What is the music that tortures your soul?

[Beware the Beast Man]

The yang to progmom's yin of a thread...

Here's some of mine:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight. (nt)

[MajorFlaw]

12. The old Mbube variation.

[Coventina]

2. Anything by Lionel Ritchie n/t

[WeRQ4U]

3. Anything by Beyonce, "Holla Back Girl", "Milkshake", Shit by Usher

[Mrs_Beastman]

46. I think Usher sold his soul to the devil

truly the only explanation for his being

[terrya]

4. Anything by Bjork.

Bjork makes Terry cry. :cry:

[progmom]

7. boo.

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. Yay!

I adore Björk, despite her general weirdness and eccentricity (or maybe because of, because I'm just like that)...

[Trigger Hippie]

9. Aha! You took mine. She tortures me in a good way.

[Fenris]

11. Her voice is like that of a seal being tortured.

[sundog]

16. .

:spray:

[Zuni]

15. agreed

I despise Bjork

[progmom]

19. boo.

[Zuni]

24. meh

[tigereye]

52. she is very popular at my house

husb. and kid love her and her vids. And she's married to that crazy wild artist who uses jelly (no, can't think of the name) to make everything... Matthew Barney.

[ghostsofgiants]

37. No way, Bjork is awesome

[TNDemo]

5. Anything by Cher, Reba McIntyre or Stevie Nicks.

Ugh.

[Nightjock]

6. Any Disney manufactured pop star

Lohan, Duff, ect.

[meegbear]

8. MUZAK

qed

[Democracy White]

13. Elevator music

[Lady Effingbroke]

14. ...

[dajoki]

17. DISCO!!

sucks:puke:

[u4ic]

18. Country

and the manufactured music du jour that seems to be busting out of every youngster's car...

[Fenris]

20. ...

[XemaSab]

21. Cuntry

n/t

[Coventina]

25. *self delete*

deleted on further thought and reflection

[progmom]

30. doesn't work so well for me

still hate that word.

[XemaSab]

35. Sorry

Didn't mean to offend!

[Coventina]

45. I apologize as well, on further reflection....not so funny

[Zuni]

47. I hate the overwhelming majority of music made since 1980

I hate the overwhelming majority of these genres-Alternative, Grunge, Pop punk, industrial, rap, hip hop, modern R and B, boy bands, dancehall reggae, hair metal, thrash metal, grindcore, death metal, bubblegum, jam bands---I have an extensive list of music I hate

I love most Blues, classic R and B, 60s Soul, British Invasion, classic rock n' roll, cool jazz and bebop, swing and big band, classic rock, classic punk, roots reggae, original ska, two tone ska, some folk and bluegrass and classical

[tigereye]

54. hey we might go to see Shemika Copeland on Sunday!

blues fest here.

[sundog]

22. why does the baby have green hair?

:shrug:

[Dukkha]

23. anyone from American Idol

SHUT UP ALREADY! :puke:

[progmom]

26. me no likey

[Beware the Beast Man]

28. Blasphemer!

:grr: :P

[Zuni]

48. You aren't the only one

Robert Plant's voice is enough to make me convulse in pain

[Divameow77]

27. Mariah Carey

she bugs the crap out of me.

[Beware the Beast Man]

29. Yeah, we know you have an 8-octave range.

You don't have to hit EVERY FUCKING OCTAVE in one bar!

[Mutley]

31. all those little boy and girl bands that were so popular in

the late 90s and early 2000s. Like Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls. UGH!

[Democracy White]

32. Anything from Aqua

And the thing is, I have both of these albums

I also don't like anything from the American Idols except for Kelly Clarkson's "Miss Independence."

[TlalocW]

33. So much hate... so little time

Genres:

Newer country. All the women sound alike, and all the men sound alike. The men are all overly-nasalish and overemphasizing "thar hick ack-sents." If someone mentions listening to country, it better be Johnny Cash.

Surf Rock ala Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, etc.

Country rock ala Skynyrd, Eagles, etc. If I wanted to listen to country music, I WOULD TURN TO A COUNTRY MUSIC STATION!

Songs:

Dust in the Wind, Hotel California, Stairway to Heaven, etc. All overplayed and overrated, and the only people I've run into that think they're "deep" were the stoners and drunks from my high school class, who are still in my small hometown of under 2000 people getting drunk or high every weekend and listening to these songs over and over.

TlalocW

[GreenPartyVoter]

34. Twangy, yodelly country music

[Burma Jones]

36. "Virtuous" Folk Singers

And modern "Patriotic" music ala Lee Greenwood.....

[Mrs_Beastman]

38. country music

except for the really cheesy ones....I'm a sucker for cheese

[ProfessorGAC]

39. We Are Of Like Mind, Mrs.

The Professor

[Beware the Beast Man]

40. Yes. I'm painfully aware of that.

Please, no more Dan Hill. :cry:

[ProfessorGAC]

44. I Feel Your Pain

The Professor

[Spider Jerusalem]

41. There's too much to list.

Particular annoyances:

The relatively recent crop of bands (none of whose names I can think of at the moment) who all sound EXACTLY THE SAME, and whose singers ALL sound like they're doing their best impersonation of Morrisey with a bad head cold.

Just about any popular (ie not jazz or classical) female singer who's been labelled a "diva". Christ, are they annoying. Whitney, Celine, and the rest of you: do humanity a favour and have your vocal cords cut out.

Rush and the Grateful Dead. Sorry, but I just don't get it.

"Oi" punk. Best summed up by something I saw on another message board: "Oi! Because stupid people need music, too."

"Smooth jazz". Genuinely BAD, most of it (some is listenable, I admit), and whatever you want to call it, it's not jazz (r&b instrumental is a better label).



The genre of country music I think of as "Nashville pop"...syrupy, synthesised, overproduced tripe. Johnny Cash had the right attitude when he took out this ad in Billboard:

[deadparrot]

42. Modern popular country,

and bubblegum pop.

:puke:

[ghostsofgiants]

43. That Celine Dion/Anne Geddes one...

Is an insult to both music and photography. And as someone who dabbles in both, I think we need to fetch Celine and Anne's heads and put them on pikes for public display.

Now, as for what tortures my soul:

Simple plan (Oh, the irony of this image being hosted on a site called "truepunk.com")


Good Charlotte

[Liberalynn]

49. Any guy who sings in the Soprano Range

ala Frankie Valley
the Bee Gees
Michael Jackson

can't explain it they just creep me out.

[ernstbass]

50. Anything by Queen

[sakabatou]

51. Anything my boss listens to

[tigereye]

55. mass marketed teen crap

sung by those who cannot sing. At all.

Really sexist rap/spawning sexist vids (although the sexist rock and metal don't get a pass either.)

anything with too much pitch changer - use the pipes God gave you, warts and all.

Most top 40.

Guys screaming until their vocal chords shred. Can't take it. Don't care. Luckily their voices won't last long.

Bland, pablum like jazz. Blander than pudding. Blech.


ah, I feel better now. :)

[bigwillq]

53. Mostly country (nt)

[Rabrrrrrr]

56. salsa, rap, merengue, hip hop

all abominable, intolerable, and awful.

ESPECIALLY salsa and merengue.

EWWWWWWWW!!

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