I post a lot of funk, soul, R&B, etc, but really, I don't think there's a genre of music I don't like.
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@octothorpe Country, rap, techno, pass. That said, occasionally I do enjoy something from them, but overall, nope.
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@CStamp Ah! Not even the classics?? No Dolly? No Loretta Lynn? No Patsy? No Cash? I'm actually kinda surprised by that.
For me, 90% of my love of rap and hip-hop comes from the 80s first and second generation. By the late 90s "Shiny Suit" era (think Puffy, et al) it swayed waaaay too pop/commercial, but it has waves. There's always someone doing something new and interesting.
Techno I don't follow at all, but I love dancing, and getting sweaty. Orb are prob. my fav of the genre.
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@octothorpe I respect the hell out of Dolly as a businesswoman and human being but I cannot stand listening to her. And the rest, no. Grew up with it, as my parents were into it.
I was out east a few years ago and malls, businesses didn't play regular elevator music, they played country music, as did the fellow's relatives. While running errands one day, I realized how hard it was on me mentally while standing at the checkout and a kiosk in front was...
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Digital Mark 位 鈽曪笍 馃暪 馃巸replied to CM Harrington last edited by
@octothorpe I like outlaw country, and a few older soft ones like Bob Denver & Dolly, but modern, law-enforcement country is so fucking awful I can't believe Nashville still exists.
A lot of rap is completely useless to me. But hit me with Public Enemy, Beasties, or Fugees, and I'm cool.
There is very little jazz I can listen to, it's incoherent and that's distracting.
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@CStamp For the longest time there was a lot of amazing music I hated because my parents listened to it. The real problem was they loved REALLY great music. But you're a kid, and you have to rebel! So for years I basically didn't listen to The Doors, Rolling Stones, The Stooges, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Velvet Underground, BB KIng, Most big band-era greats, etc etc.
I'm so glad I'm old enough to go back to all that and enjoy it on my own terms.
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CM Harringtonreplied to Digital Mark 位 鈽曪笍 馃暪 馃巸 last edited by
@mdhughes Yeah, it's really weird to me that Country went from pretty progressive and transgressive stuff to utter fash-bullshit. Patsy Cline sang about being on the stroll! Cash was basically "Fuck the police", etc.
Because I don't know enough about the genre, I'm really curious from an historical perspective on how/why the transition occurred.
Jazz is鈥β營 think like any genre. You have to find a gateway into the rabbit hole, which inevitably leads to Sun Ra.
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@octothorpe @mdhughes My money is on 9/11 being a big catalyst.
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@jackbrewster @mdhughes You may have something there. Which of course is really weird, because 9/11 happened in NYC and DC. Not really bastions of Country music roots.
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Digital Mark 位 鈽曪笍 馃暪 馃巸replied to Jack Brewster last edited by
@jackbrewster @octothorpe That probably moved a lot of them further right, but country was getting bad in late '80s-90s. Note that RevCocks did Beers+Steers+Queers in 1990. Yee-haw.
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CM Harringtonreplied to Digital Mark 位 鈽曪笍 馃暪 馃巸 last edited by
@mdhughes @jackbrewster Gods, I haven't thought about that album in decades!