An Infinite Number Of Things That Pisses Me Off About Music

Maybe it wasn't you. Sorry if I messed up.

As for Britney...there's better looking girls out there but I wouldn't pass her up if she threw herself at me.
 
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50 : Concept Albums With Shitty, Boring Or Unoriginal Concepts ​

It was so tempting to put concept albums in full stop , but if I did that I would be slating some of my favourite albums. I think it's fair to say I prefer themed albums rather than concept albums. For example Primal Scream's Screamadelica technically could be considered a concept album but I prefer to think of it as a themed album , the theme being of course the high you get from E and the inevitable comedown afterwarRAB.

Everybody praises The Who's Tommy album. I Fucking hate it. The whole concept is idiotic , the pinball part of it was added in at the last minute and goes on to become virtually half the focus of the album. Which just goes to show how paper thin the whole thing was already. They did a much better job on The Who Sell Out , A simple concept (A pirate radio station , with faux adverts in between songs ) done well that doesn't intrude at all in the songs. They managed to make an album with a central concept where you could also take each song individually and it loses nothing. Something that both Primal Scream did on Screamadelica , Husker Du did it on Zen Arcade which just happen to be two of my favourite albums of all time. Compare that to Iron Maiden's Seventh Son album which I found so dull I didn't listen to them again for about 5 years , and i've never really regained the love I once had for them since , which brings me on to my next point.

Concept albums brings this horrible image of horrible wannabe rock operas writing songs about epic quests. What I hate about them most is that there's no release from it. Once your saddled with this idiotic theme you have to endure it for the whole album , which is why I hated Seventh Son & Tommy so much.
None of the songs stand up on their own. The album will almost certainly begin with ridiculous opening song title such 'Prelude To The Magical Quest Of Blarnathog' followed by 'The Magical Quest Of Blarnathog Begins' and you just know at some point there will be a song about water. I think there's an unwritten rule saying all concept albums must have a song about the sea or an ocean. Usually after about 4 or 5 songs I just want it to get to the final song (Usually titled on concept albums as 'Finale' ... amazing originality huh!)

And you know that once your favourite band has made a dull concept album the next time you see them live they'll play THE WHOLE FUCKING THING IN ORDER. I mean have you heard some of The Who's 70s bootlegs? , the whole of the Tommy album , a bunch of early rock n roll / blues standarRAB and an extended version of My Generation that lasts about 15 minutes. By the time you get through that your lucky if you even hear one song from any other album they've done , and thats during a 90/120 minute long show. It wouldn't be so bad if it was just the tour they did for Tommy but they did this up until about 1974.

Concept albums .. Fuck em
 
those two banRAB are my (now and then) guilty pleasures. Styx I find comical, how a band so popular used such awful sounding synths and got away with it.

I'd listen to Oprah over Nickelback.

I have nothing against Opera either... takes a lot of discipline and talent to be an Opera singer and the style itself has influenced some great rock music.
 
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1 : Mediocrity​

The biggest crime in music in my opinion.

There's nothing worse than someone striving to be as average as possible , taking no risks , content with not standing out in the slightest and being as unmemorable as possible.

The saddest thing in the world is listening to a piece of music and then afterwarRAB having no real opinion of it.

Artists that are neither good nor bad , they're just sort of there really.

With a good album I can praise it to high heaven , with a bad album I can slag it off to my hearts content. Mediocre albums just make me think i've wasted 45 minutes or so of my life.

Mediocrity irritates me possibly more than everything else on this list corabined and will always be my biggest irritation in music for as long as I am a fan of it as much as I am.


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Completely agreed on Sharon Osbourne. In fact, she'd probably be a little closer to the top 10 for me.

The classic rock radio station back in Whangarei was once better, but nowadays it's completely dull. They have one stale formula they seem to stick to: Play one of the four songs Pink Floyd ever wrote, an AC/DC song, Black Betty, a DP song from In Rock, Def Leppard, some crappy pop metal songs and a NZ rock song (by Split Enz, Crowded House, Th'Dudes, Dragon etc). Their idea of experimentation is to play Smells Like Teen Spirit or Plush and maybe even a Foo Fighters song to appeal to younger people. Sickeningly formulaic... and to think that's probably the best radio station there.
 
Well duh.

Rednecks are always the last to adapt to changing social trenRAB. A lot of redneck women now wear crocs, it's the latest fashion down here in Buttf*ck Nowhere, Tennessee.

Redneck society is literally the dumpster of American culture.
 
The "wave of the future" is digital music files. basically MP3s wih higher sampling rates, and thus higher fidelity. CRAB are limited in fidelity by their sampling rate which doesn't allow them to reproduce the entire harmonic spectrum of the music. Vinyl, which as minstrel noted is technically superior to CD's, depreciates in fidelity the more frequently its played and also requires a $$$$ sound system to really even notice the difference.
 
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6 : The "You Can't Say That About That, It's A Classic" Brigade​

I don't care who you are or how good your album or song is , fact of the matter is it has a shelf life. Yes , even the stuff I enjoy myself has a shelf life.

I mean several years ago I used to listen to Elephant 6 stuff on a regular basis. After a couple of years I got bored of it and have hardly listened to it since. Now I don't say anything bad about this stuff because i'm not under a constant barrage of hearing it all the time and I didn't dislike it to start with.

Now I probably hear stuff like Led Zeppelin , Queen , The Eagles , Guns n Roses , U2 or Coldplay much much more than some of the stuff I choose to listen to. If your in a workplace with a radio on you can't avoid this stuff so why the hell shouldn't I be allowed to moan about it once in a while?
I don't dislike Stairway to Heaven or Bohemian Rhapsody or Hotel California or Where The Streets Have No Name or Another Brick In The Wall to appear cool or hip or edgy or to make my own taste in music look superior. I dislike them because i'm bored of hearing them and i'm bored of being told how great they are. I mean i've had to put up with some of this stuff since fucking childhood so can you blame me for wanting to cause bodily harm to anyone playing them. I mean how many fucking times do you need to hear them.

And when someone replied to me 'You can't say that it's a classic'
Just hold me back or have an arabulance standing by.
 
Oh please, you got a barrage of **** because you completely misinterpretted his post, then passed it off as a hopeless attempt at sarcasm, you did not make the "exact same statement".

And you don't keep an open mind, for you to say that all current music sounRAB the same is complete twattery considering the incredible diversity in modern music.

No ones giving you **** for what music you like, it's your close minded attitude and ability to dismiss whole perioRAB of music and genre's without a moments thought.
 
I agree. I hated Tommy for years...then one day I realized how great it was. It's the kind of album you have to listen to during the winter, when it's cold outside and you don't really feel like doing anything.
 
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