I've come to the conclusion there is NO "bad" music

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

...except for the crap done by Lawrence Welk. All his stuff sucks.

Everything else is cool, though.

[AllegroRondo]

1. May I introduce you to Yanni?

after 4 hours, you'll want to rip your ears off.

[LostinVA]

2. And Nickelback

[LadyAziz]

40. I totally agree

I have been lucky not to have heard any of their songs lately.

[Dukkha]

3. and Creed

:puke:

[NightWatcher]

4. Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, John Tesh, Milli Vanilli

Menudo, New Kids on the Block, Color Me Badd, Tiffany, K-Fed
??????????????????????????

[Serendipitous]

6. Why do you hate America?

And the 80's?

[NightWatcher]

15. I loved the 80's

I listened to Motley Crue, Poison, et al. Then I went classical (Led, Floyd, Ramones, et al)

[LynneSin]

5. HOW THE HELL CAN YOU FRICKING DISS THE MAN LAWRENCE WELK

I love the Lawrence Welk show!

I grew up with our family watching it every week. In the late 90s when my grandfather was in declining health we would watch it together on PBS and afterward we would watch Pennsylvania Polka Night.

I love the show. THe only one with bad taste is YOU!!!

[hfojvt]

12. good thing he did not say anything bad about

Led Zeppelin.

Music is the great divider. Wanna start an argument in a group of people, all it takes is a tape deck. Not only will half of the group not like the music of the other half, they will be unable to tolerate it. And this in an age when much of it is, or has been broadcast nationwide.

[LostinVA]

20. I knew this post would be you!

[LynneSin]

22. I know how to play the Accordian - want some polka music for your wedding

:shrug:

[LostinVA]

23. My mom does, too

[Left Is Write]

7. I take it you've never heard Edie Brickell's "What I Am."

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. Now it's stuck in my head!

Damn you! :mad:

[Left Is Write]

9. Here....how about this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfgU4iQr8PU

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. I'm not clicking on that!

:P

[Left Is Write]

13. It's Roxy Music.

Maybe Berlin is more to your liking (and not that stupid song from Top Gun)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVY2uI_mQ3c

[Starbucks Anarchist]

14. I bet they're all Edie Brickell, and you're trying to trick me!

:P

[Left Is Write]

16. Oh, yes. You've caught me.

Ha! As if I could stomach Edie Brickell long enough to copy the url!

:rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

17. Thankfully, Paul Simon took her out of circulation.

:rofl:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

18. I saw Edie live in concert a few years back

If I recall my concerts correctly, she opened for Bruce Hornsby. I rather liked her- she kinda reminded me of a new-age Janice Joplin.

[mvd]

33. I like her, too

I only have one album from her, Volcano, and it is very good. Stranger Things doesn't seem to grab me as much, as a whole. But there are some good songs there.

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. Of course there is no "bad" music. But there is a ton of shit I don't like.

There is absolutely no accounting for some taste.

[Taverner]

19. Explain Celine Dion then

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

24. I LIKE Celine.

:shrug:

[Taverner]

25. I'm sorry, but I'm revoking your cool membership

Please turn over all of your Miles Davis CDs now

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

26. It doesn't prove I ain't cool

It just proves my cool has gone to another level.

A BETTER level.

Would I get my cool approval back from you if I told you I'm at this moment listening to my Eric Clapton discography? I'm currently at 1966- "Fresh Cream". Great stuff. One might say "cool".

[Taverner]

27. Maybe, but only if you throw on some Coltrane or Fripp afterwards

As pennance :)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

29. I'd prefer some John Lee Hooker

...but if you insist.... :shrug:

[Taverner]

30. JLH works too

[Threedifferentones]

21. So there's no good music either?

I mean you can't have good without bad, right? :)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

28. Yin vs. Yang?

Heads vs. tails? Front vs. back? Top vs. bottom? Left vs. right? In vs. out? Hmmmm...

Then again, when it comes to music, "bad" has a whole other definition. :rofl:

[mvd]

35. Not that everyone can agree on

LOL.

[Jamastiene]

31. Actually, Lawrence Welk music is not all bad.

It served one function for my grandmother. Any time she was constipated, she would listen to Lawrence Welk for treatment. And what about all those people who have suffered from insomnia? You can't say his music hasn't done wonders for many of them. :evilgrin:

[mvd]

32. I agree

There's stuff I don't like, but even the most unpleasant (to me) music can be twisted to have merit.

[sarge43]

34. Listen to Richard Wagner's Festival Overture someday, then get back

to me about that no bad music thing.

[Swede]

36. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,err the ear.

There is music I don't like,but others do,so I no longer judge.

[SKKY]

37. Don "Miami Vice" Johnson - Hearbeat...

This doesn't just suck. It suckity suck sucks!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULI5kolBpAk

[omega minimo]

38. Journey N/T

:puke:

[last_texas_dem]

39. I like what you're saying

It's all a matter of personal preference, really. If music were really supposed to be approached as objectively "good" or "bad", why is it that just about everyone has more than a few "skeletons in the closet" when it comes to their music collection? I would think the folks who "know" music would only like only "good" bands but that seems to never be the case. If you add up all the artists different people consider to be their "guilty pleasures" there would be far more of them than the number of artists that are considered to be indisputably good, and there's just something messed up about that. People should listen to what appeals to them, and ignore all the people who try to pass off their personal opinions of music as indisputable facts.

As for Lawrence Welk, I actually have a sentimental attachment to the one song I know by him, "The Beer Barrel Polka" 'cause it was on a big band record of my grandma's that I used to listen to a lot as a kid. (That was as a kid in the early 1990's, though; I've never denied being a weird kid!) I've never heard anything else by him, though, at least as far as I know.

[LadyAziz]

41. That dude from Baywatch

David what's his name? is very, very bad.