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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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. Sure, there may be a lot of examples within a genre I don't care for, but generally, music played by real musicians is pretty fucking awesome.
Sometimes it's loud and fast. Sometimes it's technical, and delicate. Sometimes it gets your back up off the wall.
But it's always music, and that's pretty fucking great!
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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!