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Music you are prejudiced against
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Uh, I'm not sure if that's sarcasm or genuine, but just in case, I should point out that Laid Back are Danish..
Although actually that reminds me that I've always found dancehall and the like quite difficult to get into for the homophobic stuff, and I guess that's a prejudice. Although I actually find it kind of funny when a tune like Ramping Shop just drops in the "gays are bad mmkay" line as a sort of throwaway reminder that's irrelevant to the rest of the song.
Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
Only appropriate response I think.
yes, I am the same
This brings home to me how sad the indie thing is.
I mean sure I'd largely abandoned her by 1991 but did she have to let herself go quite so badly?
Hed Kandi - you'll have to convince me I'm just prejudiced and not expressing an aesthetic / ideological distaste. But yeah I'm sure there is good stuff, they are comps after all, it's a certain kind of Bland House (Blouse?) I'm against there.
Amazing to me that people could be against all guitars. I love electronics but guitar music is like so diverse, man. Strings are just oscillators, you can do anything you like with them.
I mean sure I'd largely abandoned her by 1991 but did she have to let herself go quite so badly?
Hed Kandi - you'll have to convince me I'm just prejudiced and not expressing an aesthetic / ideological distaste. But yeah I'm sure there is good stuff, they are comps after all, it's a certain kind of Bland House (Blouse?) I'm against there.
Amazing to me that people could be against all guitars. I love electronics but guitar music is like so diverse, man. Strings are just oscillators, you can do anything you like with them.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I dunno, there are some styles of music that are just so antithetical to everything you like in a song/tune that you can say, fairly safely, that you would never ever like anything in that style. For one thing, you'd have to put the work into listening to it, which you're unlikely to want to do if you can't stand it.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I agree with what you're saying but there's been so many instances in my experience where I've dismissed a genre of music and ended up realising that I was just not giving it a sympathetic/enthusiastic ear that I'm increasingly disinclined to say 'all (such and such) is shit'.
You're right though.
Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
I'd say that musical 'prejudice' does just ammount to a combination of those two kinds of distaste. Not being able to like something in part because you don't like what it stands for at a more general level. Not that I'm necc saying there's anything wrong with that.
3 Body No Problem
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I think Laid Back are Danish so you could probably expect thier Jamiacan Music to be less than what it should be...
I know that LB are from DK. They made a really good song "White Horse", so they are good musicians, yet when they make jamaican music, its ****!
Bang Diddley
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Any person/band who is in the media more for thier crazy antics (man) than their music. YES LADY GAGA this means you.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
What does she actually *do*, though? She's in at least one of those crappy London freesheets every few days, principally for "being dressed in a vaguely outrageous costume at some sort of media/industry event or, occasionally, for a gig". Zomg, let me just collect my jaw from the carpet...
I'm sure there is guitar music that I would like but that's prejudice for you.
I think I feel this way because it's often that when a style of music isn't rhythm/beat based, it all about blaring guitars.
I wouldn't say this is necessarily so.
What I meant was that of course it's a prejudice as it's based on an impression I have of some 'type' of Blouse music from a few things I've heard. It's always prejudice to dismiss an entire style of music based on a limited sample.
So I was kidding about it being an aesthetic / ideological distaste as if to say that there was no hope of there being anything I could appreciate there.
What I mean is that slackk will have to post some links to the good stuff. I don't think there can be a style of music that is irredeemable or that isn't worth listening to for one reason or another. At least i can't think of one.
Bang Diddley
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@ STN's J5 post - reminded me New Rap being all old school. lol
And yet it's precisely the rhythmic nature of it that supposedly had all those repressed suburban parents so panicked about Rock N' Roll in the 1950s.
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
And to be honest, the idea that even indie "has no rhythm" is kind of an imprecise statement. All those guitar riffs and vocal hooks have distinctive rhythms, just not in quite the same way that a dancehall riddim has a distinctive rhythm.
Anyway, I'm developing an increasing prejudice against electronic musicians who go on and on about analogue synths and vintage compressors and tape echos and how the equipment makes the music feel "so alive" whereas without that it'd be "flat and lifeless". As soon as I read an interview along those lines I'm basically itching to get annoyed with their music... it just seems like extreme rockism for people who've got over the idea of sequenced music but still need something to be snobbish and self righteous about.
There is also this orthodoxy in certain scenes (I dunno, I think it ties in with the commercial 'dance' industry) about very particular compression and distortion sounds. At least that's the way the scene guardians would have it, it seems. The bass and drums have to sound exactly like every other record in the DJs set, and that's really all that matters. It's got very little to do with music.
You know the mantras - API2500, Culture Vulture, Distressors...
Who can afford this shit? And you get these people who think they need that to make their stuff sound a certain way, instead of doing their own sound or learning to mix better.
You know the mantras - API2500, Culture Vulture, Distressors...
Who can afford this shit? And you get these people who think they need that to make their stuff sound a certain way, instead of doing their own sound or learning to mix better.