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

[Icy Gull]

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]

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?]

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]

Country
Reggae
Yodelling

 

[Grombleton]

Drum & Bass.

Just don't get the appeal.

 

[Mellotron]

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.

 

[Napper]

Heavy metal , the music and its fans

Modern R & B is dreadful

 

[Driver 8]

Jazz
Wailing female singers.
Dance music.

 

[beorhthelm]

Skillrex and fellow travellers, grates.

 

[Bakero]

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.

 

[darkwolf666]

Jazz
Death metal - or anything shouty

 

[Notters]

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]

AOR / Soft Metal. Absolutely pointless

And pretty much anything played on Heart FM.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Country
Reggae
Yodelling

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]

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]

Gangsta Rap

 

[NooBHA]

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.

Booooo

I really like the Reggaton stuff

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

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

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.

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]

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.

 

[pearl]

depends what sort of mood I'm in tbh