Music you just hate!

[willcowskitz]

I agree that 'hate' is a word little too strong to describe the feeling, but...


From classical...

I can't stand Fantasie Impromptu by you-know-who.

Hearing the 18th variation of Rachmaninow's Paganini Rhapsody makes me want to be somewhere else.

Volodos' transcription of Mozart's Turkish March sounds too much like the whole point of the piece is lost, can't appreciate it.

Couperin's excessive use of trills tires my ears out, physically.

Some orchestral arrangement of Liszt's 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody was pretty silly and made the piece sound... ummm... ghey.

Xenakis' earbreaker pieces... break my ears.

I really can't say its comfortable to listen to certain Cziffra's recordings, they literally hurt my ears. Too bad, because I love his interpretations.

Arvo Pärt. I've only heard a piece or two from him that appeal to me. The rest sounds empty.

Some Messiaen sounds like chromatically improvised nonsense trying to keep the listener active by freaking them out with loud noises once in a while.

I think Rachmaninow's playing sounds dry, especially in contrast to his technical virtuousity. The guy hated performing, so I guess one could expect to hear it.


From other genres:

Avril Lavigne. Hahah I didn't even know who she was, or was supposed to be, until recently, but I already hate her.

Rap with meaningless lyrics and uninteresting rhythmics. What a total waste of potent form of expression.

"Soul" pop music. Hahahahaha, this one makes me crack up. I'm talking about female pop-icons or whatever they like to title themselves, singing in a slow fashion on pointless electronic backgrounds, trying to compensate the shallowness of the musical content by trying to appear as if they're expressing deep emotion and thought by phrasing melody and lyrics in slightly off-rhythm emphasises, as if they're making heavy points on each occasion.

All the generated pop music that plays on radio and TV. Pop-rock. Rock used to be about breaking rules and freeing the mind, or something. Now, "rock" is just stuck up in methods and patterns, and needs a new "rock" phenomenon to revolutionize it. Distortion effect used to be handled with taste, now it is only abused to create background noise to purposelly drive a song into certain level of dissonance to cover up the actual melodic-harmonic dissonances that the piece fundamentally possesses. Cheap. This music really is bad for ears.


Generally, movie soundtracks are often surprisingly blank when taken out of the context. Somebody, having seen a movie, plays some movie soundtrack to me - I'm like "That's nice. Doesn't sound wrong. Doesn't sound especially interesting either, though." -People don't always realize how much of the power of music in movies or games is based on associations between their other senses and memory that brings them all together in an even more perfect form. I don't hate film music, just thought this was an interesting realization.

[kilini]

The Fantaisie is starting to get on my nerves. My whole brain knows that I am just learning it to show off, and I don't even like it.
Ugh.

[SteinwayTony]

Hearing the 18th variation of Rachmaninow's Paganini Rhapsody makes me want to be somewhere else.

Come on, anything featured on the cult classic Groundhog Day can't be all that bad! 

[Floristan]

The Cramer Sonata.

No.  Don't remember anything about it.  Maybe you've mistaken me for someone else? 

[dinosaurtales]

Must be.  There are just sooooo many men!

[freddychopin]

I hate:
Beethoven - Für Elise
Mozart - Rondo ala Turka
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata 1th movement

I hear them every where! Any place, any time. I just want to kill people who play them more than once a month.

[bachmaninov]

I hate at least one piece by every composer, just because it is overplayed...

Chopin: Fantasie Impromptu (Every asian as slaughtered this one at one point in their life)

Mozart: Rondo Alla Turca!! CURSE YOU!!!!

Liszt: La Crapanella

(I hate all impressionistic music - sorry thats the way I am)

Rach 3! I hate the Rach 3 simply because people talk about it too much...

[freddychopin]

Rach 3! I hate the Rach 3 simply because people talk about it too much...

I totally agree about that.

[DarkWind]

(I hate all impressionistic music - sorry thats the way I am)

What have you listened of impressionistic music?

[SteinwayTony]

Moonlight Sonata 1th movement

Me too.  In fact, I hate the 2rd and the 3st to boot.

[dinosaurtales]

OK "hate" may be too strong a word to use, but I just cringe when a recitalist sits down for an encore and plays "Claire de Lune".  Makes me think he's from some village in West Virginia or something where that's considered "fancy" music.  Just an image that hits me whenever I hear it.  "gosh darn it martha!  i just love it when that guy played claire de lune - it's just Ssooooooo romantic!"

[apion]

Rach 3! I hate the Rach 3 simply because people talk about it too much...

Liar. 

You hate Rach3 for the same reason I hate Rach3: It's too f#*cking difficult.

Say it.

Say it.

[Derek]

String quartets by Mozart and most by Beethoven bore me to tears. Most of the piano sonatas by both men bore me to tears, except five or six of Beethoven's and maybe three of Mozart's.

I really hate Arnold Schoenberg's music. Most of it sounds like an explosion in a farmyard.

That doesn't go for all atonal music however,  I really like a lot of late Scriabin and some of Keith Jarrett's atonal passages. And my own atonal experiments.

[dinosaurtales]

I really hate Arnold Schoenberg's music. Most of it sounds like an explosion in a farmyard.

I'm gonna really have to remember that explosion in a farmyard line.  I like it! 

[Lance Morrison]

 

[musik_man]

I think it's sad that so many people hate popular classics.  I still get a rush out of playing Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca, and probably still will for years to come.  Stop trying to act elitist with your tastes.  There's a reason these pieces are so popular; they're great, regardless of how often they are played.

[stormx]

I think it's sad that so many people hate popular classics.  I still get a rush out of playing Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca, and probably still will for years to come.  Stop trying to act elitist with your tastes.  There's a reason these pieces are so popular; they're great, regardless of how often they are played.

I completely agree.
For instance, to hate "Fur Elise" seems to be a sign of status and good taste (at least on this forum)... 

[SteinwayTony]

There's a reason these pieces are so popular; they're great, regardless of how often they are played.

Not necessarily.  I've been thinking about this for a while.  I think that the so-called "warhorses" (Fur Elise, Rondo Alla Turca [technically not the title of the piece incidentally], etc.) are considered "great" by the public because they are simple and easy to digest.  This theory begins to make sense when you consider the fact that it is not the entire piece that is famous.  The middle section, you will realize, is not as recognizable by the non-piano player; it is only the simple A minor theme of I-V-I.  Great?  Not really.  Memorable?  Definitely.  Let's be honest: Fur Elise is just another bagatelle.

Let's try another example: how about Rachmaninoff's second Piano Concerto.  The general public could care less about the twenty minutes of filler.  Give them the "great" stuff -- the recognizable themes of the second and third movements -- and they're happy; for all they care, Rachmaninoff could have just stuck the themes into a bagatelle-esque piece for solo piano, and the result would be no less than a work of genius.

The so-called "great" works to which Musik_Man refers may be great indeed, but not necessarily; the third movement to Mozart's A minor sonata, K.331, is just another third movement to me.  But it's only great because it is simple.

[musik_man]

The so-called "great" works to which Musik_Man refers may be great indeed, but not necessarily; the third movement to Mozart's A minor sonata, K.331, is just another third movement to me. But it's only great because it is simple.

I'll agree with you here.  Not all overplayed pieces are necessarily masterworks.  Of course, we can't really have an objective arguement about their qualities as music is subjective.  The point I really wanted to make was that it's stupid to dislike a piece simply because it's popular.  It's just as stupid as disliking pieces because they aren't popular.

Also, simplicity is not always a bad thing.  Some of the best pieces of piano music are very simple.

[hodi]

i really don't understand why people find scriabin's sonatas so great, i can't like them! and i tried to listen to them few times.

[DarkWind]

i really don't understand why people find scriabin's sonatas so great, i can't like them! and i tried to listen to them few times.

They are simply masterworks. Which ones have you listened to? Try the First or the Fifth. Also, the sheer color in his later sonatas are overwhelming. You try composing so mystically, with such insane rythms. It isn't easy!

[LVB op.57]

I know Fur Elise is not the favorite piece of many seasoned pianists, but that's not it's purpose. It's a student piece, written to help prepare beginners for bigger works, so you can't really judge Beethoven on it.

[paris]

i don't like pieces which in their names have ''pastorale''.  ughhh...when i hear something like that, i imagine sheeps and hills...and everything is idyllic and happy...            

[dinosaurtales]

Yeah sheeps and hills would make me grouchy too.