Just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it not music, haha. A lot of people don’t get poetry but that doesn’t mean poetry isn’t art. It is quite funny how it works, though. Back in the 60s, the older generation hated rock and roll, now rap has taken its place. I wonder what the next genre to hate will be.
carolinamom2boys- thanks, I have gotten that confused before, not sure why except maybe because I have the same negative reaction to the songs.
I don’t care for Tom Petty or Rod Stewart either.
My S used to mess with one of his HS friends by changing the country station in his car to classical and see how long it took him to notice.
Not necessarily:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmu1jN5A3_g
“Commode Doors”? Oh, no!!!
I am a firm believer that if two people listening to music have opposite tastes and cannot find one compromise genre or station, then there should be no music at all. I know not everyone enjoys my taste in music, but I can compromise if the alternative is country; they should be willing to compromise, too.
That’s just heresy. You must be thinking of the Michael McDonald version. As a child of the Bay Area who grew up listening to Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons, their harmonies and music are timeless. Great instrumentalists skilled in a variety of styles - hard rock, blues, bluegrass, rhythm & blues, and even Hawaiian slack key. If you’re only familiar with Minute by Minute or What A Foll Believes, those aren’t really representative of their body of work.
Has anyone mentioned “Captain and Tenille”? This thread has provided some much needed comic relief amidst college decision angst.
But hey, I like Tom Petty … and Bob Dylan has always been my idol. I used to like Billy Joel too.
I nominate EDM as the next genre we will all hate. My son always had good taste in music-- meaning he liked classic rock-- and then one day everything changed and he started blasting EDM. That gives me an instant migraine. I don’t find it the least bit danceable and it is not music. Uggghhh it’s so repetitive and mechanical sounding… just hate it. I think they need to call it something else.
@cellomom2 It just popped out at me because I enjoy the Eagles, but don’t care for America.
Who would have thought hard rock would have lasted? I have to admit I like techno dance music/EDM with a pounding club beat. Yes, happy to have Sirius. I just generally have trouble with sappy, middle of the road stuff. And song writers who think they’re profound when it’s really crap.
Anything that is covered so that it qualifies as elevator music.
Oh no, I’ve heard heavy metal reduced to elevator music, Buddy Holly as elevator music. Just about anything can be elevator music through no fault of it’s own!
30 Seconds to Mars. Jared Leto should stick to acting. I heard them live once and his screeching sounded like a dying cat.
EDM is such a broad genre encompassing everything from Daft Punk to Disclosure to Underworld to Calvin Harris. I like the stuff that came out in the '90s like The Prodigy and Daft Punk. But I also like newer stuff like a gebreak called Electro swing. It’s so funny and tends to be performed live, bands to check out are Parov Stellar and Caravan Palace.
Beegees and disco*
Vanilla Ice
NKOTB
Cheesy '80s metal(especially love ballads)
Spice Girls
Used to hate classical/Jazz as a teen because many fans I encountered…including older relatives were such insufferable snobs about it being “the best thing ever”. Wasn’t long before I figured out I really had an issue with a vocal critical mass of the fan base…not the genres themselves.
Don’t really hate EDM/Techno…but find much of it too boring to go out of my way to listen to them.
As for country, didn’t really care for much growing up. Ironic considering one of my favorite electric guitars is strongly associated with this genre even though it was also used in other genres including punk rock(Joe Strummer).
- Partially because one older friend is a big Beegees fan and lives to annoy me by overplaying them when I visit him. I tend to return the favor as he hates punk/pop-punk from the '70's and '90s. Only area where we overlap is we both like most '80s music though it's more out of childhood nostalgia for me whereas it was the soundtrack of his adolescent/teen years.
During one long weekend freshman year of undergrad I did something similar to a friend’s older brother who was an insufferable about being a country music fan and a jerk to boot by switching a cassette tape on him so instead of one of his favorite country songs, he ended up blasting this on his stereo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-q0zSh3RvI
Older brother really tried his utmost to try catching and throttling me good. Too bad I was much quicker and he had a few pints too many at the time. Both the friend and I enjoyed a few good laughs that night.
@youcee: “You must be thinking of the Michael McDonald version.”
You see!
Seals and Crofts. And I never want to hear anything from Tapestry ever again.
@JHS --I’ve spent almost 40 years not appreciating “Piano Man” (possibly most pretentious lyrics ever), but now that it’s the go-to singalong song at Mets games, it’s finally starting to win me over.
@momof3sons - I read once that Norman Greenbaum wrote Spirit in the Sky in 15 minutes and lived off of it the rest of his life.
I can’t stand the Doors or Jethro Tull or Tom Waits. I’m also not a fan of sappy music like The Christmas Shoes (yuck) or over the top patriotic songs that are manipulative.
Piano man’s lyrics (and the characters in them) were based on Billy Joel’s actual experience as a lounge piano player before he made it big. It is pretty much autobiographical.
And I’ve heard Joel is great in concert. Tom Waits, best line, (from a talk show, I think,) “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
We need a thread on which were the best live performances we have been to.