The music I listen to is indie-rock'n'roll. Arctic Monkeys, Oasis, Milburn etc. I even like the Foo Fighters, and a number of rock bands that you hear from time to time. You get the picture. It's guitar music with a reason, in my book. I can also listen to Blues and soul music like BB King, John Lee Hooker, James Brown etc etc. I got into it as a kid when I used to watch the Blues Brothers endlessly and obsessively. Country I can listen to as well, although not the commercial rubbish like Billy Ray-Cirus.
I can listen to some sorts of music but not very long.
Heavy/violent metal music does my head
right in. I don't care how people try and get me into it or explain it's relevance - it's just noise. I'm sorry, but it is. Screaching about death and hurt like a banshee into a mic while the guitarists and bass players play lines so distorted and muddy with so much gain and reverb you can barely hear the melody at all. The drummers are universally acknowledged to be insanely good, which I can see, but by the time I get round to that my ears are already clogged up with blood from my suffering brain. For me it's relevance appears to be the statement being made, rather than the music being played which defeats the point in creeating music. If you want to make statement, get into politics. That's what I say.
Commercial pop music again can be listened to for small amounts of time but I find it all terribly contrived. Acts doing my head in at present are the likes of The Feeling, Scouting For Girls, Lilly Allen and The Hoosiers. Lilly, like the rest it seems, has managed to creep under the proverbial radar of some music people and has somehow gained the respect and reputation of a genuine musician and rock star whilst actually being nothing more than a pampered, privelidged pop star who's path into music stardom was made easy for her from the word go, due to who her parents were and who they knew. I'd love my daddy to know Mark Ronson and get me a recording contract but unfortunately I've got to put in the hard yards first, if I ever get signed. Jealousy? Perhaps. Admiration? Not a chance. While the music has melody, I can't really listen to it. Not at any length. You would though.......
I'm not big on rap/hip-hop music but can definitely listen to it. I find some of the "gangsta" image a bit pretentious but the music itself is ok.
Dance music I cannot stand, especially hardcore, happy-hardcore, commercial pap. I don't know why. Maybe it's consequence of being herded into night clubs as a kid surrounded by utter tools dancing like morons to horrible, repetitive, synthesised beat music with high pitched female vocals churning out what used to be a classic song, but has now been bastardised into a horrible loop with what sounds like UFO's landing on your house. I've had friends try and get me "into it" but if you don;'t like something then you don't like it. The chilled out stuff is ok, and actually chills you out but things like Gate-crasher, Manumission, Creamfields, Global Gathering just do not attract me at all.
Re: What type of music can you just not get into?
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