R_dup1 Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 The one song I remember always hating to play and to listen to will probably get me flamed but...L.A. Woman by The Doors. I just got so tired of the repeition over, and over, and over... Other top contenders are: Pretty much anything solo by Phil Collins. I really learned to hate his music. Yanni - I just don't get it. I've tried listening to it, but I just don't see what people see in it. Much of the later Aerosmith sellout music. Much of the later Chicago/Peter Citera (SP?) sellout music. - So sweet that repeated listens can cause diabetes. Radiohead - flame away here too, but if I heard it on MP3 from an unkown, I'd think they needed some lessons in playing and singing. I saw them described as the Best Band In The World somewhere. Wow, what a shame. As to FREEBIRD, I came to really enjoy playing it. We played the live version and I think Billy Powell is one of the best underappreciated keyboard players around. You can really jam on the live version, starting with that really nice piano intro, going through the song, the bluesy Floyd Crameresque piano lead in the middle and then the honky tonk jam for the next fifteen minutes followed by the multiple arpeggiated fake endings. Call me crazy, but I never grew tired of that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R_dup1 Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 Oops, I almost forgot to hate Santana's Black Magic Woman too. We played that in every band I was in for about 8 years and I really learned to hate it. Maybe if Carlos had been in the band it would never have gotten old, but as it was... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan South Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 Originally posted by R: Radiohead - flame away here too, but if I heard it on MP3 from an unkown, I'd think they needed some lessons in playing and singing. I saw them described as the Best Band In The World somewhere. Wow, what a shame. I couldn't agree more. Radiohead sucks. Period. Your illustration of an unknown band puts it into perspective. If I posted something that sounded this bad on the Let's Hear It! thread, I'd be the laughing stock of the forum. Somewhere along the line, someone decided that Radiohead was "cool," and the sheep have flocked ever since. Ditto for the Beck weenie. Flame away!!! The Black Knight always triumphs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 Even though they are my favorite band, I really don't want to ever hear Ob La De Ob La Da ever again. I'm surprized no one has mentioned; Seasons in the Sun, The Night Chicago Died or Mandy type songs. Michael Bolton songs. Mariah Carrey just crawls up my spine. Especially when she starts that bat squeak/noise stuff. I'll take everything mentioned to this point over any rap. rap music = oxymoron -David http://www.garageband.com/artist/MichaelangelosMuse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roto Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 I will second the votes for Guns n Roses and Seasons in the Sun. I can't stand when Guns n Roses covered a song like Knockin on Heaven's Door or Live and Let Die. They were a great band, but I can't stand Axl's voice. First song that pops into my head, you have to go back to the beginning of MTV when they would play anything from someone who sent them a video. "Talk about...pop music. Pop pop, pop music. Talk about...pop music." And the video was just as bad. Where's the puking smiley when you need it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted April 1, 2002 Author Share Posted April 1, 2002 Originally posted by Roto: I will second the votes for Guns n Roses and Seasons in the Sun.Seasons in the Sun? I hated that friggin' song...along with another one released during the same period called "Last Song" by some guy named Edward Bear. Ack ! dB ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Professional Affiliations: Royer Labs • Music Player Network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. rob Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 I dont much care for John Williams work in the film AI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan South Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Another band that universally sucks is Styx, but "Come Sail Away" is the most hideous of their entire bucket of turkeys. I also hate every song ever released by Journey without exception. The Black Knight always triumphs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted April 3, 2002 Author Share Posted April 3, 2002 Originally posted by Dan South: [QB}I also hate every song ever released by Journey without exception.[/QB]I'm with Dan big-time here - I also am a Journey foe. It's mainly Steve Perry's voice - it just bugs the daylights out of me... The lead singer for Supertramp...what is it - Roger Hodgson? His voice bugs me too. dB ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Professional Affiliations: Royer Labs • Music Player Network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursers Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 You can't beat the 70's version of "Music Box Dancer" - can't believe there hasn't been a house remix The Keyboard Chronicles Podcast Check out your fellow forumites in an Apple Music playlist Check out your fellow forumites in a Spotify playlist My Music: Stainless Fields Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jojje Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Anything with an accordion on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Originally posted by Dan South: I couldn't agree more. Radiohead sucks. Period. Your illustration of an unknown band puts it into perspective. If I posted something that sounded this bad on the Let's Hear It! thread, I'd be the laughing stock of the forum. Somewhere along the line, someone decided that Radiohead was "cool," and the sheep have flocked ever since. Ditto for the Beck weenie. Flame away!!!I'm not going to flame you, but coming from a pure songwriter's perspective, I've always been impressed with Radiohead's sense of arrangement. Give me songsmithing skill over technical skill any day. *bracing myself for the fallout* A bunch of loud, obnoxious music I USED to make with friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intheether Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 I've always been impressed with Radiohead's sense of arrangement. Give me songsmithing skill over technical skill any day. I totally agree. Kid A was one of my favorite cd's last year. Very unique arrangements, but Thom Yorke's vocal abilities can take some getting used to. Radiohead has really grown on me! * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tusker Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Originally posted by nelz: I totally agree. Kid A was one of my favorite cd's last year. Very unique arrangements, but Thom Yorke's vocal abilities can take some getting used to. Radiohead has really grown on me!I was excited when I purchased Kid A, and I so wanted to like it. I just couldn't. It sounded so much like middle-period pink floyd. OK Computer is a brilliant album for me though. Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 My favorite Radiohead disc is still The Bends - wonderful stuff. That was the album that was voted (as someone mentioned) #1 album of all time on some internet poll a few years ago. I probably wouldn't go that far, but it's definitely one for the ages. A bunch of loud, obnoxious music I USED to make with friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tusker Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Things I hate: Songs that start with a non-rhythmic crooning and then suddenly blast into groove orbit with no rhyme or reason. This includes a large number of dance remixes and anything by Grace Jones. Guitar solos that get fixated on THE high note. It's where the guy starts off playing a decent enough melodic solo. Then he finds THE high note and continues bending into it for the next minute or so. Songs with talking over the melody:"Sandy my darlin', You hurt me real bad, You know it's true" Uggh. Anything by the current crop of boy/girl groups. If Walt Disney only knew what his mouseketeers have become..... Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Originally posted by Tusker: Guitar solos that get fixated on THE high note. It's where the guy starts off playing a decent enough melodic solo. Then he finds THE high note and continues bending into it for the next minute or so. Sad to say, but Stevie Ray did this with "The Sky is Crying" - and it GRATES MY NERVES!!!! That obnoxious D-bend-to-E-let-off-to-D-down-to-B over and over and over again - FIND A NEW RIFF, VAUGHN!!!! A bunch of loud, obnoxious music I USED to make with friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roto Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Originally posted by Griffinator: My favorite Radiohead disc is still The Bends - wonderful stuff. That was the album that was voted (as someone mentioned) #1 album of all time on some internet poll a few years ago. I probably wouldn't go that far, but it's definitely one for the ages.Woohoo! Someone who agrees with me! The Bends is easily my favorite from Radiohead. I'm not too fond of the direction they headed after that, too trippy. I really like some of it, but The Bends was one of those where I could say I pretty much liked every song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod S Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Cher - 'believe' I hated that freaking song from the moment I heard it. Then the started playing it non stop. There's tons of others in second place, but this gets the prize. Korg Kronos X73 / ARP Odyssey / Motif ES Rack / Roland D-05 / JP-08 / SE-05 / Jupiter Xm / Novation Mininova / NL2X / Waldorf Pulse II MBP-LOGIC American Deluxe P-Bass, Yamaha RBX760 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quendalin0018 Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 IMHO, a person can grow to like Radiohead the same way one can grow to love black coffee--by starting with the more 'normal' songs and working up. I started with the radio singles (Pyramid Song, Knives Out, Karma Police), and once I got used to the singer's voice, I found that I liked the rest of his music. I dunno if this is true for anyone else, but for me, every 'very alternative' band, like radiohead, is a taste that takes a while to aquire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Originally posted by quendalin0018: IMHO, a person can grow to like Radiohead the same way one can grow to love black coffee--by starting with the more 'normal' songs and working up. I started with the radio singles (Pyramid Song, Knives Out, Karma Police), and once I got used to the singer's voice, I found that I liked the rest of his music. I dunno if this is true for anyone else, but for me, every 'very alternative' band, like radiohead, is a taste that takes a while to aquire.Yepper. Who here liked Mr. Bungle the first time they heard them? Or Mothers of Invention? Or King Crimson? The list goes on and on. Ironically, those are all incredibly talented people doing incredibly wacked out stuff. Radiohead is relatively tame on both counts, but still an excellent band that takes some getting used to. A bunch of loud, obnoxious music I USED to make with friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonnici Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Believe it or not, I can actually listen to Yanni at times (it's good tune-out music for writing software to). I can even handle the occasional Journey or Styx tune... But I can not, under any circumstances, listen to any song that Celine Dion sings. No way. Never. I occasionally listen to Hip-Hop for some variety sake, but there's an awful lot of CRAP that makes it on to the radio in that genre. How many grunts, "yeah", and "uh-huh"s can you utter over the top of a song? And someone should tell some of these "artists" to sample something longer than 1 bar or to stick to the beat. Yeah, I know it's your style of personal "flow", but a song has a tempo for a reason. It's your friend. Use it. I feel better now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intheether Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Who here liked Mr. Bungle the first time they heard them? Or Mothers of Invention? Or King Crimson? Me! I couldn't believe The Faith No More Guy was talented. Come on Robert Fripp, Frank Zappa...I do get your point though. Certain styles of music are so different from what our ears are used to that we want to dismiss it as crap. Often it is, but sometimes it's darn good. A professor in College once brought up a good point that if let's say George Gershwin was writting at the time of Bach, it would've been called complete disharmonic shit, what with all the 7th, dim, aug. chords...Maybe what makes us think "nooooo" now will be commonplace years from now and make us think "oh yeah"...it just hasn't come around yet. But make no mistake, there is alot of junk that I don't think we'll ever come around to liking. * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llarion Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Oh, Gawd, where do I start?? First song that came to mind: House of the Rising Sun. Songs I hate: * Anything by Michael Bolton. The man should learn to sing in his range, he'd save forehead veins. * Total Eclipse Of The Heart (AAAUUUUGGGHHH!!!) * Take My Breath Away (Berlin 1985, Top Gun) * Any of Kenny G's original material. MONSTER chops when he was with Lorber, but his stuff, arrg. Any Kenny G song: ii-V-I, ii-V-I, circular breathe for 45 seconds and fade. * Death metal * Gangsta Rap (I enjoy Will Smith, in contrast) * Opera * Bryan Adams * The Doors * Chicago (post-18 only, the early stuff is great) * Twangy country (Crossover pop is fine, but that stuff 'bout dawgs and truhcks can go.) STUFF I LIKE EVEN THOUGH ANYONE CLAIMING TO BE A SERIOUS MUSICIAN VILIFIES ME FOR: * Manilow (14 CDs and counting) * Chuck Mangione * 70s Bubblegum (Defranco Family, Run Joey Run, etc, the schlockier the better, even the Partridge Family, who used the bset studio hags of the time and award winning composers/arrangers) * The Carpenters * Johnny Mathis * Sha Na Na Yes, Phil has VERY weird tastes. Cheers! Phil "Llarion: The Jazzinator" Traynor www.llarion.com Smooth Jazz - QUESTION AUTHORITY. Go ahead, ask me anything. http://www.llarion.com/images/dichotomybanner.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coyote Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 First Zappa I ever heard was Bongo Fury. He cracked me up so much I fell in love w/ his music immediately. How could anyone not enjoy something that starts out: Debra Kadabra they say she's a witch sh*tass charlie ain't that a bitch Some of Zappa's later stuff got tiresome though. And yeah, I dug Crimson right away too. I've not been able to acquire a taste for Radiohead. Originally posted by nelz: Who here liked Mr. Bungle the first time they heard them? Or Mothers of Invention? Or King Crimson? liking. I used to think I was Libertarian. Until I saw their platform; now I know I'm no more Libertarian than I am RepubliCrat or neoCON or Liberal or Socialist. This ain't no track meet; this is football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Klopmeyer Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 I always have something that makes me dive for the volume knob to turn it up...or, as the case is here...down. At the moment: "Last Night" by The Strokes. Does anybody get this freakin' band? Maybe I'm not hip enough to sound like shit, with poorly-recorded, horrible songs. I can't tell you how nice it would be to never hear that again. It was a terrifying moment when I made myself listen to the whole thing once. Ack! Pffft! But I do like Radiohead. Does that make me cool? Yes? No? Oh well, I tried. - Jeff Marketing Communications for MI/Pro Audio My solo music and stuff They Stole My Crayon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intheether Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 "Last Night" by The Strokes. Does anybody get this freakin' band? Oh My Gawd! (I used to live in Long Island, gimme a break)...I hate the Strokes. It's so funny that you mentioned them 'cause I was thinking who I really dislike that are "critic darlings" and that's immediately who I thought of. I think they are more of the New York Dolls 'we know we can't play for shit, but we're soooo cool' ilk. I don't get them one iota. But I did come up with the one and only song I can say without a doubt will always be murder on my ears....."I Will Always Love You" - Whitney Houston Give me Chinese Water torture instead of hearing this song, please. * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RABid Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 Two more that popped into my head. Closing Time - Gezzzz, this phrase repeats so many times it should have been a Sheryl Crow song. Lean on Me - Even beginning keyboardists laugh at this one. Robert This post edited for speling. My Sweetwater Gear Exchange Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roto Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 Originally posted by Rabid: Closing Time - Gezzzz, this phrase repeats so many times it should have been a Sheryl Crow song. RobertSorry, but Sir George takes the cake on the repeating lyric with I got my mind set on you I got my mind set on you I got my mind set on you I got my mind set on you Sing it Again! Set on you Set on you Dear God, make it Stop! It's gonna take patience and time, ummm To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, To do it right aaaahhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 This song's just six words long This song's just six words long This song's just six words long This song's just six words long You know they're paying me money Whole lotta spending money They're paying me plenty of money To write this song, child I gotta fill time 3 minutes worth of time Oh how will I fill so much time? Mmmm - I'll throw in A solo A solo A solo A solo A solo here! (Sax solo) I know that you're probably sore 'cause I didn't write any more I know if I put my mind to it I know I can find a good rhyme here! This song's just six words long... A bunch of loud, obnoxious music I USED to make with friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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