What are your least favorite genres, Prog fans?

The vocal on modern pop, especially female, are to often electronically pitched in the most obvious way, sounds like Micky Mouse  Cher did it first, that was inventive and fun, but now it's a plague. Making it worse is the fact that the Lyrics often repeats it self into a brainwash, trying to make the listener remember the song faster. Just like a commercial.

Edited by tamijo - August 26 2012 at 22:33

Pop (in all forms)

 - Dark Electro-Goth or Electro-Industrial, especially from Germany. I don't know what happened in this country after Das Ich and Wumpscut, but I can't stand Funker Vogt. I will try to bear Hocico, Cenobita and other bands from Mexico, but I'm not sure I would enjoy them (special points for And One, the goofiest electro-pop band I ever heard).

 - this "Makina" thing from Spain. Spain, be serious: only export Haemorrage or Luz Casal, not this crap. I never cared for hardcore techno, but Makina is beyond my tolerance.

 - College Rock as heard in TV shows. Do American students really listen to this musical equivalent of tedious water? I could add punk-pop/pop-punk à la Sum 41 or Green Day, for it has the same flavour to my palate.

 - Chanson Française / Variété Française (French varieties): I can't stand Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg, Léo Ferré, Edith Piaf... And I DEEPLY hate the music of Jean-Jacques Goldman, Pascal Obispo, Michel Sardou...

Probably Christian metal, especially Christian death metal.  I mean seriously, a slamming Tourniquet concert in a basement club with a keg of O'Douls - who's kidding who?

Gabberhouse and other non-melodic forms of dance music.

HarbouringTheSoul wrote: Revel wrote: ...  Can I say Avenged Sevenfold?  Only music I genuinely hate, and that's because of the fanbase. If it's because of the fanbase, then you don't hate the music.

Really the only genre I can't find any music I enjoy in is dubstep. I like some hip-hop, I like some country-ish stuff, and there's even some modern pop that's catchy enough for me to enjoy for what it is, but I will never understand dubstep. 

Edited by VanVanVan - August 27 2012 at 20:29

Totally agreed about modern pop music e.g. Top 40 stuff. Of course, I'm specifically referring to the stuff that's come to dominate the pop charts in the 1990s & since (although it probably first started in the 1980s) and not the Top 40 of the 1980s and earlier. As previously alluded to, the auto-tuned crap is particularly evil.

As bad as this is, I still must say that I dislike rap/hip-hop even more. This stuff also has a strong presence in contemporary Top 40.

I don't like most metal but like certain stuff though. In general, I respect the musicianship in metal much more than the above, even if I don't like it.

I believe though, that there are plenty of excellent, young musicians out there today. With exceptions (like Adele & Coldplay), you're not going to find them in the Top 40 though. Instead, they're more beneath the surface in various musical genres.

If I hear another thumpa thumpa hip hop piece of non musical crap that is rattling my windows, I am going to go death metal on them (also known as postal).  Neither one knows or can read music....

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