[Music] Genres of music that just don’t do it for you

Icy Gull

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Jul 5, 2003

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• Jun 23, 2020

• #1

I know this is a sweeping generalisation but I just don’t get on with electronic music. I know HWT is likely to have palpitations when he reads this, or alternatively is going to feel very sorry for me

Kraftwerk, nah
Gary Numan, his music just makes me angry

I could go on but I won’t except to say that I don’t think I have a single album of this genre in my quite large and varied music collection.

Anyway, what genres of music don’t do much for you?

Poll to follow if there are enough responses

And yes I do have my tin hat at the ready

 

Ooh it’s a corner

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Aug 28, 2016

4,871

Nr. Coventry

• Jun 23, 2020

• #2

I don’t think I’d ever categorically exclude any musical genre from my ‘likes’ because there are always exceptional examples within a genre. Having said that my collection of rap/hip-hop/urban is essentially non-existent. I loved the early commercial rap songs like ‘White Lines’, ‘The Crown’, ‘The Message’ etc. but that’s about it. Probably an age thing!

 

Is it PotG?

Thrifty non-licker

Feb 20, 2017

23,299

Sussex by the Sea

• Jun 23, 2020

• #3

I think I have examples of all types where I honestly like it, but the 'modern' R&B really is not my cup of tea.

 

marcos3263

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Oct 29, 2009

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Fishersgate and Proud

• Jun 23, 2020

• #4

Country
Reggae
Yodelling

 

Grombleton

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Dec 31, 2011

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• Jun 23, 2020

• #5

Drum & Bass.

Just don't get the appeal.

 

Mellotron

I've asked for soup

Jul 2, 2008

31,835

Brighton

• Jun 23, 2020

• #6

I'm currently working my way through the 1,001 Albums to Hear Before You Die book. It covers 1955-present day.

I'm only at 1958 so far, and there is a LOT of Jazz in the early years. Some of the more freeform/bebop stuff I really struggle with. Lack of dynamics, or any real sense of where you are in a song, I just feel completely lost. Meanders too much for me.

Generally though, I think you can find something of worth in pretty much any genre, bar some extreme examples.

 

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Napper

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Jul 9, 2003

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Sussex

• Jun 23, 2020

• #7

Heavy metal , the music and its fans

Modern R & B is dreadful

 

Driver8

On the road...

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Jul 31, 2005

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North Wales

• Jun 23, 2020

• #8

Jazz
Wailing female singers.
Dance music.

 

beorhthelm

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Jul 21, 2003

35,300

• Jun 23, 2020

• #9

Skillrex and fellow travellers, grates.

 

Bakero

Languidly clinical

Oct 9, 2010

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Almería

• Jun 23, 2020

• #10

Ubiquitous (in Spain), full-volume-in-public Reggaeton doesn't do it for me. Maybe there's some good stuff but it sounds so samey.

 

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darkwolf666

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Nov 8, 2015

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Sittingbourne, Kent

• Jun 23, 2020

• #11

Jazz
Death metal - or anything shouty

 

Notters

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Oct 20, 2003

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Guiseley

• Jun 23, 2020

• #12

Disco. Can't stand it, just seems so dull - and is the focus of so much radio seemingly, including Radio 2.

Also modern R and B.

 

Guinness Boy

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Up and Coming Sunny Portslade

• Jun 23, 2020

• #13

AOR / Soft Metal. Absolutely pointless

And pretty much anything played on Heart FM.

 

Super Steve Earle

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Feb 23, 2009

8,354

North of Brighton

• Jun 23, 2020

• #14

marcos3263 said:

Country
Reggae
Yodelling

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I can't resist offering you this little combo of one of the finest exponents of country and yodelling ever. Plus a wonderful vintage clip. I give you the mighty Jimmie Rodgers:

 

DavidinSouthampton

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Jan 3, 2012

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• Jun 23, 2020

• #15

Heavy Metal - I never took to Led Zeppelin
Viennese Waltzes - Johann Strauss et al.
Anything too bland or Middle of the Road.

But I don't like putting things in "boxes". I was going to say "Pop", but what is Pop. How would you categorise Buddy Holly's "Heartbeat", which I often would think of as the best pop record ever made, but is it pop? I just think it is a masterpiece and can never listen to it on the iPod without repeating it. each to his or her own.

But for the most part, I'll give anything a go.

 

BN9 BHA

DOCKERS

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Newhaven

• Jun 23, 2020

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Gangsta Rap

 

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NooBHA

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Bakero said:

Ubiquitous (in Spain), full-volume-in-public Reggaeton doesn't do it for me. Maybe there's some good stuff but it sounds so samey.

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Booooo

I really like the Reggaton stuff

Only got into it in the last few years but really like it

 

DavidinSouthampton

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Notters said:

Disco. Can't stand it, just seems so dull - and is the focus of so much radio seemingly, including Radio 2.

Also modern R and B.

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With you for the most part on both counts. I could never get excited about things like the BeeGees and Saturday Night Fever. And I know Nile Rodgers is supposed to be a legend and is uber cool, but I saw some tribute to him recently where, when I realised some of the stuff he had done in the past (i.e. Chic), I wondered what all the fuss was about.

And R&B to me is early Rolling Stones or going back to Chuck Berry and the like. What goes for R&B these days is Middle of the Road as far as I am concerned.

 

DarrenFreemansPerm

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Sep 28, 2010

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Shoreham

• Jun 23, 2020

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I like to think I’ve a rather eclectic taste in music, I’m just as happy listening to Elton John or Iron Maiden as I am nodding along to a bit of Tribe Called Quest or Foreigner. But, happy hardcore? No, nope, absolutely not.

 

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pearl

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Behind My Eyes

• Jun 23, 2020

• #20

depends what sort of mood I'm in tbh