Dylstew

No, but it's in conversations where specifically which song it is just isn't of importance.
What I get mad about is that I know they won't know it (which isn't their fault, way too many songs exist), and then they act really surprised when I tell them and they don't know it.

Zack

...You'd hate my music then... Um, not to be a pedant though, but do you mean when an LFO rapidly pans a synth leftrightleftrightleft and gives you vertigo? Because otherwise, any music not recorded in mono is panned.

If you took nearly any modern recording and removed the panning, it would sound all muddled and dense and hard to hear. Our brains like panning, because the real world has incredibly wide-spread panning of every single soundscape you encounter.

I love panning.

Oh God yeah.

"I love YOU,
Yes it's TRUE,
And I'm BLUE,
Without YOU,
Ooh ooh OOH,
Scooby-DOO"

Unless it's really creative. Some rappers can rhyme the same syllable or syllable set for thirty seconds and keep it interesting. Then again, those usually aren't end-rhymes, but cleverly syncopated internal slant-rhymes...

Can't agree enough. Although, I hate fade out in almost any track. It may have been a clever way to cut song length well over half a century ago, but now it screams, "couldn't write a decent ending to the song."

The exception, for me, is music where the musicians actually repeat and fade, playing more and more softly and eventually dropping out. That, sounds like professional musicianship, pulling of a cool sonic stunt.

When the band obviously just jammed out half heartedly for three minutes which has then edited down to 45 seconds with a fade-out? Blegh. No thank you.

So weird, especially when the native accent comes through. Not as wierd as K-pop with "American" accents, or really any sort of non-American pop with "American" accents.

The weirdest though, is that even Americans do fake "American" accents when singing in a huge swathe of popular American genres. My favourite is the Middle Class East Coast white boys who sing hard pop rock with a combination of Rural Texas and Newark, but speak with a slight lisp and an upward ending inflection...

As my mother used to say, "Just because you CAN hit that note, doesn't mean you SHOULD."

Interestingly enough, many times when female singers hit high notes, they are actually singing falsetto. It just sounds so similar that many people don't even realize female falsetto exists. Some vocal teachers still deny it's existence. Many times, this female falsetto is why female singers can hit really high notes that sound just as crappy as male singers singing falsetto frequently does.

That said, skilled male or female falsetto can be beautiful.

Yeah. This always happens to me when I mention a GENRE they've never heard of. You've never heard of the genre, yet you expect to know some weird song? Alriiiight.

My coworker who listens to mainly Three Days Grace and comparable stuff, always asks this, and is super surprised not to know some 21st century orchestral work, or 1980's spectral piece...

He's a fun guy. I like him.

Personal, biggest, song-ruining pet peeve for me though? Root-V basslines. You know, plodding, on the beat oompah-oompah, boom-chick type country basslines? I can be loving the track, and the bass player does that, and I'm done. can't help it. Hate it.

The exception is Beethoven spending a minute ending a piece with root-V-root-V-root.

Rant concluded.

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grindy

-Generic sounding rock power chords. Just terrible.

-Skits. **** skits.

-When someone wants to come off as a good singer and starts imitating gospel/soul phrasing.

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Isbjørn

This. Especially when they can't sing for ****. Worst part about high school Christmas concerts.

Oh, and this type of pop punk vocalists:

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blackdragon123

When backing vocalists are not all roughly the same height (or width). that's just...that's just not on!

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Isbjørn

I don't like it when people say they listen to anything. No one likes all types of music.

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Dylstew

There's probably someone that does or did, as there have been so many people on this earth, but the problem is, the people who say this usually don't listen to everything at all.

And about those pop punk vocals, I ****ing hate them too. The type of pop punk you posted is music I despise, yet there's a lot of pop punk bands I absolutely love.

Isbjørn

This guy knows what's up.

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EPOCH6

I hate when generic twelve-bar blues progressions are thrown in as half-assed filler tracks on otherwise fantastic albums. For example, CCR's Cosmos Factory, easily my favorite CCR album, fantastic standout tracks like Ramble Tamble, Run Through the Jungle, Who'll Stop the Rain, Up Around the Bend etc. But then you've got Oobie Doobie, My Baby Left Me, Before You Accuse Me etc, which aren't bad tracks, CCR are damn good at their twelve-bars, but it just bugs you because you know they have the songwriting talent to spice that **** up so much more, and when they're releasing 2 or 3 albums a year it's obvious that they were rushing (or being rushed). Don't get me wrong, I love me some twelve-bars, and I jump on the opportunity to jam twelve-bars any time I'm in the same room as another musician, but holy sweet **** are they overused by otherwise brilliant musicians.

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KNONE

For the most part I hate falsetto singing. There are a few exceptions.

I am not a fan of long intros especially if they're not layered or evolving. This also goes for songs that are so subtle in changes that they seem looped, such a Carnage Visors by the Cure. Almost 30 minutes long and nothing seems to be happening.

I also tend to get irritated when a song keeps repeating the same word throughout a song. Even though I like the Cars. Ric Ocasek is the worst offender. An example from one of his solo records.


"They Tried"
They tried to tear you away
Yeah, they tried
Oh, they tried to lie in your face
Yeah, they tried
Oh, they tried to tip you off sweetly
Yeah, they tried
Oh, they tried to get on your good side
Yeah they tried, they tried
They never got the picture
They never got the joke
They never felt your fire
They only saw the smoke
They tried to tell you what's right
Yeah, they tried
Oh, they tried to push you around, yeah
Oh, they tried to be what you wanted
They tried, they tried, they tried, yeah
They tried to get you for nothing, yeah
Oh, they tried
They never got too conspicuous
They never felt quite right
They never knew your darkness
They only saw your light
Oh, they tried to make you out stupid
They tried, they tried
Oh, they tried to come on like Cupid
They tried, they tried, they tried
Oh, they tried to tell you what's real
Oh, they tried
Yeah, they tried to stay on your heels
They tried, they tried, they tried
They never knew what ticked you
They never knew for sure
They always said they picked you
They never knew what for
Ah, but they tried
Oh, they tried to pick you apart
Yeah, they tried
Oh, they tried to be your best friend, yeah
Yeah, they tried to top you off sweetly
Yeah, they tried, yeah
To get on your good side, yeah
To get on your good side, yeah
To get on your good side, yeah
To get on your good side
They tried
To top you off sweetly
Yeah, they tried