What are the most boring music genres ever created?
 

I vote indie rock

Shoegaze

Shoegaze indeed. And then drone, doom metal and ambient. I can't stand music where nothing much happens.

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Christian rock.

Roots reggae

Whatever style of music European Son is on VUAN. I always skip that track.

Late 90s/early 2000s adult contemporary type stuff. (I was crazy about Natalie Merchant for a brief time as a teenager and it always made me, a demonic 14 year old, feel like I was a bored late-30-something divorcee who was just trying to hold it together during her evening pottery class, or something.)

And of course indie folk/indie rock.

R&B

If you think drone isn't dynamic, you should probably listen to more drone.

Mumble Rap

I'll go with indie folk. It never feels honest or engaging, like the artists are just having a go at folk so they can dress like settlers and play the banjo. Oh and whatever genre you'd call Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Vai.

Agreed. Adult contemporary can be absolutely soul-crushingly dull.

Ah yes, Adult Contemporary. Or 'Adultery', if you will.

It's too ambiguous of a term for me tbh, I know what you're referring to though.

Just call it garbage.

I guess I should specify the indie pop folk and self-consciously uber retro groups. The more turn-of-the-20th-century hillbilly the outfit the worse.

Grunge.

So what's your favourite Michael Buble song?

Jangly indie fluff (with ukuleles and tambourines and clapping and mushmouth vocals) is equally bad I'd say. I always assume that that's what Zooey Deschanel's band must sound like even though I haven't heard it.

Indie is indeed boring assuming you're separating it from alternative in general. I'm not nearly enough of a bland, overly-sensitive twat for that ****.

...I thought they were one and the same?

Only indie dweebs say that. We all know what indie sounds like.

I know what it sounds like, and modern alternative music sounds like it quite a bit.

But bringing a guitar to a party to play Wonderwall on repeat makes you cool though, right?

Yeah indie has unfortunately taken over a lot of alternative, but they're still not synonymous terms, clearly cause one has awesome **** and the other is indie.

Does that still apply when we only focus on modern alternative?

What is the modern-day equivalent of Wonderwall, I wonder? (I am trying to remember what all terrible renditions I heard at parties many moons ago, but I cannot. They all just sounded like goats)
I sure wish more people played Robbie Basho songs at parties. Can't have a party without Robbie Basho, as they say.

That's a good question. It might still be Wonderwall, but I think it's been replaced by general campfire singalong stupidity (seriously, just because it's an acoustic guitar it doesn't mean that you can only tepidly strum it). Also, I play like Robbie Basho's drunk nephew, but at a party I'd probably be inclined to play something a little punkier.

I don't listen to much modern alternative, but at least some of it doesn't sound like milquetoast bull****. Or at least not indie milk toast bull****.

If you can honestly tell me that you don't like The Replacements' version of "Black Diamond" then you can go **** yourself.

Guys, I already gave the correct answer to this question. There's no need to debate about indie rock and whatnot.

That sounds about right.

Oh, and the worst is when they decide to play AT you while making intense eye contact, as if to challenge (or seduce..?) you. It's like being held hostage. I imagine these days they mainly play Mumford & Sons songs or something of that sort.

Guys try to seduce me with their guitars all the time. It rarely works.

Keep your tits in your shirt. It's a wannabe guitarist not Putin.

At least you all don't have to endure butchered versions of "Jolene" solely because you happen to have red hair and made accidental eye contact with someone holding a guitar.

I suppose Cake's Moustache Man is a bit of a step up from that.

Is that supposed to be romantic? It's a song about a guy cheating.

Eat dirty cock.

Exactly. I'd prefer something like this, I think. It would be much more flattering.

I have to go with post-grunge. Bands like Creed, Staind and 3 Doors Down are so mind-numbingly boring that I'd rather watch my toenails grow.

Black Flag, Minor Threat and Husker Du are pretty awesome indie bands.