Working through a shed-load of genuinely free music I've bought/download from the likes of Amazon et al, I'm having to be quite brutal about what I keep or ever likely to listen to again.
But good grief, Black Metal, Death Metal,Thrash Metal or whatever it calls itself, that stuff is pure crap; same guitar sounds, drumming, guy screaming. A 5 seconds listen tells you exactly what the whole track is like.
So my question is, if there was one genre of 'music' you could choose ban completely, which would it be ?
Rap is crap.
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 20, 2012, 07:41:09 PM
Rap is crap.
I'd rather listen to Public Enemy than Shitgoat.
Quote from: mongers on September 20, 2012, 07:38:40 PM
So my question is, if there was one genre of 'music' you could choose ban completely, which would it be ?
Two genres: Country AND Western.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 20, 2012, 07:42:22 PM
Quote from: mongers on September 20, 2012, 07:38:40 PM
So my question is, if there was one genre of 'music' you could choose ban completely, which would it be ?
Two genres: Country AND Western.
Who gets Taylor Swift? :licklips:
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 20, 2012, 07:41:54 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 20, 2012, 07:41:09 PM
Rap is crap.
I'd rather listen to Public Enemy than Shitgoat.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was one of the dozens that I shit-canned, appropriately. :cool:
Also, I'd like to have that 'Gotye' guy thrown into the sun. Or however its spelled.
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 20, 2012, 07:47:24 PM
Also, I'd like to have that 'Gotye' guy thrown into the sun. Or however its spelled.
Just wait until you have to put up with your teenage daughters 'popular music' tastes. :P
Quote from: mongers on September 20, 2012, 07:50:46 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 20, 2012, 07:47:24 PM
Also, I'd like to have that 'Gotye' guy thrown into the sun. Or however its spelled.
Just wait until you have to put up with your teenage daughters 'popular music' tastes. :P
I put up with my goddaughter liking Justin Timberlake. I can survive anything.
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 20, 2012, 07:55:41 PM
Quote from: mongers on September 20, 2012, 07:50:46 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 20, 2012, 07:47:24 PM
Also, I'd like to have that 'Gotye' guy thrown into the sun. Or however its spelled.
Just wait until you have to put up with your teenage daughters 'popular music' tastes. :P
I put up with my goddaughter liking Justin Timberlake. I can survive anything.
Well I guessed that, but there's what another 8-10 years of musical degeneration to go; Do any of us really know just how ghastly pop music will be in 2020 ? :unsure:
Prog rock. :zzz:
tainted!
Also I would ban this new crap called dubstep. It actually makes me physically ill whenever I hear it. Every time this local car commercial comes on the ***WUB WUB WUB***gives me a headache.
Quote from: FunkMonk on September 20, 2012, 08:15:07 PM
Also I would ban this new crap called dubstep. It actually makes me physically ill whenever I hear it. Every time this local car commercial comes on the ***WUB WUB WUB***gives me a headache.
I still haven't figured out what a 'skillrex' is.
Quote from: katmai on September 20, 2012, 08:00:25 PM
Prog rock. :zzz:
Just for that, I'm gonna play the entire Tales From Topagraphic Oceans. A double album by Yes with only four songs. :D
Quote from: Josephus on September 20, 2012, 09:08:40 PM
Quote from: katmai on September 20, 2012, 08:00:25 PM
Prog rock. :zzz:
Just for that, I'm gonna play the entire Tales From Topagraphic Oceans. A double album by Yes with only four songs. :D
Should prison rape him with Fates Warning.
Quote from: mongers on September 20, 2012, 07:38:40 PM
So my question is, if there was one genre of 'music' you could choose ban completely, which would it be ?
Pop music.
It's all the same, no evolution in the genre, the cycle keeps repeating itself. So, keep one or two songs, ban the rest.
Quote from: katmai on September 20, 2012, 08:00:25 PM
Prog rock. :zzz:
That's a good idea.
80s Rock Metal, you know, Poison & the like.
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 20, 2012, 09:31:00 PM
Quote from: katmai on September 20, 2012, 08:00:25 PM
Prog rock. :zzz:
That's a good idea.
80s Rock Metal, you know, Poison & the like.
Prog Rock /= Hair Metal, man. Get your subgenres straight.
I think he liking my idea, but stil adding his own :unsure:
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 20, 2012, 07:42:22 PM
Quote from: mongers on September 20, 2012, 07:38:40 PM
So my question is, if there was one genre of 'music' you could choose ban completely, which would it be ?
Two genres: Country AND Western.
Country and Western, while not my cup of tea, is a decent enough genre. Modern country, though, is just crap--it's essentially watered-down MOR pop-rock.
I've become a lot more tolerant of other people's abhorrent music tastes over the years. Nevertheless, I would like to ban Volksmusik. And Schlager.
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 20, 2012, 07:47:24 PM
Also, I'd like to have that 'Gotye' guy thrown into the sun. Or however its spelled.
"sun" is correct.
Death metal.
Quote from: Jaron on September 20, 2012, 10:43:36 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 20, 2012, 07:47:24 PM
Also, I'd like to have that 'Gotye' guy thrown into the sun. Or however its spelled.
"sun" is correct.
Literally laughed out loud in front of my students. :lmfao:
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 20, 2012, 11:35:07 PM
Quote from: Jaron on September 20, 2012, 10:43:36 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 20, 2012, 07:47:24 PM
Also, I'd like to have that 'Gotye' guy thrown into the sun. Or however its spelled.
"sun" is correct.
Literally laughed out loud in front of my students. :lmfao:
I'm alone but I did bust out laughing too.
Rap.
Growl metal is horrible but unlike rap it is easily avoidable and doesn't sneak its way onto otherwise decent tracks.
Quote from: The Brain on September 21, 2012, 12:07:46 AM
Rap.
Growl metal is horrible but unlike rap it is easily avoidable and doesn't sneak its way onto otherwise decent tracks.
I thought you wee an eminem fan. Is he not rap, or are you just willing to sacrifice him to get rid of the rest of the crap?
Quote from: sbr on September 21, 2012, 12:09:21 AM
Quote from: The Brain on September 21, 2012, 12:07:46 AM
Rap.
Growl metal is horrible but unlike rap it is easily avoidable and doesn't sneak its way onto otherwise decent tracks.
I thought you wee an eminem fan. Is he not rap, or are you just willing to sacrifice him to get rid of the rest of the crap?
You are correct; I am ready to sacrifice him.
I dont know...what is the horrible generic modern pop stuff they play in clubs?
Not pop as a whole, that would be mad and involve killing off a lot of good music, but...that stuff.
Quote from: Tyr on September 21, 2012, 12:14:19 AM
I dont know...what is the horrible generic modern pop stuff they play in clubs?
Not pop as a whole, that would be mad and involve killing off a lot of good music, but...that stuff.
Dance music?
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 20, 2012, 07:41:09 PM
Rap is crap.
:angry:
Anyway, why would I want to ban any music?
Quote from: garbon on September 21, 2012, 12:23:45 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 20, 2012, 07:41:09 PM
Rap is crap.
:angry:
Anyway, why would I want to ban any music?
Or, if you do want to, why limit yourself to just one genre?
Quote from: The Brain on September 21, 2012, 12:13:05 AM
Quote from: sbr on September 21, 2012, 12:09:21 AM
Quote from: The Brain on September 21, 2012, 12:07:46 AM
Rap.
Growl metal is horrible but unlike rap it is easily avoidable and doesn't sneak its way onto otherwise decent tracks.
I thought you wee an eminem fan. Is he not rap, or are you just willing to sacrifice him to get rid of the rest of the crap?
You are correct; I am ready to sacrifice him.
Well I suppose the good of the many outweigh the good of the few, or the one, but I'm not sure I can agree. While most modern rap is terrible there is enough good stuff still out there that I couldn't do it.
For me it would have to be modern "country" music.
Country is great, rap is great, even some metal is great. I would prefer to wield the banhammer on a case by case basis.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 21, 2012, 12:41:55 AM
Country is great, rap is great, even some metal is great. I would prefer to wield the banhammer on a case by case basis.
By "case by case basis" do you mean artist by artist, or song by song? :)
Depends if the artist only makes shitty songs or not.
Quote from: katmai on September 20, 2012, 08:00:25 PM
Prog rock. :zzz:
Brother! :hug:
And I agree with: death metal, doom metal, and whatever-truce-and-morbid-word metal there is out there; rap is awful, too,and modern R&B, or what is called nowadays the music played by Rihanna and the likes.
L.
Considering that Death Metal is a genre with a wide variety of styles from melodic over symphonic to progressive, technical or brutal, I find blanket statements to ban it all as useful as calls to ban all classical music - chamber, orchestral, vocal and opera. :P
Someone said dubstep. I agree.
K-Pop!
Drum 'n' Bass and Jungle.
Some Grime is fairly listenable, however (hell, it even got into the various Olympic ceremonies), so I'll give young folk a pass for now.
Quote from: FunkMonk on September 20, 2012, 08:15:07 PM
Also I would ban this new crap called dubstep. It actually makes me physically ill whenever I hear it. Every time this local car commercial comes on the ***WUB WUB WUB***gives me a headache.
Seconded.
Is David Guetta a genre? If so, him.
Most styles that have been refered here have at least the redeeming quality of having some quality bands/ albuns to their honour.
(Psy) Trance on the other just makes shifts my opinion of Humanity from "live and let live" to "KILL! KILL! BANZAI!". :ph34r:
Quote from: Syt on September 21, 2012, 02:05:17 AM
Considering that Death Metal is a genre with a wide variety of styles from melodic over symphonic to progressive, technical or brutal, I find blanket statements to ban it all as useful as calls to ban all classical music - chamber, orchestral, vocal and opera. :P
Have to agree with the Black Bomber on this. Growl Metal does nothing for me, Scanderhoovians screaming about Satan and burning down churches the same. Still, there is melodic, symphonic, heroic genres that are quite listenable for fans of heavier things.
I don't listen to anything heavier than Sabbath.
Quote from: PDH on September 21, 2012, 08:35:28 AM
Quote from: Syt on September 21, 2012, 02:05:17 AM
Considering that Death Metal is a genre with a wide variety of styles from melodic over symphonic to progressive, technical or brutal, I find blanket statements to ban it all as useful as calls to ban all classical music - chamber, orchestral, vocal and opera. :P
Have to agree with the Black Bomber on this. Growl Metal does nothing for me, Scanderhoovians screaming about Satan and burning down churches the same. Still, there is melodic, symphonic, heroic genres that are quite listenable for fans of heavier things.
I don't. From the outside it all sounds like crap.
Don't think it should be banned though. :)
Quote from: garbon on September 21, 2012, 08:47:09 AM
Quote from: PDH on September 21, 2012, 08:35:28 AM
Quote from: Syt on September 21, 2012, 02:05:17 AM
Considering that Death Metal is a genre with a wide variety of styles from melodic over symphonic to progressive, technical or brutal, I find blanket statements to ban it all as useful as calls to ban all classical music - chamber, orchestral, vocal and opera. :P
Have to agree with the Black Bomber on this. Growl Metal does nothing for me, Scanderhoovians screaming about Satan and burning down churches the same. Still, there is melodic, symphonic, heroic genres that are quite listenable for fans of heavier things.
I don't. From the outside it all sounds like crap.
Don't think it should be banned though. :)
The thing about Death Metal and a lot of other genres is that they are pretty easy to avoid if you don't like them. OTOH, stuff like modern country music (which gets lots of crossover hits), urban-contemporary, mainstream rock, and MOR pop are hard to avoid--you hear them everywhere, so if you don't care for them, you still get subjected to them.
Quote from: dps on September 21, 2012, 10:06:27 AM
The thing about Death Metal and a lot of other genres is that they are pretty easy to avoid if you don't like them. OTOH, stuff like modern country music (which gets lots of crossover hits), urban-contemporary, mainstream rock, and MOR pop are hard to avoid--you hear them everywhere, so if you don't care for them, you still get subjected to them.
I generally don't have that problem (or maybe its that I don't really have any issues with those genres so they just fade into the background for me).
Quote from: garbon on September 21, 2012, 10:08:34 AM
Quote from: dps on September 21, 2012, 10:06:27 AM
The thing about Death Metal and a lot of other genres is that they are pretty easy to avoid if you don't like them. OTOH, stuff like modern country music (which gets lots of crossover hits), urban-contemporary, mainstream rock, and MOR pop are hard to avoid--you hear them everywhere, so if you don't care for them, you still get subjected to them.
I generally don't have that problem (or maybe its that I don't really have any issues with those genres so they just fade into the background for me).
I wasn't saying that I have issues with those specific genre (with modern country, yes, but certainly not with mainstream rock) but rather that for those that do have issues with them, they're relatively hard to avoid.
Dubstep.
Quote from: Syt on September 20, 2012, 11:20:35 PM
Quote from: PRC on September 20, 2012, 11:09:25 PM
Death metal.
Please elaborate.
It was mentioned that there are a lot of subgenres in "death metal" so maybe I should break that down further. I've never heard the term "growl metal" before but that seems like a fitting term and it should be banned because it's shit.
Quote from: Queequeg on September 21, 2012, 10:59:19 AM
Dubstep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YJVmu6yttiw#t=46s
Hip hop.
Prog.
Dubstep's great in an appropriate context.
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 21, 2012, 06:15:55 PM
Prog.
Dubstep's great in an appropriate context.
I assume by "in an appropriate context," you mean "while tripping balls." Oddly, that context also works for prog.
The only appropriate context for dubstep is hell.
Quote from: ulmont on September 21, 2012, 06:40:27 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 21, 2012, 06:15:55 PM
Prog.
Dubstep's great in an appropriate context.
I assume by "in an appropriate context," you mean "while tripping balls." Oddly, that context also works for prog.
Some degree of alteration helps. What matters is being in Bristol a few years back dancing in front of an enormous speaker, it's awesome. I agree it doesn't belong on car adverts.
Quote from: Josephus on September 21, 2012, 03:16:44 PM
Hip hop.
Racist! After all hip hop is really just the name for pop songs sung by black people these days.
Quote from: PRC on September 21, 2012, 11:01:48 AM
Quote from: Syt on September 20, 2012, 11:20:35 PM
Quote from: PRC on September 20, 2012, 11:09:25 PM
Death metal.
Please elaborate.
It was mentioned that there are a lot of subgenres in "death metal" so maybe I should break that down further. I've never heard the term "growl metal" before but that seems like a fitting term and it should be banned because it's shit.
Growl metal is pretty good name for it. Music where it sounds like the singer has attempted to swallow the microphone.
Quote from: garbon on September 21, 2012, 11:29:31 PM
Quote from: Josephus on September 21, 2012, 03:16:44 PM
Hip hop.
Racist! After all hip hop is really just the name for pop songs sung by black people these days.
I thought hiphop meant rap.
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 21, 2012, 06:15:55 PM
Prog.
Dubstep's great in an appropriate context.
Prog? :o
But...but...a lot of it is great. And you never really encounter it unless you look for it.
Quote from: ulmont on September 21, 2012, 11:03:10 AM
Quote from: Queequeg on September 21, 2012, 10:59:19 AM
Dubstep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YJVmu6yttiw#t=46s
Funny video, horrible music.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.demotivers.com%2Fuploads%2F2011_05%2F24%2F11603_240_500_Dubstep-....jpg&hash=8b36c9d9cdc7db8c1a0715844c8dedc34415db8f)
How dare you insult whales like that! :mad:
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 22, 2012, 02:38:24 AM
Funny video, horrible music.
Seems this cartoonist thinks you should be a fan. :lol:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fverydemotivational.files.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F06%2Fdemotivational-posters-dubstep2.jpg&hash=fa1c5e9b197fc3465fc6e9c80008ffbff66329bf)
Reggaeton. There should be a special kind of hell designed for those who listen to it.
Quote from: Iormlund on September 22, 2012, 05:53:17 AM
Reggaeton. There should be a special kind of hell designed for those who listen to it.
One where the only radio stations play growl metal and dubstep, perhaps?
Quote from: garbon on September 21, 2012, 11:29:31 PM
Quote from: Josephus on September 21, 2012, 03:16:44 PM
Hip hop.
Racist! After all hip hop is really just the name for pop songs sung by black people these days.
They had something going with the blues, but it's been downhill for them ever since.
--I'm glad I'm too old to even know what dubstep means.
Screamo. :bleeding:
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 21, 2012, 07:40:02 PM
Some degree of alteration helps. What matters is being in Bristol a few years back dancing in front of an enormous speaker, it's awesome. I agree it doesn't belong on car adverts.
I think there's a big difference between occasionally Trip Hop-y British Dubstep acts and American acts like Skrillex. Skrillex is basically Limp Bizkit for the 2010s. I actually like a lot of the British Dubstep I've heard (especially Burial), though much of this was largely through watching Misfits.
Quote from: mongers on September 20, 2012, 07:38:40 PM
But good grief, Black Metal, Death Metal,Thrash Metal or whatever it calls itself, that stuff is pure crap; same guitar sounds, drumming, guy screaming. A 5 seconds listen tells you exactly what the whole track is like.
megadeth, metallica, slayer, and anthrax...really you should be flogged for that
Quote from: Queequeg on September 22, 2012, 07:53:05 PM... Burial ...
Fuck yeah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlEkvbRmfrA.
Oh okay. I've not heard Skrillex but love Burial. So yeah the UK scene is maybe different.
Ban Dub Step. Me to my sons using my best old man voice "You call that Music!!!????!!!"
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 25, 2012, 07:43:35 PM
Oh okay. I've not heard Skrillex but love Burial. So yeah the UK scene is maybe different.
Heh, I didnt even read the thread before posting. According to my sons Skrillex is THE thing - or at least was last year. Be thankful you havent actually heard it.
Guys I lived next to last year were huge in to Dubstep. Parties. Every weekend. 9 goddamn months. Totally intolerable.
Quote from: crazy canuck on September 25, 2012, 11:37:43 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 25, 2012, 07:43:35 PM
Oh okay. I've not heard Skrillex but love Burial. So yeah the UK scene is maybe different.
Heh, I didnt even read the thread before posting. According to my sons Skrillex is THE thing - or at least was last year. Be thankful you havent actually heard it.
Okay. I listened to some Skrillex...
This is a song (from a brilliant album, worth listening to as one) by Burial, mentioned by some of us. To me this is like a more high concept version of what dubstep is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS38JBh5gcw&feature=related
As I say it was big in some clubs when I was in Bristol (it's far bigger now) but it's nothing like Skrillex. They're more, as Queequeg says, influenced by trip hop and local heroes like Massive Attack.
That shit makes me pine for the days of Emo. I want to punch a Brit now.
Massive Attack is one of my favorite artists of the 90s.
That's not too bad. I like music that gives me the shivers, hate music that gives me headaches.
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 27, 2012, 08:19:35 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on September 25, 2012, 11:37:43 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 25, 2012, 07:43:35 PM
Oh okay. I've not heard Skrillex but love Burial. So yeah the UK scene is maybe different.
Heh, I didnt even read the thread before posting. According to my sons Skrillex is THE thing - or at least was last year. Be thankful you havent actually heard it.
Okay. I listened to some Skrillex...
This is a song (from a brilliant album, worth listening to as one) by Burial, mentioned by some of us. To me this is like a more high concept version of what dubstep is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS38JBh5gcw&feature=related
As I say it was big in some clubs when I was in Bristol (it's far bigger now) but it's nothing like Skrillex. They're more, as Queequeg says, influenced by trip hop and local heroes like Massive Attack.
That song sounds pretty much like Ambient music. :D
In the best possible (ie Brian Eno-ish way) you're right :)
Yeah which is why that track doesn't seem very much like dubstep to me.
Quote from: garbon on September 27, 2012, 09:11:33 PM
Yeah which is why that track doesn't seem very much like dubstep to me.
Well as Queequeg and I were saying I think it means something different in the UK and US (apparently some in the UK refer to the US style is called brostep :lol:). The Burial album is very good though. A lot of dubstep in clubs I went to was far simpler and bassier than that :)
If that's the case, then that leans to my thought that dubstep is really a useless term and really just describes various bits of electronica. :P
That song gets annoying very quickly.