now I am very careful when I sing in public cause I never quite know when my voice will crack.. : (

[NNadir]

48. Opera.

I just can't get into it.

[dysfunctional press]

49. i absolutely detest BOTH kinds of non-music- country AND western.

but why is "modern pop" included with rap and hip-hop...?

there's LOTS of great 'modern pop' that has no connection whatsoever to hip-hop and rap.

[jobycom]

50. I don't dislike genres, I decide each song on its own merit

and one day I'll hear a smooth jazz "song" that has merit.

[opiate69]

52. Indie/Garage/Punk

"I know.. we'll spend $100,000 making this sound like we recorded it for $100... and who needs song structure or key signatures?.. oh, and then, we'll all act as if we've just created the most important musical masterpiece the world has ever seen.. and all the idiot music critics from Spin, etc will think we're Gods!"

[Xipe Totec]

53. Can't decide between Country or Western nt

[hyphenate]

56. I really don't mind most music

And I wouldn't even mind rap and hip-hop except for some of the lyrics. If many recall, Eminem did the one (Mosh?) just before the 2004 election which was pretty powerful.

In some of my "want list" lately, I've been downloading some old stuff, from old Country artists like Ray Price, Jim Reeves and others. Their voices were so rich that I doubt few artists in any genre can match them.

I also have problems with some C&W artists who are rabid repubs. They try to make themselves out to be the only patriots in the country. :eyes:

[SoxFan]

57. Nu Metal

Sorry guys, but low-tuned guitars, one chord, and a vocal style that sounds like a baboon with dry heaves does not equal music.

[mitchum]

58. Indie rock which is neither

[Dervill Crow]

59. Smooth jazz gets on my nerves.

Contemporary Christian or soft rock make me crazy, but smooth jazz makes me want to :puke:

[ForrestGump]

60. My vote had to go with Classic Rock 'n Roll...

I misread the subject line, dammit, and thought the question was reagrding which music I liked most, of the choices offered... :mad:

[many a good man]

62. Everything except

POLKA!!

[mainegreen]

63. Went with Rap/Hip Hop/Pop as it is the most commercialized, and hence has the most crap % wise.

[Fox Mulder]

64. Modern Country.

:puke:

[Radical Activist]

69. Dance/Bubble Gum Pop

From any decade.

[WCGreen]

70. I think the music that I detest the most is music that is made

strictly for money...

Nothing wrong with getting paid, but you have to admit that a lot music that is out there is good but lacks passion...

And that usually occurs when the motivation for writing a song is the pocketbook and not the heart...

[greendog]

72. Christian Rock

:scared: :scared: :scared:

[Rabrrrrrr]

73. I'd say rap/hip-hop, but since you're limiting this poll to music, I'm with DS1: Salsa and merengue

[RetroLounge]

81. "but since you're limiting this poll to music"

:thumbsup:

RL

[RushIsRot]

74. Gospel, Christian Rock and most Country/Western.

[LibDemAlways]

75. I hate "country" and whatever the genre is that my

teenage daughter likes. I don't know what you'd call it, but it consists of a lot of tuneless noise and people screaming unintelligibly.

[ellisonz]

91. It's probably emo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_(music)

[Alexander]

76. Smooth jazz is a blight upon the universe itself.

I like some rap songs and some country songs, but I absolutely cannot stand anything smooth jazz.

If all smooth jazz music winked out of existence tomorrow it wouldn't be soon enough.

[Oeditpus Rex]

77. Opera

I just don't get singing a tragic (usually) story in a language and voice nobody can understand. :shrug:

Although my latest find (thanks to Ariana Celeste) is symphonic metal, which is basically metal with a diva, and I freakin' love it. :headbang:

[laylah]

78. Opera gack! n/m

[unpossibles]

79. call me crazy, but I honestly can think of at least one song/artist

that I love and one I hate in every genre. It depends. Granted some genres tend to suck more, such as modern Pop-Country, but even those have a couple of decent moments. I think the biggest problem with new country is that the old country singers like Cash, Willie, Waylon, Patty, Hank, etc. all knew they were going to hell and were not afraid to go in new/different directions. The new stuff is mostly "funny" pablum created for people who are afraid of new ideas.

There is some great hip-hop, acid jazz, and rap out there if you give it a chance and are patient sorting through it. Same with bluegrass and even techno, although most "diva techno" I'm not into much, but I can at least appreciate that it's more for dancing than listening to.

My favorite genres are old reggae/old ska/old rock steady, rock, old punk, and 60's soul, but there is so much great music out there in every genre that I can't think of one I hate across the board, although as those genres become more integrated into pop culture they tend to lose me a little more (which is why they all say "old" in front of them). Hell, I don't care for a lot of prog rock, but even that has some real gems like King Crimson and old Genesis.

[B3Nut]

83. Yup...heck, I don't care for rap as a rule

but I used to love old Run DMC (some of that was funny!) and I really like Michael Franti and Spearhead. Basically it's the overwrought corporate-commercial schlock that dominates rap and pop radio that drives me up a wall. I hate the teen pop shit too...My Humps should be a hanging offense... ;)

Eminem can be kinda whiny but "Mosh" was a powerful track...he's not a fan of bush so he's OK in my book. ;)

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[unpossibles]

84. exactly. If anything, the common denominator in bad music, imo

seems to be corporate-suckup pop music of any genre, whether it's "punk" pop, "country" pop, or "rap" pop. At least the crappy dance pop is honest. :)

[SteppingRazor]

82. I understand why Rap and Hip-Hop are grouped together, but why grouped with modern pop?

What in the world do 50 Cent and Kelly Clarkson have to do with one another? :shrug:


If modern pop was its own category, I might check it, but not when it's grouped with rap, which is a pretty kick-ass genre in many respects. As is, I gotta go with smooth jazz.

[MAGICBULLET]

85. Musicals and Opera

I must say, becuase they give me anxiety attacks.

I'm saddened by so many Hip Hop haters. Most of you have no idea how much it has opened doors to other musical genres I would've probabaly never been exposed to otherwise. Claiming it's not music or art is just a slap in the face. I know, it's just opnion, but I just had to say.

[montanto]

86. I could puke when I hear

me some kenny g. My wife once said he held the record for the longest note ever played and i said, yeah, it was his first album.

[Shell Beau]

88. disco

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

89. You just HAD to mention disco ...

I had blissfully forgotten all about disco, and you had to remind me. AAAARRRRRRGGH!

:grrr:

:rofl:

[mvd]

90. Hmmm.. probably rap and death metal tie

I also don't like smooth jazz, Christian pop and rock (I like the more subtle Christian groups like Eisley, Sixpence None The Richer, and Paramore - also like gospel and Church music,) soulless adult contemporary and country, pure techno, opera, and dance that's so plastic that you can't get moving.

[NaturalHigh]

92. Hip-hop and rap usually make my ears bleed.

Most country isn't much better, but I've learned to tolerate a little since my kids like it.

[ellisonz]

93. To those that said hip-hop/rap:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2TiMtDhiJ2o
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8OFR4L2tHe4

[unpossibles]

94. actually, I thought of one that I can't stand much anymore

metal.

Other than a small handful of bands, metal is a joke. Or should be.

:)

[Magrittes Pipe]

95. Pretentious, "clever," quasi-rock made as a substitute for sex...

...by annoying white guys who never met a woman who could compare to mama, so they had to turn to the aural masturbation of the recording studio.






You know, like Steely Dan.

[Sock Puppet]

96. Are you in Steely Dan?

:D

[slj0101]

98. He's Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.

[asthmaticeog]

99. Nah, he's Walter "John Oates" Becker.

[Joe Fields]

100. I like "skunk!"

[Joe Fields]

97. definitely C(rap) music and hip-hop....

really don't know why they even call it music.

[eyepaddle]

101. I wanted to go with reggae, but now that I'm not

in college it isn't forced on me anymore. Oddly enough, I generally had a good time at reggae concerts, but sitting around listening to it on a stereo, ouch.

Double ouch.

I guess these days it'd be hip hop/rap, but that's because that is the stuff you get to hear against your will (especially in the really loud boom cars).

If something else was really popular, that'd be the one I'd go with.

[Lost4words]

102. I call it "Glitter Country"