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The worst music (genre) ever?

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rh71 said:
Youtube has hours of it that you can just leave running in the background and I verified before making that comment.
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I have about 30 days of jazz in my collection, and very little of it could be construed as elevator music. Some of would make good elevator music if the programmers had even a gram of cool in their bodies, but alas, they don't.
 
A while ago I started a Pandora station with Amon Tobin as the seed. I've since renamed that station to Elevator Radio, but I haven't deleted it. It's especially good for when I really need to relax.
 
Ruptga said:
A while ago I started a Pandora station with Amon Tobin as the seed. I've since renamed that station to Elevator Radio, but I haven't deleted it. It's especially good for when I really need to relax.
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I like ambient and space when I want loosely structured sound. Those, and some other sub-genres can create/enhance a mood or soundscape. Elevator music is generally schlock, and I'm not a big fan of it's close cousin, smooth jazz either, though sometimes the rare mood strikes, and it sounds ok. Not enough to put in my collection, but I'll listen to an online stream.
 
seems elevator music is a genre

some of the music i have heard in the background at stores and hospitals has been good although
 
MongGrel said:
+1

Percussionist myself, I started playing in the 4th grade, even though I do not these days.

Many frown on those but we had guys in out music program back in the 80's in Madison Scouts, Phantom Regiment, and a one that was the Captain at the time went to Boston Symphony at Tanglewood over the summer, it was a pretty serious music program even though I went in the Marines after then became a Journeyman Tool & Diemaker.

I still played with bands later messing about even after for awhile, my old Tama Superstar Cherrywines 7 Piece set just sits in my Florida room and gives me dirty looks these days, forgive me Neil Peart.😛
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I think there is an intersection between this thread and the one about millenials sometimes being 'unique' to interview and work with, and can seem more unfocused than previous generations.

Playing music provides a singularly wonderful way to learn focus and concentration. One must practice, practice, practice. Once you learn to handle Mozart throwing sixteenth notes at you in the allegro movement of a concerto you can handle anything. Always start with patience.

Focus and concentration are often victims of a scattered lifestyle.
 
bradly1101 said:
I think there is an intersection between this thread and the one about millenials sometimes being 'unique' to interview and work with, and can seem more unfocused than previous generations.

Playing music provides a singularly wonderful way to learn focus and concentration. One must practice, practice, practice. Once you learn to handle Mozart throwing sixteenth notes at you in the allegro movement of a concerto you can handle anything. Always start with patience.

Focus and concentration are often victims of a scattered lifestyle.
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Actually, I would have never noticed the correlation between the two myself on the threads, but that was a very astute observation there.

Good point.
 
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I hate simple repetitive pop music and 'numetal' the worst.

I tend to favor progmetal/deathmetal/blackmetal... But I very much also like stuff like Beethoven, Buddy Guy, Charlie Parker, New Orleans Preservation Hall orchestra, DJ Bizerk, King Tubby, Robert Johnson, Louis Armstorng, Bob Marley, Kazuki Tomokawa, and various other musicians.

I want powerful passionate music. It doesn't have to have "big" or "fast" or "heavy" sound, it has to be brimming over with emotion or thought. I don't want to listen to a musician who sounds like everybody else.
 
I listen to a lot of different things, but rap, death metal, and especially christian rock are all persona non grata on my audio devices.

It's just disjointed, abrasive noise to my ears - although the christian rock isn't abrasive, just good at being able to induce nausea and a desire to destroy whatever item is emitting that bucket of suck.
 
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IronWing said:
Anyway, in no particular order, truly bad music...

French rap
German metal
Christian contemporary
Country
Christian rock
Arabian traditional Koranic singing (not Sufi, which is good)
Gamelon
Big Band Swing
Jazz
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Truly bad music or truly bad taste by dumping on some of these as a whole...and I vote for truly bad taste.
 
jjsole said:
Truly bad music or truly bad taste by dumping on some of these as a whole...and I vote for truly bad taste.
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Ironwing listens to some pretty good music. I prefer to think of his list as an eccentric oddity, rather than a core flaw :^P
 
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