What are your least favorite genres, Prog fans?

Modern Country & Smooth Jazz and most of the stuff that makes the top 10 in the UK charts that my granddaughter subjects me to.

Never warmed to ambient, free jazz, latin/salsa, thrash/hair metal, glitch, techno, country rock, soul, raga, anything released on Gabriel's Real World label, flat packed furniture...no wait

Not a big hip hop fan.

bytor2112 wrote: 21st century pop music is the WORST kind of music that has ever been.

colorofmoney91 wrote: I generally dislike pop-country stuff, but I do enjoy Taylor Swift, and sometimes even her music.

Modern pop music, yes.
Other than Rap and Hip-Hop, I'd say 60's German Crooner music and 50's Rockabilly/ Pop.

I generally dislike pop-country stuff, but I do enjoy Taylor Swift, and sometimes even her music.

If we can talk about types of music also....

On top of the list of worst music, I think I will say modern music for children. I haven't explored much of it, but what I have heard is very upsetting. The sound I'm thinking about is sort of in a commercial pop style, but cheaper, a crisp sound with compression on the singing, which is also very articulated making it overly clear, and it's provocatively silly in a way I can't describe. The general mood is also constantly happy, extremely lightweight and silly, without the slightest humour or charm. I mean , when I was a kid I liked real music. When I was five I loved a solo album by Peter Baumann (my first big musc experience, still a big favourite). A gloomy album by the way, not at all happy. But I guess all kids seem to like this music . and parents seem to love it, which is even sadder. But I'm certain that I wouldn't have liked that sort of music if I had heard it at age 5.  Despisable. Things made for children is very superficial and mindless, the toy industry  is a very sad commercial business.

The second type of music I hate is rock cover bands. They play songs that everybody knows, for example glam rock hits, like Bon Jovi and...well, classics. It's totally meaningless to me, and it is sickening, I can't stand it.

Well on the third place I guess I have to put the swedish dance band music. It's a special sound, a very degenerated form of music, like a sad joke, but people enjoy dancing to it, that's why it is successful out in the country.  I haven't found myself being forced to listen to it for a longer while though, so I don't feel any special anger towards it. becasue far from everyone likes this type of music, it helps relieve most of my potential frustration towards it.

Not really a type of music but a selection of music, rock and pop classics , is something which I have a big problem with, and of course that's the thing that commercial radio stations play all the time. It's a particular selection, and the songs are so well known and recognized that it is beyond ridiculous. I really feel bad when having to listen to that sort of thing, but it rarely happens.

Commercial pop music. The sort that is aimed towards radio play. I keep away from it, but sometimes I hear something, and it's always amazing how some chord sequences can apparently be used an infinite amount of times. And that's just one aspect. Everything sounds the same, very streamlined. It serves some kind of purpose, but it's unhealthy for people that really listens to music and has a passion for it.

In terms of styles commercial pop music can be different styles like hip-hop  or dance related. I don't like hip-hop in general. But rather than talking about genres I'll say I don't like music that's commercially adapted, or being made to suit a specific audience, trying to keep in line with what is current by imitating current stuff.




Edited by wilmon91 - July 04 2012 at 20:09

smartpatrol wrote: Modern pop music.

Hey, Mondo Cane is a really good album though it was suppose to be released back in 2008.

Any Colour You Like wrote: I hope you're not leaning on my main man, Kenneth G.

Never speak his name around me again.

stonebeard wrote: SaltyJon wrote: Of Illuminati wrote: SaltyJon wrote: Smooth jazz is the worst type of "music" ever devised by brainless idiots the world 'round. lol, I remember when I was a kid my friend asked me if I liked jazz, I said "no, I'm a bluesman." He then told me all these sub-genres of jazz saying how wunderbar they are, and then he said "don't listen to smooth jazz, nobody likes smooth jazz. It's bad." Very sound advice, there. Rippingtons > Magma. It is known.

Maybe, though I like Magma they do tend to fall into a bit of a habitual sound anymore, eh?