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Music Genres you just don't "Get"

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And by don't "get", i mean you've actually tried to listen to examples of that type of music and it's so unappealing to you that you find it difficult to even admit there's a type of talent behind it, even though objectively there probably is.

I'll start by saying I never been able to get into the Heavy Heavy Metal... aka Death Metal/Industrial Metal, mostly the shit where someone comes on and screams really loud at the top of his lungs in a barely coherent manner whilst someone slams his hand menacingly into an electric guitar in some horrific cacophony of discordant notes.

Example 1 - Industrial Metal
Example 2 - Death Metal

When I hear these things I generally have the desire to stab my ears out.

What about you? What music genres have that sort of gag reflex for you?
 
Amir0x said:
I'll start by saying I never been able to get into the Heavy Heavy Metal... aka Death Metal/Industrial Metal, mostly the shit where someone comes on and screams really loud at the top of his lungs in a barely coherent manner whilst someone slams his hand menacingly into an electric guitar in some horrific cacophony of discordant notes.
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This. I'm really open minded and love a big avroety of genres, but how someone can enjoy this is beyond me.
 
For me, heavy metal (especially in GH/Rockband -honestly someones ity just feels like the artist is making it up as they go along), and a lot of the unintelligible crap that makes up southern rap.

And techno. Can't dance to it, no good lyrics, don't see the point.
 
techno

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and I'm not sure I want to understand it.
 
RevDM said:
techno
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Even in dance clubs, or is that not your scene?

I can see not thinking it has value to listen to in your iPod, but boy that shit can get one moving in the right setting...

Edit: Ah, I think you're talking about the Rave Scene rather than Techno after your edit :lol
 
Amir0x said:
Even in dance clubs, or is that not your scene?

I can see not thinking it has value to listen to in your iPod, but boy that shit can get one moving in the right setting...
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I should have been more specific, I like house and some other genres of beats but I can't do raver techno like happy hardcore and whatnot
 
Yeah, definitely the nails-on-chalkboard metal genres, I just don't get the appeal of that stuff. I love me some Megadeth and Judas Priest but I don't get that kind of stuff.

I don't really know what to call the genre, but "indie" rap or emo white guy rap. I love rap music but I don't get that either.
 
RevDM said:
I should have been more specific, I like house and some other genres of beats but I can't do raver techno like happy hardcore and whatnot
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Oh yeah I see what you mean.

When I was growing up I was a big Raver, but it wasn't so much for the music as a natural extension of my huge Ecstasy habit. And because of that I have nothing but good memories of those times :lol

Er, I never wore the candy beads or color striper shit though. Did occasionally suck on a pacifier
 
i_am_ben said:
metal in general
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I still occasionally listen to it, and it's more to appreciate the technical ability of the band members, and some of the lyrics are quite good. Metal is the ultimate anti-conservative music.
 
HocusPocus said:
Rap and Hip Hop. I think it ran its course by the 90's. It was fun and interesting initially, but now blah.
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Well this isn't quite what the title means though. You "got" rap at one point (90s rap), but just don't like the direction it currently is in. It seems you do get the appeal of rap, but that rap has to be a certain type. Doesn't seem gag reflex inspiring :D
 
Reggaeton. Living in puerto rico, It's hard to avoid hearing it cause seems like every car that drives by has it blasting. It's poser music, but I can see why the masses would love it since after a few drinks at a club, they play any shitty reggaeton song and girls start grinding against anyone in proximity.

Still, as music, it's the lowest common denominator in my opinion.
 
What... Rammstein doesn't have any sort of screaming in it, and most of their songs have great melodies... Even that example song, Du Hast, has a great melody and actual singing.

Anyway, I really don't understand jazz or rap. In jazz, all I usually hear is a drummer and/or pianist who plays a whole different song than the rest of the guys. And that fucking saxophone... makes some annoying shitty sound which is the final nail in the coffing to ruin the music.

Rap is just some guys rhyming whatever words they can think of even if the sentences don't even make any sense. And the beat is almost always the same no matter the artist.

I just YouTubed couple of songs from both genres, like John Coltrane's stuff. Hell even Moonlight Sonata sounded awful as a jazz version. Rap... well yeah... all these Ice Ts, Diamond Dogs and shit. Only Eminem has like couple of listenable tracks, but I don't know if Eminem is really even rap.
 
Zapages said:
The band is terrible... I couldn't stand my old house mate blasting this from his room. Freakin annoying! I can't believe it he was becoming doctor... >_<

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr1Jf...eature=related

My ears!!! I think they are worst band ever!
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Holy FUCK. How the...fuck me dude. I want to find people who listen to this and remove them from Earth.

SuomiDude said:
What... Rammstein doesn't have any sort of screaming in it, and most of their songs have great melodies... Even that example song, Du Hast, has a great melody and actual singing.
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Like I said, there might objectively be talent there but to my ears it sounds like wild screeching on a chalk board. It's so inherently unappealing to me that, like I said, the first reflex is to stab myself in the ears.

SuomiDude said:
Anyway, I really don't understand jazz or rap. In jazz, all I usually hear is a drummer and/or pianist who plays a whole different song than the rest of the guys. And that fucking saxophone... makes some annoying shitty sound which is the final nail in the coffing to ruin the music.
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Aw that sucks. I'm not really -into- Jazz, I don't listen to it on my iPod... but it's a weird genre in that I definitely do admire the musicality behind it. There's some incredible Jazz Musicians out there. It's very soothing stuff done right.

SuomiDude said:
Rap is just some guys rhyming whatever words they can think of even if the sentences don't even make any sense. And the beat is almost always the same no matter the artist.

I just YouTubed couple of songs from both genres, like John Coltrane's stuff. Hell even Moonlight Sonata sounded awful as a jazz version. Rap... well yeah... all these Ice Ts, Diamond Dogs and shit. Only Eminem has like couple of listenable tarcks, but I don't know if Eminem is really even rap.
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If the words aren't making sense you're listening to the wrong rappers!

Leaving the Past

Anyway, Eminem is definitely rap.
 
It's funny, I hear more screaming in Incubus than I hear in my death metal.

HARSH VOCALS &#8800; SCREAMING
 
Deathmetal, Gangster Rap and Country.

With some exceptions, I find all of the above to be absolutely offensive to the ears and I cannot for the life of me understand why people like them.

I mean, I love Hip Hop/Rap and Rock/Metal, but when you add bitches/hos or Antichrists, I get completely lost.
 
death metal

vocals just kill any sort of redeeming qualities those bands have
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It's funny that i used to share the same sentiment as you. But nowadays it sounds fairly normal to me.:lol i'm not so sure whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
 
Zapages said:
whatever genre this song belongs to:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TH5ibABP4U
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Good GOD how does something like that get signed and put on a CD.

Their wiki page is hilarious :lol

Brokencyde has been universally panned by critics. Metal Edge magazine has called Brokencyde "fucking horrendous".[14] "Thrash Magazine" has called them "a mockery to the world of music". Cracked.com contributor Michael Swaim said the band sounded like "a Slipknot-Cher duet".[15] [16] British commentator Warren Ellis calls Brokencyde's "FreaXXX" music video "a near-perfect snapshot of everything that’s shit about this point in the culture".[17]

The New Musical Express stated in a review of I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It!, that "even if I caught Prince Harry and Gary Glitter adorned in Nazi regalia defecating through my grandmother’s letterbox I would still consider making them listen to this album too severe a punishment."[18]
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Yeah....gonna go with the OP on this one with screamo music. I've tried, really have. I can't even get some of the stuff that's really critically acclaimed like Dillinger Escape Plan (their latest album). I mean, I appreciate the technical skills it took to put together that album, but I can't really listen to it start to finish.

So in that sense, I like individual songs (Oliveri's tracks in QOTSA), and do dig classic heavy metal, mostly NWOBHM, but some of the newer stuff is inpenetrable to me.

And too many people say it, but I really do listen to almost every other genre regularly.

That screamotune song is BRUTAL. I don't know how anything over the age of 17 can listen to that.
 
Outlaw said:
Tell me how it would sound if you used regular vocals in this song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-UbViuK4fY


That's what I thought.


This is metal, is this shit too?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kSRSk1d088


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOVW9GezQ0k


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Z_OOEt0W8
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Dude this isn't the thread to be butthurt in. This thread is for haters to hate.

fuck techno. You're all drugged up losers listening to the same 3 notes that sound like a NES game
 
Jerk 2.0 said:
Deathmetal, Gangster Rap and Country.

With some exceptions, I find all of the above to be absolutely offensive to the ears and I cannot for the life of me understand why people like them.

I mean, I love Hip Hop/Rap and Rock/Metal, but when you add bitches/hos or Antichrists, I get completely lost.
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I hated country so much after I moved from the city to Pennsylvania, but after being around it for years I have come to acknowledge that the best of country music is admirable for the soulful stories they tell. There's some real deep stories.

It's not something I listen to, but isn't quite the level of 'vomit-inducing' for me as it used to be.
 
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