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What is the worst genre of music?

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Hip hop, almost all rap (I have liked some of the older stuff, but 99.99% of anything new is pure and utter sh!t), country, the extreme metal generas like death and speed, pop, DJ, dance (if it has more than 10 words in it, it's not a true dance song. Purists say that for anything with more than 6 words).

To my mind, it's anything lacking appreciable complexity and structure. Or if the general subject matter sucks my left nut. (Right one is another matter entierly.) Generes where the music sound like noise in general, or is just a simple stucture repeated over and over bores me. Same for music that has the same lyrics repeated over and over and over and over. (Who was it that came up with the idea that songs should end with the same like repeated in exess of 20 times? I want to find them so that I can do very unpleasent things to them.)
 
I hated Ska. I'm glad it's dead. At least I think it is. This Neo-dada kinda reminds me a little of it so of course I hate it as well.
 
Originally posted by: Tom
Christian polka-rap
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We really stick to what's popular with the culture at large so that answer changes, sometimes every few months. Right now a Rock/Rythmic edge gets most of the attention with a hip-hop/urban feel close behind. Next year maybe big "Michael Bolton" style ballads will be all the craze, or maybe Hard Core Polka Rap (one can only hope). It's our mission to service our listener with God's word and encouragement through today's popular style of music.
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:shocked:

From here
 
Originally posted by: mindwreck
pop, and modern pop rock ( modest mouse, interpol Avril Lavigne, Ashlee Simpson) - how can people listen to this junk
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wow, you obviously have no clue who modest mouse are, do you?
 
Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Rap. I mean no offense to rap lovers but every rap "song" I have heard is utter rubbish.
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OK, people are putting hiphop/rap as #1 most hated, even over Ashlee Simpson specifically. Somebody's got to stand up for me & mine... 😀

A HUGE part of the problem is that I, as a consumer AND producer of hip-hop, hate the same-said "rubbish" which is in MTV/commercial radio rotation ("pop" rap, Southern "Crunk" rap, and unfortunately most recent attempts at hip-hop/rock fusion) and which causes you to hate the genre! The problem is, this mass-produced, poorly conceived, all-too-formulaic offshoot is not representative of the entire genre. What's even worse is "non-rap", or stuff which is completely miscategorized based on the artist's historic genre (for example, Nelly and Ja-Rule sing--very poorly, at that--moreso than rap these days; Outkast's last album was completely sung on Andre 3000's entire disc)

Case in point: for anyone in the know, a person who listens to Kenny G (an "Adult Contemporary Jazz" artist, the jazz version of watered-down pop) and uses that experience to condemn jazz altogether (from Coltrane to Miles Davis to Donald Byrd to Herbie Hancock to Bob James, and everything in between) is sadly mistaken and possibly preventing themselves from experiencing some music they might really like.

Anyone who is open-minded about this possibility that there is a redeeming side to hip-hop can feel free to explore the following artists (some you may have heard of, however most you probably haven't if you feel this post is directed to you):

Common
Mos Def
The Roots
Talib Kweli / Reflection Eternal
J-Live
Dilated Peoples
Little Brother
Akrobatik
Mr. Lif

(To those who know, this was not intended to read like an Okay Player roster... sue me 😉 )

That's just the tip of the iceberg, as it's 4am and I can't think. But please, don't judge a book by its payola-influenced cover...
 
trance (hour long tracks of nothing but machines? bleh.)


country rocks, as long as you stick with the old stuff (ie: more Johnny Cash and Woody Guthrie than Faith Hill and Tim McGraw)
 
Rap, country, and whatver the current name of the "techno" garbage is (trance, house, a stroll through Circuit City, etc...)
 
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