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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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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'Well, I'm a common working man,
With a half of bitter, bread and jam,
And if it pleases me, I'll put one on ya man,
When the copper fades away!' - Jethro Tull

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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Ninetales

dave grohl is probably my least favorite musician on the planet right now. personality wise and his music is also boring af

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.

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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Isbjørn

This guy knows what's up.

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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

Two Spirit

All these quasi-hipster bands like Imagine Dragons that everyone seems to like for some reason. I can't reach for the radio dial faster if I tried whenever they come on.