Music you hate

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Originally posted by Basil:
I think I know what you meant, Fredrik.

These negative music threads are a waste of space!

Thank you Basil!

Three cheers to that comment! [Relieved Smiley]. Fredrik!

Ah Sweet Melinda



SJB

My First Negative Post On A Style Or Genre Of Music

Rap, as particularly performed by Eminem.

It was fine to start with as a sub-type, but it seems to be vehical for expressing very negative sentiments in a style that hardly contains music.

Maybe, it should go under an alternate heading than music, for it has no redeeming features as far as I can tell.

Fredrik

PS: That will be my last negative posting on the subject of music. I do tend to hold to the view that if you have nothing possitive to say, then say nothing. There is too mch negativity in my humble opinion...

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Late Bryan Adams stuff

I didn't know that he had popped his clogs!

Dear pete,

The art of timely O'bitchery is not what it was!
[Deliberate spelling mistake Smiley]! Fredrik

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I didn't know that he had popped his clogs!

He may not have... but as for his career???

Some music I used to hate I now LOVE...
Why?

Because people who loved it challenged me to listen to better examples than I had experienced to that point.

Perhaps this thread could serve to assist others in that light?


Surely to criticise negativity wholesale is bordering on an oxymoron, potentially hypocritical, and almost certainly a double-negative?

Music is subjective, and one shouldn't...Blah...Blah...Blah. Even Fredrik has had a go at Eminem, so it's my turn!

MICHAEL bloody BOLTON, he's the one I really can't stand, there are others you know, that I loathe with equal passion, but I'm not going to list them all, I may upset someone

I don´t hate any music. But I prefer some music to other music.
I will go so far as to say, that I dislike some music (e.g. rap, some pop, serial music).

Similar dislikes to me. Actually I dislike atonal music more than any other type including rap, if I am quite open about it.

I don't like negativity, so let's get it out of the system and put it to bed for another year!

All the best from Fredrik

Fredrik,I recall you being very negative about Glenn Gould.

Dear Dan,

I never take it to the personal level. I think I may have made a reasonable exploration of his musicianship in Bach, which is certainly controversial. I think I pointed out that it was not only controversial, but technically wrong in definable aspects, and this was backed up by people more expert on Bach's keyboard works than I was! Nothing negative about Gould the man at all.

For all that I would certainly not get involved in another Thread like that again. I would come up with something like Bach NOT On The Pianoforte, and argue the opposite to a position I disagreed with by arguing logically in favour the position I have, by now!

That is called the experience of age! It happens to us all.

All the best from Fredrik

Much music I love. Some music leaves me cold. Within both categories there is a wide range of personal feelings, some of which change with time. I don't think that there is any music which I hate.

Am I abnormal?

Always,I take the view that you cannot dislike music, rationally, till you know it quite well. If you end up disliking it then it is your own loss, for others surely find its qualities!

The only thing is to avoid what you dislike. I actually listen to musac for example, as it makes a change from my ususal listening! I find myself listening to it in a quite serious way, and it is rarely offensive and often quite nice!

Fredrik

Fredrik,
There's Musak and there's Musak. Years ago, when I travelled a lot in my work, I always tried to stay in a particular hotel in Durham. One of its good points was the Musak in the restaurant. I got to know quite a lot of Wagner while eating alone there!
Cheers,
Ken

None.

The impact that certain music can have on people treads a little bit closer e.g. if you happen to be a catholic living in certain parts of Belfast in a couple of week's time you will be doing well not to feel more than a little antagonised by the marching bands outside! I prefer not to think of this as music (others may disagree).

All types of music have their own cultural back drop or roots - listen to it without an understanding / empathy for that environment and it will sound like a variation on Close Encounters.

Whilst at school, the two strongest memories of my music teacher were his efforts to take away any intimidation of different music forms - one example was to expalin Verdi translated is Joe Green (somewhat less imposing a title!); and the structure of modern jazz - his explanation was fine but to this day it still has me flummaxed!

So, whilst I may feel detached / confused / perplexed / sorry for ( !) different types of music, life is much too short to generate any emotion coming remotely close to hatred.

Peter

I! hate! Nerys! Hughes!

Like other contributors, I don't really think there is much, if any, music I actually hate, though there is plenty that leaves me cold.

That said, there was one concert at which I actually booed - so dreadful was Nott's butchery of the Schubert unfinished symphony - but I don't hate that work. Similarly, I was recently at an awful Don Giovanni (and while I wasn't quite moved to boo, I didn't enjoy the experience and was bored whitless - not mean feat in that opera).

There are only two pieces of music that I would come close to suggesting I hate: Ravel's Bolero (which to me has an element of the monotany of water torture) and a piece I was unfortunate enough to hear the premier of by a composer called Barry at last year's Aldeburgh festival (for remarkably similar reasons). However, I wonder if Bolero could be enjoyable with the right orchestra/conductor (and ditto the Barry), I wonder if Mackerras has taped it....

As to musak - this I think I do hate, and cannot really think of a justification for it. The fact that I would be content to never hear the four seasons ever again can be put down to a hotel I stayed in several times where it was played every morning at breakfast until we finally asked them to turn it off.

I recall once having dinner with a reasonably well known classical musician (who, incidentally, likes to leave cards from the Pipe-Down society that campaigns against musak), he asked the waiters if they would possibly turn the stuff off but all they would do was say 'well, we do have a disc of classical music' demonstrating how completely it is possible to miss the point. However, it is not the music per se I hate, but rather the way it is used, this is a different thing.

regards, Tam

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Originally posted by ROTF:
I! hate! Nerys! Hughes!

I don't really - it was just the name of the song I was listening to when I posted this.

C RAP, and all it's variations - HipHop ...
It just aint music!
Pete

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Ravel's Bolero (which to me has an element of the monotany of water torture) and a piece I was unfortunate enough to hear the premier of by a composer called Barry at last year's Aldeburgh festival (for remarkably similar reasons). However, I wonder if Bolero could be enjoyable with the right orchestra/conductor (and ditto the Barry), I wonder if Mackerras has taped it....

Tam,

I have a recording of Bolero on a BBC freebie CD which I think is quite good, I'd be happy to make an MP3 of it and E-mail it to you.

PM me at Pink Fish if interested.

Are "boybands" considered music? If so, I hate that stuff.

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Originally posted by Sandy8:
Are "boybands" considered music?

No - I don't think they are.

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Originally posted by ROTF:

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Originally posted by ROTF:
I! hate! Nerys! Hughes!

I don't really - it was just the name of the song I was listening to when I posted this.

The old girl has let herself go abit since her heyday in The Liver Birds, but hate is a bit strong, even for a song, imagine how she would feel ? Having said that, even mild exposure to her sickly sweet sing song voice would probably drive me to reckless action.

I think if you don't like a piece of music it probably means you haven't herard it in the circumstances in which the composer performer intended; Phil Collins included, seriously.

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Originally posted by Diode100:
I think if you don't like a piece of music it probably means you haven't herard it in the circumstances in which the composer performer intended; Phil Collins included, seriously.

I'd sooner listen to Vogon poetry or even Grunthos the Flatulent, poet master of the Azgoths of Kria reading his self penned Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning or the complete works of Paul Neil Milne Johnstone than endure anything sung by Phil Collins. Is there any song more vile than "In the Air" by that man - if there is may I please never ever hear it, give me the St Winfred's School Choir or Crazy Frog any day.

I think there is music you like and music you don't - and just occasionally, a person who tries to sing that you just can't stand - you just have to leave the room when he comes on. I'm sorry but PC is that man, seriously. I know I'm not alone in this.

I'm not usually like this ... honest.

Best regards, Rotf

BTW I liked Nerys in the Liver Birds -