pet peeves you have about music
 

I'll be honest, they are a few bands I heard on the radio that I thought were new until I got online,looked them up and found out they had been around for awhile. However what pisses me off is this: For example, I met people in my life that thought Green Day were new when they came out with american idot. I had someone to actually argue with me about that. (I know its kind of stupid, but yeah it happened). Its ok to never hear about a band or singer until later on during there career and its always cool to discover new music,thats not what makes me mad, its the thing about how they think they are right about the band or singer being new without looking up known facts when everything is on the internet.

Another one I have, is the fact Corey Taylor wanted to sing with Justin Bieber. I still like his music and I still listen to stone sour and slipknot, it didn't piss me off that bad, but it made me sick that he had such an idea.

what makes are some pet peeves you have?

I thought the same about The Frozen Autumn, but I didn't hear them on the radio I discovered them on youtube. Since they had such an 80s sound I thought they were a new retro-band during 80's Dark Wave. As far as music goes The Frozen Autumn are a much better band than lets say Lacuna Coil as an example since both come from Italy, but I guess since LC is Metal they get more attention. Certain types of music especially Pop, Metal and hip hop has such a strong network, media attention and wide fan base it over shadows what else is out there.

I get sick of bands like Nickelback and Creed who all sound the same with ear bleeding lyrics .

Yeah this, except for me it's Mayday Parade/All Time Low/Cute Is What We Aim For/Fall Out Boy/Panic At The Disco...

My cousin is into all that sort of stuff, not sure if it's offensive to refer to it as 'emo' :o:? Anyway all that kind of stuff, can't stand it.

That is so trippy I was going to mention Emo as well because it's whiny and awful!

People who download music off things like Limewire (does this even still exist lol?) and Youtube. I can't get my head around why people would do this? The quality is awful, especially with Youtube rips.

This is 10 times worse if the person owns Beats as well.

For some reason, teenage hipsters with more obscure music taste than I drive me crazy. There isn't even a reason, I just feel like someone who is old enough to be my little sibling can't have more pretentious interests than I.

I hate when songwriters post-Pink Floyd rhyme "school" and "fool".

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I think one of mine is when a music piece starts off with a great introduction, then is ruined by the vocals or lyrics. It's quite a downer because despite the instrumentation being good, the vocals or lyrics have just enough of an impact to turn you off the entire production.

One of my pet peeves is people confusing the terms "slow" and "melodic". People automatically think since something is slow, its melodic. Melodic only means the song has definite melody. It could be upbeat or slow. There are plenty of examples of melodic fast songs just as there examples of slow songs that are not very melodic.

I guess I can also say that I hate 95% of modern rock. They all have the same sound and characteristics to me. That's just my opinion. I've tried listening to them on the radio and I can't make it through a whole song. Nickelback, staind, 3days grace, shinedown= All the same IMO. Although I DO like 3 doors down kind of, at least their first album.

That's all I've got right now. Lol

This one isn't necessarily about music, more the listening public:

I get annoyed when people make an effort to listen to albums that they know they won't like (such as Rick Ross / Green Day) and then slate the album. Why bother? There's so much music out there that you will miss if you listen to popular artists just so you can tell people how much you thought it sucked and how your opinion is more valid because of it.

Also annoys me when people listen to an album 10 times and still say "I'm not getting it yet" - Why bother? You don't like it, that's fine.

I can't speak for anyone else but for me it sometimes takes a few listens for an album to click. Sometimes albums I struggled to get into at first become favorites and sometimes albums I liked right away have very little staying power.

Yeah, that's why I said 10 times. I understand listening to an album two or three times (providing you think it's worthwhile) but not much more than that.

Haha. I'll be honest: It took me about 20 listens to understand Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but it paid off, I've now been a huge Beatles fans for years. My entry-album into the world of Bob Dylan was Another Side.., and who knows how long I had to listen to it before getting it. I even hated harmonica before I started checking him out, and now he's my favourite solo artist. Sometimes I can just feel that there is something worth exploring, even if I can't understand it yet, and so I can keep trying for a month, a year, and even more. I seem to have become better at deciding faster the last year or two, though, or I have lost some patience. After all, there is so much music out there to be discovered!

My pet peeve currently is how there seems to be no RYM or BestEverAlbums for Asian music. I love sites like that, and to hunt around the internet for interesting Asian music can be a pain in the ass in comparison.

Also, there's a definite lack of guitars in the western top 40. Unlike in supercute j-pop, where guitar solos and riffs seem to flourish even when you want to puke from all the kawaii.

I don't think it should take 20 listens to decide if you like an album, especially one as instantly impressionable as Sgt. Peppers.

I think it just depends. I didn't like Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age at all the first time I heard it. But I had this friend who was constantly playing it, and after hearing it so many times (not sure how many, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was close to 20), I started really liking it. It happens that way sometimes.

Well, at the time I only liked a few early Beatles songs, and thought the latter half of their career was so weird. They were the first 60s band I ever checked out as well. Well, I should be glad I'm this slow in learning to appreciate, as the few albums that have been instant likes with me have seriously faded from glory not too long afterwards. A perfect example is Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos.

I appreciate that and I don't doubt that repeated plays would change your opinion on an album, I just think that it's not worth the effort when there's so much music out there. I would love to eventually get into the new Animal Collective album, but I really don't see the point listening to it another three or four times when it's entirely likely that I just don't really like it that much. Even if I did eventually end up loving it I will probably have missed out on the opportunity to discover two or three albums I love instead.

Well, why not? I don't think it's always necessary to devour music like a bowl full of M&Ms. Sometimes the slow route is more fulfilling. I love the fact that there's so much music so easily available these days, but I do think a real downside to that is that people blow through music too quickly at times.

That is correct, and I certainly take time with albums I like, what I am talking about are albums that people don't like much but force themselves to endure repeated listens.

My main issue was the first point I brought up to be honest.

Everyone is different of course.

People who refer to all electronic music as Techno
Beats headphones being $400
Nearly everything about Nicki Minaj
Also 2 Chainz
Absolutely everything about Pitbull
Avicii's two finger fist pump

Hardcore dance music. Each to their own, but it's beyond my comprehension how people gain enjoyment from it.

When bands, playing live, screw around with a song's composition (which is usually your favourite track) and pretty much ruin it.

Myself for feeling the unecessary need to gain more music, by whatever means, just because I know I can, as there's such a huge amount of music out there and therefore try to justify to myself getting another 10 albums when I haven't listened to the 10 albums I got six months ago yet because I haven't had time AND knowing that I probably will never find time to listen to any of them, remembering that, once upon a time, I was more than happy with a handful of albums, without the need or want of any more so what the f**k changed? (phew!).

S-s-sorry I'll leave...

When so called "artists" (usually ****ty dance ones) release covers of old songs and people thinks its the original then on hearing the original say they prefer the ****ty dance one.

For instance a dance artist called Boogie Pimps destroyed jefferson airplanes Somebody To love and people think the dance one is the original song, maybe its more that people annoy me rather than anything to do with music :).

I'm the poster-child of Goofle's approach: I blow through loads of albums to try and focus on what I immediately like, and have been criticized here for not spending my time with works other people deem classics.

That said, a couple of my favourite albums have taken me years to come around to, most notably Loveless, which I thought was average for well over the first 30 listens, but has now become one of my favourite albums, even to my own surprise.

In the end, I just hold on to anything I think is intriguing or might come in handy in the future, then stop thinking about it after that. One day I might feel like throwing it on and it'll click, or worst case it'll sit in silence on my hard drive. It doesn't really matter to me, because in the end I'm really enjoying my discovery.

That's exactly how I feel. I have to listen to an album over and over to really decide whether I like it. There is the occasional album that speaks to me straight away but mainly the other way.

Bands that are half decent with annoying cretinous smug fanboys that put you off wanting to listen to said band.

See Rush, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin and many many others.

The Fall. :p:

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You are dead meat.

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Before I start, I paraphrase George Carlin: "I don't have pet peeves; I have major psychotic f*****g hatreds".

I hate it when I listen to someone talk about a certain album/artist I love, and for a moment I am surprised and impressed, only to find out they like it for the wrong reasons. Don't tell me you like Frank Zappa because he's great to listen to when you're "high".

This is more of a peeve than a hatred, but I don't understand people who restrict themselves to the most popular forms of music (One Direction, Taylor Swift). It's not that I dislike these artists (in fact I quite like Taylor Swift), it's just that the restriction... the limiting of musical range is annoying because its just so... boring. How can someone live with a homogeneous music taste?

Anybody who hates electronic, hip hop or country music (the key three music biases) without actually listening to much or any. I used to be like this. I didn't realize how much of a d**k I was.

Have also found myself agreeing with the majority of the comments made here. Surprised how many peeves I have.

The top reason why I like Frank Zappa's music:

• Captain Beefheart constantly drew pictrures of him, and it got on his nerves too.
• He was the father of Moon Unit, I mean Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen Zappa is cute but not as cute as Moon Unit.
• He had a mustache that was more memorable, had more swag, and was more infamous than Groucho Marx Tom Selek and Hitler's combined.
• He knew about particle physics and ****.

I'm pretty sure they are all the right reason to like his music.

I pretty much agree with you Janszoon. I love taking my time listening to my new albums before moving on. If I get bored though, I will move on. How many listens do you usually give your new albums Janz?

I know what you mean. I'm really annoyed by songs with great verses and a weak chorus. It leaves you wondering "is this song good or bad?" I really don't know.