If I had to get rid of one it would be reggae...

...never heard a single reggae track that didn't make me want to put a bucket over my head and ingest my own face.

There are a number of things that I thought of putting, but I hate offending people.
I'm such a fucking coward.

AMY XXX

Modern R&B... It's pathetically CRAP!

OK, I think it's safe enough to second that.
Infact me and my mum were saying this whilst surfing through the music channels.
It doesn't help that it actually dominates 99% of TV and radio


AMY XXX

I third that.

Although my alternative would be Hip hop. ... get rid of that.

I would disagree with that either!

You get rid of hip hop, I get rid of Bowie. Stalemate.

Sure, modern hip-hop is largely crap, but that could be said of any and all musical genres. There's still some fantastic stuff coming out and the older stuff is still great.

Rap - in all its forms, mainly because I can't hear the words, and when I can I find I don't want to.

Charity records, 9 times out of 10 its cheesy pop and theres nothing worse than cheesy pop acts

Ah, I could live with rap and hip-hop. As much as I don't like them as a whole genre, there are enough artists and tracks I appreciate so as not to wipe it off the face of the earth. But I would get rid of modern RnB for sullying a perfectly good genre and replacing it with the whiniest, drippiest singing backed by simplistic, primitive beats a My First Casio keyboard would piss on. Why has Mariah Carey had the 2nd most number one singles of all time when I couldn't name you one off the top of my head?

Rap music I still believe to be the most inventive musically, but the most reprehensible lyrically (or at least in a lot of cases).

Drum'n'bass, ragga and a lot of the death/gloom/doom metal etc I find difficult/laughable to listen to, but I don't hear enough of it day to day to bither me that much.

It would have to be the sorry excuse for what is considered R&B nowadays. It does churn out a few gems - in the past Beyonce, TLC, En Vogue - but as a whole it is so vapid and souless, and I hear it everywhere.

I am a firm believer that, for the most part, great soul music died in the early 80's.

Jazz

Emo. My Chemical Romance and the like.

Oh, and any band formed in the past 10 years that refers to themselves as 'punk'.

That's cheating. Bowie isn't a genre. ... he's spans many genres.

I'm suffocated by Emo's as we speak, because that is the genaral theme of Freman College. Well, that and the 400 chavs. Both equally annoying. Well, as a friend just pointed out, Emo's aren't as loud so there for are less annoying then the chav attack. They can also make suprisingly decent mates.

But on the subject of Emo music, as with some other genres, the bulk of it that I hate with a passion, but there are a few bearable tacks

AMY XXX

*sharp intake of breath*

I'd go for Country myself, I can't stand the stuff.

That's the thing - most genres have artists that redeem them (in Country's case I'd suggest people like Gram Parsons and [as lazy as it is obvious] Johnny Cash, among others) but I've never heard Jazz that I can say I've really enjoyed. It's probably more down to me to be honest - I've either not tried a broad enough sample or I've decided, irrationally, that it's too much 'hard work' to get into it.

<shocking generalisation>
It sounds like a drumkit falling down a flight of stairs and landing on a box of cats, to me.
</shocking generalisation>

Only if you want to become some kind of buff. Try 'Kind Of Blue' by Miles Davis. It's an absolute classic, but really accessible and chilled-out. It's often quite cheap in the stores too.

However, Peter Capaldi made a good point in a magazine recently, stating he disliked jazz musicians because 'they can't leave a melody alone'. You can't argue with him!

I'd second that.

I have a few Miles Davis albums, but Kind of Blue is the best (I'd also suggest Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet).

I'm not an obsessive Jazz fan myself, but I think saying you don't like a specific genre - and to be fair I'll have to include Country in this - is a bit of a misnomer because there is almost always something in genre that has merit or is worth listening to.

A music genre in itself? None, really. Every one has some great stuff. It's the fans & the culture of a lot of the genres that could be eradicated.

But if I was pushed, modern country music (the last 15 years or so) would have to be it.

To be fair, the thread's about genres that you wouldn't miss rather than ones that are actively disliked and Jazz falls into that category for me...I'm sure Miles Davis (or Bleeding Gums Murphy, for that matter) couldn't care less about my opinion, though. Especially since one of them is fictional and the other is dead.

I'll check out Kind of Blue, though.



Edited for a typo. Damn typos.

Is insipid a genre? Otherwise it would be impossible for me to dismiss a whole genre.

As for modern country check out Laura Cantrell

Fuck modern hip-hop, man! What's there to it besides ripping off sampling some venerable 1980s pop tune and slurring some inane, self-aggrandizing lyrics over it whilst some drunkards yell phrases of encouragement in the background?

Two times.

I could live without modern "R n B". There definitely isn't any blues in it, and as far as I can tell the rhythm is the same in most songs.

Insightful, witty and entertaining pieces of wordplay, social commentary and musical experimentation? Not everyone does it, but it still happens.

It's just a shame that when most people hear it, it's at about 130 decibels out of some prick's car and his wildly over-the-top speaker system when stopped in traffic. How come it's never Vivaldi? Or The Floral Dance?

It's hard not to throw the baby out with the bathwater when there's so much bathwater...

But the baby is worth saving. Or bathing. Or whatever the logical conclusion would be within this metaphor.

I must say, much to my surprise, I did enjoy The Coup when they opened for Les Claypool a couple of years ago.

We're only allowed to pick one genre? Shame.

I guess I'd have to go with rave. It fills me with a rage so sudden and passionate that I come dangerously close to turning around and punching whichever charva (that is the mackam word for "chav") is stupid enough to play it in my proximity.

Seriously, it's not even music. It's a sped up dance track with either chipmunk vocals or some stoned charva shouting things like "umma umma umma yeah, Mickey D has blonde hair", or whatever "inspired" lyrics they think of.

Urgh.

Totally agree there. Whereas modern R and B is simply "meh", 'Happy hardcore' makes me despair for humanity.

Yeah, we had to put up with it in our end of year assembly last year, and in our Prom. I was rather horrified.

agreed about r'n'b, and whoever said about the casio keyboard thing (I would search back and quote you but Im tired). it's almost the exact opposite now to what it was say 10 years ago. few exceptions - the new erykah badu album is top notch...

Dear oh dear. Here we go again.

I find musical genre bashing to be one of the most boring & inane past-times. I can't see how any lover of music can claim to go without a certain form of it, it's senseless to me. You can find great work in any genre if you look & listen.
Good songwriting, melody & musicality will always win through in any genre, despite any usual dis-taste you have for it.

Good music is good music is good music.



Edited for clarity.

I don't agree. I like all types of music, 'listen to anything as long as it's good' etc. I like bits of everything from soul, hip hop, to death metal, drum'n'bass, jangly indie, folk, blah blah blah...Ive never heard a decent reggae song. (and Ive heard a lot of reggae, for various reasons). kind of what inspired the thread...don't bash my right to genre bash

Really?

So you agree about happy hardcore then?

I can appreciate music in many different forms, but as music is an artform, (and a vast one at that) it is purely down to personal taste as to whether you actually like certain genres or not. I agree that the most musical genres have something to be appreciated but this thread is just enquiring as to which people find the least appealing. Surely everyone has some kind of music they don't enjoy as much as another?
You don't have to love everything to be a music lover, you don't even have to be able to appreciate it, just as with film/art/sports or anything.

Ah, but that is very different from what some people are expressing here.
I am simply of the opinion that to slam an entire genre is an extremely arrogant point of view.
I of course understand completely people not liking entire genres, but to say that one in it's entirety is shit is just silly.

I don't agree with this. You really should be able to appreciate any good art form of your favorite genre even if you don't like it yourself. I love film, but there are certain films & directors that I HATE. However, I understand & appreciate that they are good and worthy even if I despise them myself. The hatred I have is the personal taste, the appreciation is the art itself.

I am in agreemance wth this.

So in other words, how dare people have opinions of their own, they should like everything.

The bastards.

Ha! Not at all sir.


I could very easily have quoted 'metal' as being my Room 101 musical genre (I really have no time for the genre for the most part, it just does not appeal to me), but there are one or two artists who I especially love that pretty much fall under that label. I'd have felt rather a hypocrite to eschew the metal genre wholesale while still enjoying artists that are classed as metal acts. I have not the words to explain it any better than that.

I think where I'm coming from is the attitude that people have to see the value in everything, even if that genre has no intrinsic value.

And even if it does, if someone chooses to dislike or even hate it, that's their call. To sit on a high standpoint of 'Well you're arrogant if you choose to hate something', is just well...arrogant.

But that's just my opinion, and as we all know, that counts for nothing round here.

It's not arrogant to choose to hate something, but there is a certain arrogance in someone asserting that they hate an entire genre of music, regardless of the fact that pretty much all genres of music are too multi-faceted to be characterised as one lump, just because you dislike some of the artists associated with it. It's perfectly fine to hate what you have heard of the genre, but to discount it as a whole is very close-minded. A genre of music may not have any value as far as you are concerned, all things being relative (I personally fail to see any in something like dancehall, which I've found abhorrent musically and ideologically), but it's impossible to categorically state that it has no value whatsoever.

As long as someone says 'In my opinion...' at the start of it, I have no problem with people hating a genre.

I like music, and in many forms. I can see the value in pop as much as I can Baroque. But I'm sorry, in my opinion, there is no value whatsoever in a genre like Emo, and especially in something like Happy Hardcore, which isn't even music as far as I'm concerned.

Hate isn't a rational emotion, and therefore any hatred of a genre is going to be irrational to everyone but the person who hates it.

I never said that though did I? I most certainly didn't bring the word hate into it either.
What I said was that it's arrogant to slam a whole genre, to discount it completely. If you find that arrogant, well fine really.

Hate all you want, if it makes you feel better, but don't discount or dismiss.



Oh & by the way, that's just silly.

If someone does, is it all that important? Will the genre in question lay down and die? No, of course it won't. It makes no difference at all.

That's my point, if anything.



Well, I said it earlier, my opinion means nothing anyway, so of course.

Well no. Of course it's not all that important, but I never really made it about life or death now did I?

It's hard to tell what you're arguing about to be honest, most of the points you're bringing up I didn't even mention.