Genres you can't stand

[hagstrom99]

So are there any genres or subgenres of music that you can't stand or just can't get into? For me it's opera and dubstep and most mainstream hip hop. In opera it's like "What yer yelling for" and dubstep has no real structure just a bunch of random bass drops. And don't even get me started on Skrillex. Most mainstream hip hop is like "Yeah my n***a imma f**k that b***h and smoke weed weed everyday and dawg, remember f**k the police".

 

[Pippa]

Haha I struggle with opera too, and some of the more straight laced classical music. I'm honestly not really a fan of your "bog standard" anything - classical, rock, folk, blues, jazz, pop... I'm usually only interested if they're doing something a bit different/more creative. I like fusion music.

 

[Glenn]

I think I like all music styles but the caviat is the requirement that you listen to it in the right environment. Opera in the car on FM radio does not do it for me. In the theatre it is quite impressive. Even hip hop is okay when you have it loud in your head phones without distraction. As background music both styles don't work for me.

 

[Pippa]

I think I like all music styles but the caviat is the requirement that you listen to it in the right environment. Opera in the car on FM radio does not do it for me. In the theatre it is quite impressive. Even hip hop is okay when you have it loud in your head phones without distraction. As background music both styles dont work for me.

Very good point! Completely depends on the environment, indeed.

 

[goldtopia]

I like some opera but not all of it and only if it well known. I really enjoy playing Gilbert & Sullivans Gavotte and some operatic arias. I think its good to have an all round repertoire of different types of music. Also pub songs that people can sing to. I have been to accordion festivals where accordion orchestras play music that hardly anyone knows although they have admirable skill, it has little other interest. Someone once asked "what kind of music do I play" What a daft question, as if you have to limit yourself to just one type of music.

 

[Glenn]

I have a nice little piece from the Marriage of Figaro that sits in my repertoire When I play it I normally get some smiles as people don't expect it.

 

[losthobos]

i think ultimately any music should evoke an emotional response...wether that be from mild giggly mirth through to full blown jump for joy elation, from mild melancholy sadness through to the need to angrily smash everything to pieces... obviously you situation in life will have some bearing on your emotions and at certain times we will search certain sounds that will help us release these emotions...some genres may offer different responses as a rule and we will search them out as need be....thankyou for bringing tis to my attention....perhaps it will push me to make sure i always try and reflect an emotion in my playing rather than just sound like a ditty played on a squeezebox as generally happens...

 

[Zevy]

I have a nice little piece from the Marriage of Figaro that sits in my repertoire When I play it I normally get some smiles as people dont expect it.

<FONT font=Garamond><SIZE size=125><COLOR color=#0040FF>Glenn - which one? Im a Mozart freak.
I actually made a few accordion arrangements of WAMs music and published them in my book.

 

[Anyanka]

I dislike a lot of the music traditionally played on accordions, as it happens... the German polkas, frantic tarantellas and the easy-listening style stuff. Other than that, I can't stand hip-hop, rap, heavy metal and synthetic pop music.

I'm really getting into opera though... just the easier ones though, not the really heavy or modern type. Unfortunately, tomorrow's live screening of 'Carmen' clashes with a live performance of a new band we want to see, Moirai, featuring Melanie Biggs on melodeon (plus Sarah Matthews on fiddle and the fabulous Jo Freya on sax etc)

 

[kimric]

Here is some hip hop accordion for ya I would be happy if I never heard La Cumparsitaagain.

 

[Matt Butcher]

There is a very short story by Jorge Luis Borges about someone who is feeling depressed anyway and kills himself when he hears La Cumparsita one time too many.

I like all genres, even with styles I don't like in general someone will always turn up and prove me wrong. I must admit, when I see a sensitive looking singer songwriter with a guitar I start to get nervous, but then at least one in a hundred of them turn out to be fantastic.

But after visiting perhaps too many accordion clubs in month I did once say that if I heard "You made me love you" one more time I would throw someone's instrument through a window.

Oh yeah, Christmas. Call me Scrooge but I do resent that so much ear time in the year is taken up with the same songs. I like that Gloria Estefan one though.

 

[smdc66]

Christmas. Call me Scrooge but I do resent that so much ear time in the year is taken up with the same songs. I like that Gloria Estefan one though.

i was saying a little while ago (although a slightly different point to yours) you can spend a long time learning many xmas tunes but only get a short period of time to play them

 

[donn]

Two different perspectives, same waste of time.

 

[Ganza]

Accordion music with midi backing!

Midi accordion played on the treble side is fine, but I cant stand those awful backing tracks or left-hand midi accordion... Embarrassing!

 

[james_from_stoke]

I know what you mean about backing. I would take it one further to cover ALL BACKING MUSIC. I saw a busker in Lichfield recently. He had a relatively new Hohner 120 bass with 11/3 registers. He was tinkling lightly on the piano keys the first time we passed him. The second time, he was playing 'when the saints go marching in' on the piano keys, tentatively pressing one bass button with this horrendous track on a homemade portable speaker, with slap bass and some 80s synth abomination. No wonder the accordion isn't as popular as it should be.
Rant Over

As for music I hate, probably '70s supermarket music'. That's about the best I can describe it. We've all heard it before. mindless tinkling. Also, anything from the 1990s. In britain it was the weak and feeble boyband ballads. In America, you had the wailing and warbling. and rap. RAP :evil: :x :!: I shall say no more.