I like people who sound good, I don't care if they have testicles or ovaries.

I'm picky when it comes to vocals but a LOT of Trance (90% +) if it has vocals, will be a woman's. Probably because it fits the music. Of course, there are songs where the vocals are horrendous but that doesn't happen too often.





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Agreed...it just so happens that most women don't sound good to me. :p: It's not a sexist thing at all.

I have nothing against any of those and would happily listen to them on occasion. Particularly Veruca Salt's American Thighs is a great album, one of the few female-fronted albums I own.

same here...this is the main reason i think i enjoy little dragon so much. her voice is sooo sexy and addictive. in fact, most of the bands i have really been enjoying recently have female singers. beach house, school of seven bells, asobi seksu, camera obscura, metric....all awesome.

and hope sandoval's voice IS ****ing hot.

I don't know why, but I have a thing for bands with high pitched male vocals.
About half of my favorite bands have the vice grip on the crotch sound going on.

This is probably true for me too. :o:

This. :)

I liked Leaving London! :(

Likewise, it just so happens that the majority of the ones with ovaries don't agree with the way my ears receive sound waves.

American Thighs is a great album...100% agree. What did you think of the Breeders album - Last Splash?

I never heard it. I liked Cannonball a lot, but never had to urge to hear the album.

Give it a go, let me know what you think. I also love Eight Arms to Hold you by VS..try that as well if you haven't already.

I refuse to like any generic Rapper that comes out of the woodwork and tries to pass off his rhyming skills using words like 'hoes' and 'ma bitches'.
...These guys make me hate rap even more, even when I know there may be good stuff out there. They've turned me off forever...

Haha. This. :laughing: I still have faith though!

I'll put 'em on my list. ;)

Metallica and Van FUCKING Halen.

i refuse to like any generic Indie band that comes out of the woodwork and tries to pass off their songwriting skills using folky vocal harmonies and 'unorthodox' instruments.

...these guys (and 1 girl - i mean they ARE indie bands after all) make me hate indie music even more, even when i know there has to be some good stuff out there. they've turned me off folky acoustic music forever...

how awesome are generalizations?

DistantOblivion likes Dream Theater, so...


I refuse to like any generic Prog Metal band that comes out of the woodwork and tries to pass off their lack of ingenuity and creativity with pretentious solos and "technical" ability.

These guys make me hate prog music even more, even when I know there has to be some good stuff out there... they've turned me off of ****ty wank-filled solos forever...

I refuse to like any modern-day "country" balladeer. They try to hide the fact that it's really just pop/rock formulaic bull**** with a twangy accent in the vocals, but you can't fool me, mother ****ers!

Songs glorifying consumption, stupidity and a low standard of living make me really, really mad. The people that jump on that bandwagon should be shipped naked to the Middle East. Proof positive of peoples' tendency to buy into cliches and generalities that are actually making fun of them. "Hey, buy my ****, you stupid redneck. Because this is marketed to stupid rednecks, so buy it, sing along and drink your ****ing Corona, dip****."

There's a few worth paying attention to, most are just marketable acts that the indie press can hype without fearing retribution for being creative or somewhat unusual.

Folk rock is awesome when done right, but it does seem like a lot of current bands are using the same obligatory formula, no matter the situation.

wank-filled?

That's almost as bad as saying twat... don't sink the low.

Deicide

I don't care if they have two of the best selling death metal records of all time, I can't stand that ass cunt Glen Benton. His ideas on religion are juvenile (even for a death metal artist), his treatment of both animals and women is appalling, and his attempts to come across as an intellectual are laughable to say the very least. Not only that but I've never found their music to be anything special, like a bland mixture of various Death Metal artists from the Florida scene. It really irks me that he is seen in the same slight as Death Metal greats like Chuck Schuldiner who had more talent in his little toe than Benton has in his entire body.

Eddie VH :bowdown:

for sure, and i'm not really that close minded, i was just poking fun at the earlier generalization. although personally, folk music has just never done it for me, and i've heard plenty through various sources over the years. i can respect and appreciate the talent involved and it's not that i want to dislike it, it just doesn't do it for me. but that's why there are other styles out there and why music is such a fundamental social / cultural element straight across the globe.

They're great. Generalizations happen all the time with rap, I couldn't help it. Everything that i've seen and heard is absolute shit. There is no other way around it, they've ruined a whole genre for me.

Nice to see you have an opinion on that there. Not that I care but it's nice to see regardless.

...oh and by the way I wasn't generalizing rap. I was saying that those kinds of rappers (i.e. 50 Cent, Soulja Boy etc. etc.) have totally trashed the genre. Making it hard for anyone to take rap seriously unless they look for underground artists that still rap about things I give a crap about.

I refuse to like any band that comes out of the woodwork and is not fronted by Thom Yorke and tries to pass off their lack of ingenuity and creativity with terrible excuses for front men.

These guys make me hate music even more, even when I know there has to be some good stuff out there... they've turned me off of ****ty non-Yorke-fronted songs forever...

...and the winner of this thread is...
dac! :D nice one

Aside from their iconic hit tunes, I find it pretty laughable when people are die hard fans of bands like AC/DC, Kiss, Motley Crue, Guns 'N' Roses and The Scorpions. I mean... have you heard these albums?

I refuse to like whiny emotional soft rock, who's marketing seems mostly directed to young girls, but pretends as though it's deep songwriting. All those bands created by Blink-182 members like +44, Angels and Airwaves, Boxcar Racer, for example. City and Colour, The Plain White T's, Dashboard Confessional.

I refuse to like Modern Radio Country as well. Perhaps this goes without saying, but my hatred is particularly seething. Lets set the record straight, The Rascall Flatts does not a country artist make--They're a pop act. Darius Rucker, does not Charlie Pride make, just because he's black. Fans of pseudo-country music are idiots, through and through.

Radiohead.

I find Thom Yorke's vocals annoying as ****.

On an unrelated note, 90% of their fans are douchebags.

John Mayer - not to suggest is a bad musician, but just thinking of his face irks me.. he's so arrogant and self-obsessed and he gets away with it.

Why lump AC/DC with all that crap? I don't think they're like any of the others at all...

agreed...i had an ac/dc phase. their stuff gets a little tired after a while, but they did one thing well and they stuck to it. and guns n' roses isn't that bad, either. i don't listen to them anymore, really, but i did at some point and appetite for destruction still holds up. that album was also very refreshing when you think about the era it came out in...hair metal sound familiar?

if you are wondering...no i haven't listened to chinese democracy and i doubt i ever will.

I've never really liked Guns and Roses before, but they do have some good songs here and there. I agree with AC/DC getting a little tired. Whenever a band finds what it's comfortable with doing it's okay to perfect it but after a while you long for something new and refreshing. But yeah they aren't anything like those other bands there.

Miley Cyrus is my worst by far......

anything with autotune

I was going to say why lump GnR in with all that crap.

I like AC/DC best out of the aforementioned bands, but I think the running theme with all of them is that they stuck to one thing and did it over and over until the world stopped caring. And considering how silly the subject matter of the songs were, I find it funny that bands like Guns 'N' Roses took themselves so seriously (remember their music videos?!). I grew up in a white trash neighborhood where these bands were playing non-stop, and the atmosphere was pretty farcical, like something out of Spinal Tap. Imagine tons of mullet-prone 30-something single males with a beat up trucks and a beer guts listening to music about drugs and hot chicks and perhaps you'll see why I can't take it seriously.

I refuse to like anyone that comes off American Idol. Sorry, but it's true.

Also Taylor Swift, Miley Cryus and Colbie Caillat

Oh and Nickleback and Creed....awful

And the best for last: The Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer I hate them with a passion of 10 thousand burning suns.

No apology required, I feel the same way. I don't care how well you can sing, you're commercial shit I'm not interested in. If I was more into singer/songwriter types, I might feel differently and give these people a chance. Maybe. But I'm more into bands and/or producers, so I'm not interested in a solo vocalist trying to make it. Form a band, do your work.

AC/DC is in my top least favorite bands/artists of all-time. Absolutely horrendous, and the fact that I used to like them haunts me daily. I mean, sure, I used to like Green Day, but looking back on my Green Day phase, I remember their music wasn't always drenched in mediocrity -- AC/DC literally made me waste several months on not growing as a musician/person at all.