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Originally Posted by Gigantic Debaser
Just a little poll I wanted to post purely out of curiosity. It'd be interesting to see how the results are distributed among users on the site.
The question is:
If you had to pick one of the two general categories, which kind of qualities would you say has the most probability to put you off towards a given piece of music?:
a) Banality, contrivance, cliché or sentimentality (etc.)
b) Abstraction, dissonance, "cacophony" or abrasiveness (etc.)
edit: Or differently put; which one annoys you most, if at all? /edit
Feel free to explain your preference, but no there's no obligation to do so. The poll choices will be public.
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As much as I hate the lack of musical notes being employed in modern pop music. I still have to go with option A over option B
I like my music to have melody even if it's cliche sounding revival genres. You can go a long ways with simple sentimental, or melancholy sounding tracks. Oasis was a good example of this. They were average and ordinary, almost banal, but they knew how to make good use of sad sounding melodies.
As for the dissonant, I can listen to Skinny Puppy on a good day, but I'll take a pass on mathcore, and most progressive rock.