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saturnine1979:
that's totally cool. i'm not going to say that everyone should listen to everything for the sake of saying "i'm open"; i just take offense when people write off an entire genre for seemingly invalid reasons. i suppose you don't even really need a valid reason to say that you dislike a genre, but it doesn't sit right with me when people don't, just because i love music, and i try to keep an open ear for everything.
i'm guilty though. i've mostly written off noise rock after listening to Wolf Eyes' Burned Mind. but, you know, if something comes along that's better, maybe i'll change my mind about the genre.
Storm Rider:
--- Quote from: saturnine1979 ---that's totally cool. i'm not going to say that everyone should listen to everything for the sake of saying "i'm open"; i just take offense when people write off an entire genre for seemingly invalid reasons. i suppose you don't even really need a valid reason to say that you dislike a genre, but it doesn't sit right with me when people don't, just because i love music, and i try to keep an open ear for everything.
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I dislike rap because it's mindlessly repetitive. Spoken vocals that don't even require pitch changes over computer-manufactured drum beats and sampling. I'm not subconsciously racist, I just don't think that constitutes quality music.
Unless you consider "Amish Paradise" and "Couch Potato" by Weird Al actual rap.
saturnine1979:
--- Quote ---Spoken vocals that don't even require pitch changes over computer-manufactured drum beats and sampling
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Hey! You just described The Books! :P
I understand your issues with rap/hip-hop, though.
Simulacra:
SOME BANDS THAT ARE GOOD:
Gorillaz
Postal Service
Orbital
The Cars (I know, old school, deal with it)
Jimmy Eat World
SOME BANDS THAT ARE AWFUL
anything country
Bob Dylan
Jewel
Good Charlotte
Gwen Stefani
BANDS THAT ARE VASTLY OVERRATED
Interpol
Arcade Fire
Green Day
Franz Ferdinand
Modest Mouse
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Storm Rider ---
I dislike rap because it's mindlessly repetitive. Spoken vocals that don't even require pitch changes over computer-manufactured drum beats and sampling.
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I could say this, but it would bely the amount of industrial I listen to. One could make these criticisms about Laibach, but somehow I love Laibach. It has to do, more in my mind, with the use these kind of things are put to. An american dude in trainers rapping over funky beats doesn't cut it for me, but a gravelly-voiced slovenian pretty much speaking over heavy as fuck 909 loops, simple guitar and sample choirs and military marches somehow works perfectly, even though you could never claim that it is less repetitive, less cliche, whatever.
It all comes down to dancing, I think. Hip hop is, after all, pretty much dance music, and if I can't stomp, mosh, headbang or gothdance (tm) to something, I'd rather not hit the floor. Others of course would prefer to sit it out, no matter how many times Milan says "KOMERADE, KOMM TANZ MIT MIR!"
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