Music you just hate!

[janice]

but what I almost always really don't find pleasant is country music, lol.

YES!!! I DETEST country western music!!!

[Spatula]

Don't break my heart...my achy breaky heart!

 

That was from this dude called billy ray cyrus??? yeah a 1 hit wonder country.... 

[Spatula]

Boy!  This post could go on forever from me!  You'd think as a music nut I'd like everything, but I don't.  I have some major pet peeves, including, but not limited to:

Piano sonatas with horrendously Lengthy slow movements - Not only is the audience checking their watches to figure out how long they have to sit there, but the pianist is probably falling asleep playing the thing.  Schubert and Mozart were famous for this.

Most Russian music of the epic sort.  I think the composers were paid based on how *nationalistic* they were thought of, so their compositions were louder, bigger, longer, blah, blah blah, till mercifully the things end.  Yuk.

Modern compositions where they were trying so obviously hard to be *clever* or *brilliant* or *different* or whatever drives those guys, that it's obvious to me they couldn't think of a damned thing, but the deadline was coming up, so they tossed something out there and got their agent to push it.  I think most modern composition falls into this category - not all, though.

Music that's hard to play, but doesn't sound hard when it's done.  The Bach French Suite I am currently working on is like this.  When it's all put together, it'll sound like something you'd have any ten year old crank out.  Makes no sense to me at all.  If it's going to BE hard, it needs to SOUND hard when it's done.  No longer a guideline, it's a rule with me now.

That's about it for this post.  More to come I am sure.

Mindy

2nd movement of appassionata....oh god get done with the chords already.

I hear ya. 

[Spatula]

i hate bach, mozart, wagner, and all these old boring guys before 1890, all their *noise* is the same. nothing unique. perhaps piano technique was still not very evolved at their epoch, but tahts no excuse! shame on them for always repeating the same patterns!

I believe many people (on this forum at least) like Chopin and he was DEFINATELY before 1890...think thats only 10 years to 1900!

Beethoven....etc etc etc you've got a whole slew of awesome composers trashed down the drain.  My oh my. 

[Tash]

oh this thread is so sad! the only music i really can't stand is pop, rap, the apparent 'normal' music of today it drives me insane. i've gotten myself to the point where i pretty much love all types of classical music from bach to chopin to prokofiev to phillip glass. sure i pick certain pieces over others because i love them more, but i can't say i outrightedly despise any single composer.

[Spatula]

Elevator Music lah de lah day

[Ludwig Van Rachabji]

I LOVE elevator music!

[Sketchee]

I would just like to add that I love rap and hiphop.  I don't hate country but I don't like it either.

[Spatula]

I LOVE elevator music!

um. ok

[hodi]

most of haydn's sonatas are so boring you can fall to deep sleep while hearing them (with the exception of the c minor and the e-flat major sonatas)

[kaff]

Happy clappy modern Christian music, the kind with tambourine, a baritone and a wannabe-pop-singer soprano singing in unison (almost), where every song is in 4/4 time, has four bars to every line, and goes tonic, subdominant, dominant, tonic.  Sometimes the odd relative minor thrown in just to prove it's meaningful. 

How is it possible that over a couple of centuries, Christian music has gone from Allegri's Miserere, or Mozart's C minor Mass, to that?  God gone deaf in his old age or what?

Kathryn

[dinosaurtales]

LOL!  I'm with you on that one!

[BoliverAllmon]

rap and country sucks, really anything on popular radio sucks.

[Brian Healey]

I hate AVRIL LAVIGNE and i don't know if i spelled that name right!

Lord, thank you! She pisses me off more than anyone because her whole image is about being all "punk', when in reality she's no more punk than Britney Spears.

I agree somewhat with the person who said they dislike Bach. I used to dislike Bach very much until I really got deep into studying jazz piano, and I realized how much Bach can teach the jazz pianist.  Now I play Bach quite frequently.

[frederic]

haha some really funny responses!
I used to hate those dissonant 20th century music but now i think im starting to like them. I am now learning the piano part of the Quartet for the End of Time by Messiaen. Really loving it! Anyone know this work?

[Skeptopotamus]

messiaen.

[pianobabe56]

I'm pretty much okay with anyting- except incredibly erotic rap songs, and hippy country crap. I LOVE punk/alternative, love jazz, classical, religious, choral, whatever else you have, I pretty much love it.

For the longest time I really didn't like Beethoven, merely because I didn't understand what he wanted out of his music, but as I study things, I tend to grow to love them, and now Beethoven is another personal favorite!

[Muzakian]

Hate's a pretty strong word... but some music just evokes such emotions. 
I don't hate any classical music, although compared to many people here I'm unfamiliar with much of it. I just think classical composers all have so much to offer that to find nothing of value you'd have to be not listening very hard, if at all.

On the other hand, I hate most pop (I use that term in the broad sense). The "vocals" in death metal music put me right off the genre. The vocals in punk music are pretty bad too, as are the instrumental parts (i.e. basslines that just repeat the same note forever, and thrashy drums). Rap and hip-hop I shall not speak of. In fact just about all pop songs have such simple, repetitve structures, and NO motivic development at all that it's just plain boring.

[musicsdarkangel]

I hate most contemporary, I'd rather just listen to Barok's atonal works.

I like contermporary  only if it deals with textures, and does it well.             

I don't enjoy Bach's WTC as much as most, but enjoy some suites.

I hate slow movements from Mozart that never have direction.


I also can't stand Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Beethoven, and Jimi Hendrix. (i'm not serious about that.)

[goldfish]

and yes, Clair de lune too - elevator music - .

Well right there we have a disagreement 

Debussy's music, Clair de lune especially, takes you to another world, somewhere beautiful, enigmatic and strange. Its transcendent music!

Now if you'd said Fur Elise ... 


goldfish

[SteinwayTony]

           

I don't enjoy Bach's WTC as much as most, but enjoy some suites.

Speaking of which, if you're having trouble sleeping, get Till Felner's Book I.  Not to say it's performed poorly (I quite like it myself), but it's almost too soothing.  I feel like I shouldn't want to take a two hour nap when I hear the Well-Tempered Clavier.

[Ant1]

i like romantic and baroque music, but mozart and beethoven r shite, they just pack the pieces fulll of notes, bach has some utterly outstanding pieces if you have the musicality to hear it in them. especcially his polyphonic pieces

[Floristan]

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture and Beethoven's Wellington's Victory...

...plus anything by Yanni. 

[SteinwayTony]

mozart and beethoven r shite, they just pack the pieces fulll of notes

I think that in a thread with "hate" in the title, the "haters" owe the "hatees" the respect that composers deserve. 

You, a presumably mediocre pianist who routinely butchers their works because your teacher assigns them to you, have no right to post that message about them, especially because your allegations are false, not to mention undefended. 

So, until you think you have the time to support that worthless post (decent spelling and grammar are a plus), you should keep your mouth shut about two of the greatest composers ever to have lived.

[Ant1]

Steinway tony, i thoroughly enjoyed your remark in a different topic about twitching like a retard and drooling.  a similar effect takes place when i am tortured by some Mozart / Beethoven music in an inescapable situation.

I can't believe that anyone can enjoy listening to Mozart or Beethoven , most audiences - halfwits -like to hear a tune they can recognise once in a while, but to say they are good is ludicrous.

[aquariuswb]

I can't believe that anyone can enjoy listening to Mozart or Beethoven , most audiences - halfwits -like to hear a tune they can recognise once in a while, but to say they are good is ludicrous.

To say that Mozart and Beethoven are good is ludicrous!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

You clearly lack ears, mind, and soul.

[SteinwayTony]

To say that Mozart and Beethoven are good is ludicrous!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

You clearly lack ears, mind, and soul.

Not much to be done, I'm afraid.  Another pompous goofball who only likes piano-only composers.

[LVB op.57]

Most popular music around today lacks substace. There are exceptions, however.
I can't really say that I hate one particular genre. I believe there is at least some good music in every genre, though some have more than others.
Anyway, back to the topic. I really dislike some of Mozart's piano music. Not concerti, but his solo piano music, like sonatas. I find it boring, and I think he is at his best in his operas.

[lenny]

i dont hate any music, some i am more apathetic to, but i cant see how one can actually hate a piece of music..

[apion]

I hate Dvorak's Piano Concerto.  It's a pile of crap.  (nothing personal, Antonin).

[chopinisque]

I dislike rap, most metal and some of the pop lately.  Also, I don't understand Mahler and am really bored everytime I hear a Haydn.  Some of Bartok doesn't digest well either.

[SteinwayTony]

I dislike rap, most metal and some of the pop lately.  Also, I don't understand Mahler and am really bored everytime I hear a Haydn.  Some of Bartok doesn't digest well either.

Mahler and Bartok are very understandable names (though I'm sure you prefer "don't understand" to "hate").

Mahler is not easy to get into; it's certainly an acquired taste.  I made the mistake of hearing my first Mahler at the CSO.  What was the problem with that?  It was a 90 minute symphony, and I couldn't escape.  I've found that he's a lot easier to handle when you are able to choose when, where, and how you listen to it.  You have to want to appreciate Mahler.  He is the romantic master of the symphony, most will agree, and I think that everyone, on some level, understands the greatness of his symphonies (they just might not know why). 

If you want to get into Bartok, play around with some of the Mikrokosmos for piano.  Or get the newly released disc of Boulez conducting three different world-class pianists (Zimerman, Andsnes, Grimaud) with three different world-class orchestras (CSO, BPO, LSO) in Bartok's three piano concertos.  It's an absolutely fabulous release.

[frederic]

messiaen.

umm...wat r ya trying to say?

[hodi]

what is an elevator music?
btw......... some of haydn's piano music is boring..

[lenny]

what is an elevator music?
btw......... some of haydn's piano music is boring..

i think haydn really cool, i dont really think mozart is superior.

elevator music is 'muzak' thats played in elevators in classy hotels

ive never heard any though, im not classy enough

[BoliverAllmon]

I am beginning to really detest Chopin. I am tired of hearing crap interpretations of the same five songs (exaggeration I know, but you get the point). I have never been  huge Chopin fan, but with terrible recordings, I am getting less and less of a fan.

I can't stand music that is unique for the sake of being unique and has no purpose. Most popular music falls into this category. i agree with the contemporary Christian music scene. Worldly music isn't tons better.

boliver

[lenny]

chopin's songs are actually sung too infrequently, his songs are really good.

[BoliverAllmon]

chopin's songs are actually sung too infrequently, his songs are really good.

ooops, I meant pieces. I was thinking of all the crap songs on the radio when typing.

[frederic]

Agree with you lenny...But the Liszt transcription of Maiden's Wish is played quite enough!

[Floristan]

Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty" 

[dinosaurtales]

Floristan is back!  Did you ever receive that music I sent ages ago?

[Lance Morrison]

I for a while really hated J.S. Bach.....but then I realized that it isn't his fault that no other early composer gets any credit for the work they did....however, I still think the Goldberg's are a bit lacking...I am really annoyed by the tocatta and fugue in d minor because it's a spurious piece, many scholars dont believe he wrote it, i agree with them

sometimes I really find Wagner to be uncreative; more often I'd rather just listen to early Schönberg so I can enjoy the emotional music but don't have to be pissed off at the use of leitmotivs

I've come to the conclusion that hating any music is awfully silly

[jono]

I don't hate any special genre of music (accept for hip hop). Instead I have favourites. But I really can't stand predictable classical (mostly violin classic) music, where you know most of the melody before ever listened to the piece!  Certain trillo:s and chords that is so overused so you can vomit!    Like many works by Mozart and Schubert. The pieces should have personality!! 
Take care /Jono

[jas]

Musak. It's just the worst invention of all time. It's boring, unpleasant to listen to, makes an absolute mockery of music. Just ... argh.
It should be banned from everywhere. And whoever invented it should be tarred and feathered and lobbed off a cliff.
(It's something I feel strongly about. )

Jas

[dinosaurtales]

Ya know, I suspect that Muzak is how some people view classical music (violins, you know).  Should they be tarred and feathered, too?  It would be okay with me.,

[chopiabin]

Grieg's piano concerto makes me want to throw up

If I ever hear the *** Fantaisie Impromptu (or op.9 #2) again I might die

I get sick of Schubert really fast - a lot of his music just seems predictable and "salonesque"

Certain overinflated pieces by Liszt can get really annoying

And a good bit of impressionistic music gets on my nerves - I like about three Debussy pieces, and the rest just seem so pastel and fluffy that they make me feel like I've eaten too much cotton candy.

[dinosaurtales]

Woa!  Chop!  Dead on!  Especially the impressionistic stuff.  It sort of sneaks up on you.  I'll be at a recital where there are 3 or 4 Debussy's in a row, and the first I will think is "kinda nice"  and then about a minute into the second one, it'll be like " didn't we just hear something like thsi already?"

We do French stuff in the band ocassionally and I think it's the harmonies they like to use.  they are just sticky sweet - like that bag of cotton candy.  Gets to me really quickly. 

[Floristan]

Floristan is back! Did you ever receive that music I sent ages ago?

What music, DT?  My long-term memory isn't functioning today...   

[dinosaurtales]

The Cramer Sonata. 

[apion]

I hate the 1st movement of Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto (except for the opening 4 minutes).  And to think that people actually like this piece?  Pauses ...... transitions ...... awkward passages ...... GOD, PLEASE JUST STRIKE ME DEAD.