Songs that Need to Go Away

**MotoZ** · 05-14-08, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by WorstPE

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ASIA!

Nothing wrong to you. Only Time Will Tell was our senior class song in high school. It got played right the fu** out for me.

**PizzaSHARK!** · 05-14-08, 02:33 PM

Anything on the "popular music" or "top 40" stations.

Anything by bands like Hinder, Saving Abel, Atreyu, Three Days Grace, 3 Doors Down... (it's a very, very long list.)

Really, anything made by people who don't know what music really is. I usually look for lyrical and musical complexity when I look for new bands - if they don't have it, I don't support them. If they don't know what notes they're playing, and state everything flat-out in their lyrics in every single song, I'm probably going to hate them. If they make frequent use of complex metaphors and other lyrical devices (similes are alright, but they tend to be very basic) and musical devices like syncopation, I'll probably at least enjoy listening to them.

Just seems to me that most people making what they think is music today are in it for the money more than the music. I'm not gonna say that's bad, because if I can make a hundred thousand a year playing the same three chords while some moron sings lyrics with all the complexity of a third-grader's poetry, I'd do it. I'd just hate myself while doing so.

**DJ Ms. White** · 05-14-08, 02:36 PM

Kate Nash is pretty good yet she doesn't use complex metaphors much. Good stuff she is and a friend of Lily Allen.

**enf** · 05-14-08, 04:04 PM

Originally Posted by Glock

I'd just hate myself while doing so.

Hate myself all the way to the bank! haha

**Consultant** · 05-15-08, 07:38 AM

Originally Posted by dex71

Originally Posted by Consultant

Music is an art-form and art is inherently subjective, but because YOU and your friends/fellow-critics dont like something doesnt make it bad.

How artistically ignorant of anybody to dismiss an entire genre, especially one like "rap" (if you can even define it without mentioning race) which generates bajillions of dollars of record sales each year.

In the mean time, I'm gonna go get crunk on my lunch break and rock out to some T-Pain and Flo-Rida.

You had me..then you lost me..

You're right,music is subjective.That makes us ALL critics.Therefore it is my right to dismiss an entire genre if that is my opinion(which together with $5 will get you a small coffee at Starbucks).
I'm not really sure what you meant when you said Rap couldn't be defined without mentioning race.Are you talking about the predominatly black people who make it,or the suburban white kids who buy it?Lets not forget that Rock and Roll was invented by blacks,and we can define that without bringing up race.Most Rock and Country music is based in the blues...which was invented and perfected by blacks.
The almighty dollar is not a representation of quality.Some of the best music ever made was written by people who died broke.Mozart is buried in a mass grave because he didn't have enough money for a formal buriel.He isn't really my cup of tea,but he is still regarded(300 years later )as one of the best composers to ever walk the planet,and his influence is still felt today.
I think we have lost sight of this thread (which I am guilty of with my sweeping generalizations and blanket statements),which was really,What songs have been played to death on radios and jukeboxes?
If T-Pain and Flo-Rita have the groove that makes your booty move...thats great..more power to ya.But will they still hold that groove in 20-30 years after you've heard them 50 billion times?Not likely...That was the original intent of this thread,and I'm sorry for my part in hijacking it.

I totally agree that for the MOST part, they quit making music that will stand the test of time a while ago...there are some that will last, but in 30 years, I doubt you'll be hearing Korn on the classic rock station or MC Hammer on the Golden Oldies station...

It's funny - when I was a kid, the music that was 20 or so years old was made in the 60's and my dad listened to it with me in the car....now a days, the music that is 20 years old was made in the 80's and in another 10 years when my daughter is 12, the music that will be 20 years old will be from the late 90's...I'll be listening to Nirvana or Metallica or Run DMC and they will be like "God, dad - you are so old!"

**ninja|oaklandr** · 05-15-08, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by Consultant

I totally agree that for the MOST part, they quit making music that will stand the test of time a while ago...there are some that will last, but in 30 years, I doubt you'll be hearing Korn on the classic rock station or MC Hammer on the Golden Oldies station...

What? "U Can't Touch This" this will live on forever.

**angryarab** · 05-15-08, 08:56 AM

lol yea i thought about that toobut itll be a while until
ill be seen as old lol

**punish3r** · 05-15-08, 02:29 PM

Just about any rap song that involves a superhero, drinking crystal, etc.
Not to say that I don't respect the rap genre, though, as there are some really talented people. I like music for the message/meaning it gives me, so I can respect people like Eminem, Fort Minor, some of Puff Daddy/Puffy/P-Diddy/Diddy/wtfever's stuff.
I do think it's a bit silly and ignorant to dismiss an entire genre though. You can love country all you want, that doesn't make Big and Rich, Cowboy Troy, Rodney Atkins, and Gretchen Wilson any better, though.
And lets be honest, Garth Brooks is the man. But unfortunately some of his most popular songs are also his worst, Friends in Low Places and Aint Goin' Down Till the Sun Comes Up just to name two. He's got some very awesome songs (Red Strokes, Shameless, Standing Outside the Fire, The Dance, and More Than a Memory (his best song imo)) but he's also got those afformentioned bad songs. The point I'm making is that you can't classify one genre or even one artist as purely good, or purely bad.