What are your least favorite genres, Prog fans?
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Topic: What are your least favorite genres, Prog fans?
Posted By: Of Illuminati
Subject: What are your least favorite genres, Prog fans?
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 16:44
| Hey Prog fans, a lot of people hate Prog Rock so I want to know what are your least favorite genres, Prog fan? And you can't choose hip-hop. |
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Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 16:55
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Neo-prog, the most pointless, acolyte driven filth ever devised by man. All the others have redeeming features in some area.
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 16:59
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Smooth jazz is the worst type of "music" ever devised by brainless idiots the world 'round. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 17:03
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inb4 pop. I don't really know, there's normally at least a couple good artists in every genre. I guess I'd say neo-prog, since it's beating a dead horse, and grindcore since I've never been able to get into that. ------------- https://aprilmaymarch.bandcamp.com/track/the-badger" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Of Illuminati
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 17:10
lol, I remember when I was a kid my friend asked me if I liked jazz, I said "no, I'm a bluesman." He then told me all these sub-genres of jazz saying how wunderbar they are, and then he said "don't listen to smooth jazz, nobody likes smooth jazz. It's bad." |
SaltyJon wrote:Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 17:11
Very sound advice, there.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 17:16
| I hope you're not leaning on my main man, Kenneth G. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 17:16
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Furniture Music ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 17:20
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Modern pop music. ------------- http://bit.ly/1kqTR8y" rel="nofollow">  The greatest record label of all time! |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 17:21
Rippingtons > Magma. It is known. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 17:23
Never speak his name around me again. 
Maybe, though I like Magma they do tend to fall into a bit of a habitual sound anymore, eh? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Of Illuminati
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 17:26
I actually like grindcore. The Locust and Napalm Death are kickass. |
Posted By: Of Illuminati
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 17:46
Hey, Mondo Cane is a really good album though it was suppose to be released back in 2008. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 18:22
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Country and bluegrass music. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: wilmon91
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 20:06
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If we can talk about types of music also.... On top of the list of worst music, I think I will say modern music for children. I haven't explored much of it, but what I have heard is very upsetting. The sound I'm thinking about is sort of in a commercial pop style, but cheaper, a crisp sound with compression on the singing, which is also very articulated making it overly clear, and it's provocatively silly in a way I can't describe. The general mood is also constantly happy, extremely lightweight and silly, without the slightest humour or charm. I mean , when I was a kid I liked real music. When I was five I loved a solo album by Peter Baumann (my first big musc experience, still a big favourite). A gloomy album by the way, not at all happy. But I guess all kids seem to like this music . and parents seem to love it, which is even sadder. But I'm certain that I wouldn't have liked that sort of music if I had heard it at age 5. Despisable. Things made for children is very superficial and mindless, the toy industry is a very sad commercial business. The second type of music I hate is rock cover bands. They play songs that everybody knows, for example glam rock hits, like Bon Jovi and...well, classics. It's totally meaningless to me, and it is sickening, I can't stand it. Well on the third place I guess I have to put the swedish dance band music. It's a special sound, a very degenerated form of music, like a sad joke, but people enjoy dancing to it, that's why it is successful out in the country. I haven't found myself being forced to listen to it for a longer while though, so I don't feel any special anger towards it. becasue far from everyone likes this type of music, it helps relieve most of my potential frustration towards it. Not really a type of music but a selection of music, rock and pop classics , is something which I have a big problem with, and of course that's the thing that commercial radio stations play all the time. It's a particular selection, and the songs are so well known and recognized that it is beyond ridiculous. I really feel bad when having to listen to that sort of thing, but it rarely happens. Commercial pop music. The sort that is aimed towards radio play. I keep away from it, but sometimes I hear something, and it's always amazing how some chord sequences can apparently be used an infinite amount of times. And that's just one aspect. Everything sounds the same, very streamlined. It serves some kind of purpose, but it's unhealthy for people that really listens to music and has a passion for it. In terms of styles commercial pop music can be different styles like hip-hop or dance related. I don't like hip-hop in general. But rather than talking about genres I'll say I don't like music that's commercially adapted, or being made to suit a specific audience, trying to keep in line with what is current by imitating current stuff. |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 20:11
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Americana For Uncut Magazine's Free CD of the month for the last 10 years or so, Americana seems to be disproportionally represented either within most CDs or a there is a complete CD of the genre. What are you English people doing...don't you enjoy your own music or is this genre just the preference of the editor of that magazine? Please explain. |
Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 20:36
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I generally dislike pop-country stuff, but I do enjoy Taylor Swift, and sometimes even her music. ------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: Ambient Hurricanes
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 21:18
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 21:21
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Modern pop music, yes. Other than Rap and Hip-Hop, I'd say 60's German Crooner music and 50's Rockabilly/ Pop.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 21:25
 She's perdy. Nice voice, but of course, her songs are boring and all sound the same. Just sayin.  -------------
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Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: July 05 2012 at 02:09
 I know it's been said a million times on the PA but I genuinely think 21st century pop music is the WORST kind of music that has ever been. In the genre of prog I would say my least favorite sub-catgories would be the Experimental/Post Metal and Post Rock/Math Rock which I rate on the same level. I simply dont care at all for these genres, but hey that could all change. I actually have some respect for hip-hopp/rap and some country *some*.
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Posted By: Grape_Jam
Date Posted: July 05 2012 at 02:28
I don't really have that much knowledge of most genres to choose and anyway, I think most genres have some great artists.
 Do so many people hate hip-hop that you have to single it out and say you can't choose it?I'm sure if anybody learns of the masterpieces that genre has produced, and doesn't just focus on the bad albums, then they will realise hip-hop is not that bad after all. ------------- My smile is stuck, I cannot go back to your Frownland. |
Posted By: Grape_Jam
Date Posted: July 05 2012 at 02:33
Yup, it's certainly one of the worst. It has produced only a few gems, but mostly it is no good.
However, there are some pretty bad pop albums that were not made in the 21st century.
Example: Please Please Me. ------------- My smile is stuck, I cannot go back to your Frownland. |
Posted By: Wu Bi Shuai
Date Posted: July 05 2012 at 02:39
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Although there are several genres I don't particularly enjoy (such as modern pop), I can usually appreciate why someone else would like that genre. We have different philosophies about music and expect different things out of what we listen to. The exception is smooth jazz. No one should listen to that. |
Posted By: Kashmir75
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 03:11
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Not a big hip hop fan. ------------- Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while... |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 03:18
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I would probably say hip hop or ambient but I am not exposed enough to these genres to know and I might have simply heard the wrong artists. But I definitely don't like the whole idea of a female pop diva and every diva I have heard, from Diana Ross all the way to Christina Aguilera. The songs they sing are usually very boring, their very vocal skills are grossly overhyped and overestimated by the media and, worst of all, they proceed to butcher respectable originals with their masturbatory pyrotechnics. Ok, I wouldn't say Ross was particularly guilty of the last aspect, but Whitney Houston started it and ever since, it's been a tiresome niche and unfortunately takes up a lot of charting time and shuts out other good pop from the mainstream. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 03:56
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Never warmed to ambient, free jazz, latin/salsa, thrash/hair metal, glitch, techno, country rock, soul, raga, anything released on Gabriel's Real World label, flat packed furniture...no wait
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 04:40
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well hip/hop and rap - like trance/techno/house/dance/rave - like rock/metal - like punk (post-punk) - like jazz - like classical music - like folk music - like disney music - like David Foster - like country music - respects but mostly cringe and dislike danseband - the most vile music, dislike i basikli find myself hard disliking most music, im extremely tolerating and i am grown up with alot of pop musisc before i found prog, and I never say goodbye to things i was into in my the past i mostly is a hyporcritical prog fan cause i am not haitng comerciality, i love hooks, catchy corouses and singable songs, techno beats and gangster rap but i also love dissonants, epics, wonderfull chord sequences, modulations of chords, wall of sound, i can and will never choose to not be fan of comercial music like Pet Shop Boys, Elton John, Disney, Bon Jovi, 80s Chicago, nor will i ever stop being fan of my prog favourites but i will never stop listening and lighten up when my favourite trance, techno and house tracks are played on the radio, ( I was trance/techno DJ for 6 years) from 13 to 22 not my love for shamltzy pop songs i burned on four CDs in my teenz full of Cetera, Phil Collins, Diana Warwic, Barbra Strisand, Sting, etc, I will never forgett that i once was a hip-hop dancer and breakdancer, so my love for hip hop is always strong, 90s hip hop, i can't hide that i can dance and are unable to not dance when any rythem or pulsating beat is heard/felt, my legs outomaticly do dance mooves, becouse i can, and don't look like a fool doing it ( have danced in 4 years in my teens before i found prog, i was a hip hop coreagrofied dancer, like those in Britney Spears videos type of dancing) I can dance hip hop and DJ trance music so effing arrest me progers, couse im a darn hyppocrite :D -------------  
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Posted By: Daysbetween
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 05:46
| Modern Country & Smooth Jazz and most of the stuff that makes the top 10 in the UK charts that my granddaughter subjects me to. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 05:54
Schlager music or like Agi calls it dansemusik Hansi Hinterseer and Thorleifs. Play me their music and be barfing over in the corner - thinking about how cruel life can be. Conversely, my grandparents utterly love this stuff. As much as it kills me, it rather seems that they get some of the same enjoyment out of the music, as I do with mine. Although I've never seen them close their eyes or get chills, but they feel elated and smile - wanting to dance and cheer. If that's not akin to the real power of music, I don't know what to call it. Still stinks though  And remember that back during the second world war - Goebbels actually claimed Schlager music to be the national music of Germany. Mostly due to his incessant warfare against art and entertainment with a political footing, which again also was frowned upon (meaning if you did that, you'd probably be shot or just conveniently fall out of a window...). ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: The Jester
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 09:36
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I can't stand Jazz music. I have no idea about all the genres, categories etc, but one thing I know: Every time that I listen Jazz playing I want to move away from it as soon as possible! I'm sure there will be nice songs etc, so maybe didn't happen to listen any of them. I grew up mostly with classical music, which means melodies, harmony, big orchestras, etc. So maybe that's why I like so much all these classic orientated Prog bands, and I can't stand Jazz... ------------- If anybody wants please visit: http://www.gfreedomathina.blogspot.com/ This is my Blog mostly about Rock music, but also a few other things as well. You are most welcome! Thank you. :) |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 10:44
You don't mean Eno and Satie, do you? |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 10:56
In your own opinion, that is. |
Posted By: HarbouringTheSoul
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 12:02
You say that like thrash and hair metal somehow belong together (when in fact they were pretty much polar opposites of the 80s metal scene). Anyway, there are a few musical genres I dislike, although there are usually a few exceptions for every genre: hair metal, metalcore, modern hard rock/post-grunge of the Nickelback/Creed variety, certain electronic music genres such as house and dubstep, most upbeat/straightforward hip-hop, Eurodisco/Eurodance, modern R&B, schlager, emo, Christian music ----- wow, listing all these genres makes me feel so close-minded |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 12:11
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Hip hop, country, grunge and modern pop music (by modern, I mean everything after the 80's). Runners up include techno, industrial, hardcore punk (although lighter stuff like the Ramones and the Clash are cool), death metal. My favorite non-prog genres are 70's classic rock (not sure of any genre name to give that), new wave/post punk, folk rock, psychedelic, hard rock and jazz. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 15:20
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I love a lot of music and loath even more, but its not so much genre based.
Spot on. |
Posted By: Revel
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 17:45
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... Can I say Avenged Sevenfold? Only music I genuinely hate, and that's because of the fanbase. ------------- So now I wish you sunny skies, wherever you may go but you've got to realize, there will be rain, there will be wind and sometimes even snow. |
Posted By: HarbouringTheSoul
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 19:11
If it's because of the fanbase, then you don't hate the music. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 19:38
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not really a genre but that commercial trade music you hear over bad commercials or piped-in at malls, like heavily watered Wes Montgomery jazz |
Posted By: Earthmover
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 20:20
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I can like music from every genre except modern mainstream pop and dance with its subgenres. -------------  |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 22:29
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The vocal on modern pop, especially female, are to often electronically pitched in the most obvious way, sounds like Micky Mouse Cher did it first, that was inventive and fun, but now it's a plague. Making it worse is the fact that the Lyrics often repeats it self into a brainwash, trying to make the listener remember the song faster. Just like a commercial. Under my Umbrella umbrella umbrella........under my umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella umbr umb um uuuuuu
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 22:41
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I pretty much can tolerate most things except for boy bands & their like and most modern country.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 22:45
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Pop (in all forms) Rap/hip-hop Emo ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Zargasheth
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 23:36
| I can like a lot of music, but I've never been terribly fond of rap, country, or baroque classical. |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: August 27 2012 at 06:43
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- Dark Electro-Goth or Electro-Industrial, especially from Germany. I don't know what happened in this country after Das Ich and Wumpscut, but I can't stand Funker Vogt. I will try to bear Hocico, Cenobita and other bands from Mexico, but I'm not sure I would enjoy them (special points for And One, the goofiest electro-pop band I ever heard). - this "Makina" thing from Spain. Spain, be serious: only export Haemorrage or Luz Casal, not this crap. I never cared for hardcore techno, but Makina is beyond my tolerance. - College Rock as heard in TV shows. Do American students really listen to this musical equivalent of tedious water? I could add punk-pop/pop-punk à la Sum 41 or Green Day, for it has the same flavour to my palate. - Chanson Française / Variété Française (French varieties): I can't stand Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg, Léo Ferré, Edith Piaf... And I DEEPLY hate the music of Jean-Jacques Goldman, Pascal Obispo, Michel Sardou... |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 27 2012 at 07:03
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Hip-hop and House (often directly putting on my nerves).
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: August 27 2012 at 08:13
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Probably Christian metal, especially Christian death metal. I mean seriously, a slamming Tourniquet concert in a basement club with a keg of O'Douls - who's kidding who? ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: August 27 2012 at 09:51
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 27 2012 at 10:05
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Gabberhouse and other non-melodic forms of dance music. Some melodic forms are horrible too IMHO.
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Posted By: Earthmover
Date Posted: August 27 2012 at 11:01
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Turbo-folk, Traditional and neo-traditional music of Serbia (where I live). I just can't stand it and to make it worse, tons of people around me play them regularly. ------------- |
Posted By: Revel
Date Posted: August 27 2012 at 20:17
But I do hate the music because I instantly associate it with the fanbase. not to mention the rev vs. portnoy arguments that inevitably start. ------------- So now I wish you sunny skies, wherever you may go but you've got to realize, there will be rain, there will be wind and sometimes even snow. |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 27 2012 at 20:24
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Far and away it's modern R&B (very clearly distinguished from classic R&B which is pretty good.) I absolutely cannot stand that stuff.
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Posted By: VanVanVan
Date Posted: August 27 2012 at 20:29
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Really the only genre I can't find any music I enjoy in is dubstep. I like some hip-hop, I like some country-ish stuff, and there's even some modern pop that's catchy enough for me to enjoy for what it is, but I will never understand dubstep.
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Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: September 26 2012 at 15:06
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Slick pop of any variety leaves me cringing.
I like classical, unless it's opera, then I usually hate it. Country music is just about always awful, unless it's blue grass or Frank Zappa's "Harder Than Your Husband" |
Posted By: rwhite
Date Posted: October 02 2012 at 02:22
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Totally agreed about modern pop music e.g. Top 40 stuff. Of course, I'm specifically referring to the stuff that's come to dominate the pop charts in the 1990s & since (although it probably first started in the 1980s) and not the Top 40 of the 1980s and earlier. As previously alluded to, the auto-tuned crap is particularly evil. As bad as this is, I still must say that I dislike rap/hip-hop even more. This stuff also has a strong presence in contemporary Top 40. I don't like most metal but like certain stuff though. In general, I respect the musicianship in metal much more than the above, even if I don't like it. I believe though, that there are plenty of excellent, young musicians out there today. With exceptions (like Adele & Coldplay), you're not going to find them in the Top 40 though. Instead, they're more beneath the surface in various musical genres. |
Posted By: Master of Time
Date Posted: October 02 2012 at 22:22
| All the new popular modern electronic music is probably my least favorite right now. |
Posted By: AEProgman
Date Posted: October 02 2012 at 22:54
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If I hear another thumpa thumpa hip hop piece of non musical crap that is rattling my windows, I am going to go death metal on them (also known as postal). Neither one knows or can read music.... I should invest in hearing aides as they will not be able to hear beyond age 21..... ------------- 
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: October 03 2012 at 00:14
| ^ I feel your pain. I used to get that every once in a while at nighttime. Who does that? Answer: insane people. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 03 2012 at 00:24
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Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: October 14 2012 at 06:08
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Rap, Hip-Hob, RnB, Gospel, Soul, Plastic Pop, Hotel Lobby and Elevator music, most so called "dance" music, avantgarde type of music, ------------- Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus |
Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: October 14 2012 at 06:25
I hate this  crap. Or at least it's  crap to me.Unless it's played backwards. I'll throw in house music and the auto-tune pop I hear on the radio. ------------- http://revbookburn.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/rexcat http://www.myspace.com/prxcat Greetings! And Welcome to The Global Internet Church of Prog! Hail the Prog and Praise "Bob"! |
Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: October 14 2012 at 06:55
Ever see music videos of country bands that look identical to some '80s hair metal bands without the makeup? THAT I can do without. ------------- http://revbookburn.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/rexcat http://www.myspace.com/prxcat Greetings! And Welcome to The Global Internet Church of Prog! Hail the Prog and Praise "Bob"! |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: October 14 2012 at 07:23
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I try and think of a genre I don't like but I can usually find something apealing in whatever type of music. However! I don't like just about every NWOBHM record I have heard (so far) pointless for me. ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 14 2012 at 09:55
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: October 14 2012 at 10:13
Neo anything? ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Ally Carter
Date Posted: November 22 2012 at 08:35
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Country & Western, Rap, and most of the stuff roughly characterized as Dance Music. ------------- Cheers, Ally from http://www.facebook.com/TheEmeraldDawn" rel="nofollow - The Emerald Dawn mailto:[email protected]" rel="nofollow - Email |
Posted By: Federico95
Date Posted: November 22 2012 at 09:39
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In Progressive, I really don't like Avant-Prog/RIO, but maybe I just don't understand it, even if I have to say that I appreciate Area and Magma. In generic Rock/Metal music the only thing I really hate is Black Metal, I generally like extreme Metal but not this genre, but this is only for "classic" Black, I like several things from more melodic/symphonic bands like Dissection or Sacramentum. Apart from this, there is nothing I don't like a priori. ------------- 
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Posted By: raul_siberian
Date Posted: November 22 2012 at 09:40
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Experimental Post-Metal Indo Prog/Raga Rock Neo Prog Post Rock/Math Rock Progressive Electronic Progressive Metal Tech/Extreme Prog Metal Etc... |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: November 22 2012 at 11:08
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Russian pop. I can't stand this sh*t.
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: November 22 2012 at 11:24
| ^ That, plus this "original" melodic Russian rock (like Lyube) and chastoushki. A waste of time. Russians really have to get their a&$es in the g@$r. |