Music genres you can't stand...

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That's too hardcore for me

for some reason I dislike any music that has singing in it.

I pretty much only listen to Orchestral music from the Romantic and early 20th century period, which is actually a heck of a lot of music.

"I want to make these people suffering. Punishment dance, forced dancing to death or hard exhausting."

I can't stand that type of music. Electro-industrial. It's total crap for people who wish they were neo-nazi's. No thank you. I'm so glad I left that genre... it was seriously the worst 5 years of my life.

I still love Daft Punk and The Prodigy though.

Me too. I can't understand why Goths - people in dark style - so often like this type of music. It's not dark, it doesn't have atmosphere... To me, it's only next umpa-umpa.

Making sweepings statements about artistic merit is a very bold move, mate. One of the best drummers in the world is a metal drummer. Of course he can play other genres, too. Poetry obviously has no artistic merit, right? Wrong, and good rap is good poetry (obviously if you've only listened to the radio rap, you'll have no clue about this). It's sad when people dismiss things for the wrong reasons, but I hope something decent out there gives you pleasure, and you don't define your life solely by what you dislike.
I only dislike music that is not made for musical / artistic purposes (pop music / marketed pop music)... the 'Auto-Tune' effect comes to mind, e.g. people who can't even sing being marketed over the huge number of good (and non-commercial) musicians in the world who can. I find the tolerance of people for that effect in pop vocals only proves to me that they're not actually listening to the music. Why bother then?

Good point. When I let my friends listen to some of my favourite remixes of their favourite pop songs, they really couldn't hear or appreciate what had been done with the song and just related to the lyrics and original artist. Whereas, I am enjoying the new drum beat, bass line, synth, restructure etc.

Wow, where do I start...

Adam Beyer
Richie Hawtin/Plastikman
Chris McCormack
Glenn Wilson
Steve Stoll
T-1000
Stacey Pullen
Surgeon
Jeff Mills
Kevin Saunderson
Marco Corola
Mark EG (some of his stuff is techno, some trance)
Liberator brothers (Chris, Julian, Aaron)
Dave The Drummer
Lawrey Immersion
Rowland the B**tard
Actress
Chris Liebing
Adam X
Frankie Bones

Just check out half of the sets you can find marked DEMF from recent years and look for the flyers - see who headlined the parties, a lot of the names I'm dropping were from back in my raver days (1997-01), there could be more great talent out there these days as well but I know most of these guys are still out there.

Thank you!!

Me and T-1000 (really awesome guy) worked together recently. He remixed one of my tracks and I did vocals for one of his. He brought me back into the world of Detroit house I'd been neglecting.

While I do hate most electro-industrial (Valoyossa describes it perfectly as being the next umpa-umpa) I like some of the earlier bands that made what would be considered EBM.

The 3 biggies:

Skinny Puppy
Front 242
Front Line Assembly

So besides electro-industrial what do I hate? Powernoise. It's repetitive nonsense without any emotion. Jazz. It's boring. (though I love eclectic jazz and acid jazz) R&B. (basically music to get women to have sex with you) Futurepop.

What I like recently is dark cabaret/experimental rock type stuff.

I like some techno, but usually only the funky or 'hard' stuff, like old Umek, Misstress Barbara, or Chris Liberator. Generally, I'm extremely picky with a lot of electronic music. It seems a lot of DJ's change their style too frequently for my taste, or chase the latest trends. That's not my thing.

I don't specifically hate any genre.

I do have severe dislikes/aversions to;
mainstream music
"upbeat" music
country
emo
ska
punk
rap/hip-hop
overly repetitive music
Any "-core"
Nu-Metal

The other day I actually felt my mind go numb from hearing a song, it was an interesting feeling, but I'd rather have a day long headache than have to listen to the music that caused it.

That's awesome. I just remember getting one of Alan's sets, I think from Motor back in 2000, popped that in my car often.


I can relate with the SP, particularly in the stretch of time with VIVISectVI and Last Rights where they were really getting deep with things (somewhat reminiscent of Tool in some ways), the crash and burn style with the samples kinda reminded me of industrial taking on some of hip-hop's best traits.

I have heard some of the....third wave I think it is? This girl I used to work with burned me a bunch of Cyclon 9, Funker Vogt, etc., couldn't get into it for anything - it sounds way too much like REALLY REALLY dated trance tunes with someone trying to growl over em. I'd say a much better idea; take the Skinny Puppy angle even further - take dark gothic beats, blend it with Mobb Deep type beats or something somewhere inbetween, have industrial that has cuts of Young Buck instrumentals over the chorus (with classic Ogre type vocals - notch filtered and flanged to perfection) - that's what they really should have done. Skinny Puppy' sound-collage style could still work wonders in this day and age, everyone seems like they just utterly forgot it and jumped on the cheese train.

Everything in the universe that's metal. I don't even THINK that's music.

It seems a bit hypercritical to completely discount an entire genre's status as music. Many subgenres of it are heavily influenced by and multiple elements of classical music, do you consider that to be music?
Judging from your comment you must have a narrow scope of the genre.
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An example that may better display the type you seem to be familiar with that includes the influences mentioned above would be this:
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Yep. Not a single one of say System of a Down's songs are creative or express any musical talent in anyway.

Is Amduscia electro-industrial?

I don't find myself disliking genres/bands so much as I outgrow them.

I haven't listened to Pantera or Marilyn Manson since middle school. I haven't listened to Fear Factory since high school. R&B is a big plate of suck. Country sucks unless it has Johnny Cash or Johnny Cashian elements.

I absolutely hate ska in all of its forms. Sublime is just awful.

Metallica has sucked for nearly 20 years now.

Nu-Metal/Korn and their spawn are terrible.