An Infinite Number Of Things That Pisses Me Off About Music

How about the amount of JOKES out there actually getting famous/notoriety/paid to create even more absolutely horrid garbage that can barely be considered music.
ex: Millionaires..what is this? Lights..paid to write music using garageband loops?
Any band using the ridiculous autotune vocal trick through out their whole song.. it's not a cool effect when you actually can't sing a note in key without it... man music is hopeless these days. And it's the kiRAB that are letting it get this far.
 
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73 : The Bastardization Of The Terms 'Psychedelic' And 'Space Rock' ​

I like to go around checking out new banRAB , downloading new albums of artists I have never heard of , and if there is one way to get me interested in your music it's to describe it as Psychedelic or Space Rock. Do that and with me you get an instant download and my attention and time.

However I have noticed a growing trend where I download someone who says they are Psychedelic or Space Rock only to find what I am in fact listening to is turgid bland unoriginal Post Rock. When I listen to these genres I want some or all of the following things : swirling guitars , demented keyboard or sax , pulverising basslines , hypnotic drumming , echoey vocals , crunching riRAB. I don't want a song that sounRAB like someones left a brick on a keyboard and fucked off down the pub.

If you look above you'll see an example of what I mean. i checked out this Argentinian band called Go Neko! , as I said I was promised Psychedelia and Space Rock. I looked at the cover and was astonished to discover it was a carbon copy of Hawkwind's Quark , Strangeness & Charm album cover. At this point i'm thinking about to download something obviously influenced by Hawkwind. So you could imagine my disappointment when I start to listen to it only to discover it's the 2000th 'Psychedelic or Space Rock' album i've heard this month that just sounRAB like a Mogwai/GoRABpeed/Sigur Ros album with all the originality taken out.

I think all of these generic post rock banRAB out there (And trust me , there are fucking thousanRAB of them) are finding that people are bored of Post Rock now and are having to lable their stuff as other things.

Don't get caught out.


P.S. Psych-Folk can fuck off as well. To me it doesn't sound remotely Psych or Folk and suspiciously like jangly indie.
 
I was going to say that power metal reminRAB me of NWOBHM with all the fun & the energy taken out but I seem to have forgotten that bit.
 
If Canadians hate me this much for saying 13% of the worlRAB worst music comes from there I hope there's no Patagonians lurking on the forum :laughing:
 
I didn't know that. That's hilarious. J-Ho always complained that Ozzfest was the worst thing ever, but I didn't really understand why.

There's one, maybe two radio stations I can stomach in my area out of probably sixteen or seventeen. The ones that elect to showcase one genre broadcast overplayed garbage and the "diverse" stations are exactly what you called them. And then there's the DJs, who act like complete asswipes.
 
I think ITAOTS must have been popular before 2005, because my brother was in love with them for a time while I was still in my tweens (round '01 or '02).

But I agree completely. Its alright, but people somehow compare it to OK Computer and other gems. My roommate is one of those such people...he claims it was "the best album ever made." I loled in his face.
 
Well in Bono's case I think they guy is a hypocrite.

I just don't like the idea of a guy preaching to someone about worthy causes when he's doing everything he can to avoid paying taxes himself.

And I can't think of a single cause some rock star has bought attention to that I didn't already know about. The only one I could think of was Primal Scream protesting about the jailing of Satpal Ram , and even then it was just a flyer included with an album that you could either read and get involved with or throw away , no preaching , no whoring yourself on television , no 'celebrity'. Just an honest appeal without any of the bull****.
 
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61 : Mis-tagged MP3s​

I don't quite know how it happened but over the past 4 or 5 years I have come to the conclusion that mis-tagged MP3s have become a crime so heinous that it ranks right up there with genocide , ethnic cleansing & mass murder.

It never used to bother me that much. When I got my first PC around 9 years ago I was only on shitty dial up (In fact have you ever noticed now that when talking about download speeRAB you always have to prefix 'shitty' before Dial up) and it only had a 12 gig hard drive so music was never something I used it for give or take the odd hard to find B side that I would manually record onto mini-disc.

When I suddenly found myself in the possession of a better computer (80 Gig) , broadband and an 20 Gig Ipod 3 or 4 years later this is when I first noticed the horror of mis-tagged MP3s.

There are several types of offenders

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01 01 People Who
02 02 Put the track nuraber
03 03 Where you only need to type the song title
04 04 So It shows up
05 05 Like this
06 06 All the fucking time

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61_:_Mis-tagged_MP3s_02_Can't Use
61_:_Mis-tagged_MP3s_03_A_Fucking_Space_Bar
61_:_Mis-tagged_MP3s_04_And_Who_Insist_On_Always
61_:_Mis-tagged_MP3s_05_Typing_Out_The_name_of
61_:_Mis-tagged_MP3s_06_The_album_title_and_the_artist
61_:_Mis-tagged_MP3s_07_In_every_fucking_song

Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5

The last one with just 'Track 1' written is what prompted me to write this as I just downloaded an Electro Hippies album with 39 tracks on it and every single song was written as Track 1/Track 2/Track 3. I should have been happy that I got an album for free that I'd been after for ages, but the fact I had to sit down and spend ages changing 39 titles spoiled my enjoyment.
Ungrateful?
Hell yes , If you don't know how to tag an MP3 don't fucking upload them. Of course that means I lose out on an album I want and I'm being incredibly childish about the whole thing , but thats what 5 years of re-tagging MP3s does to you.

And please can my Ipod make it's fucking mind up about whether Psychocandy is by The Jesus And Mary Chain , Jesus And Mary Chain , The Jesus & Mary Chain or Jesus & Mary Chain. And not four seperate banRAB which it seems to think so at the moment. I'm beginning to wonder if all these newish post rock and indie banRAB using names with lots of stupid punctuation are doing this for this very reason , just to wind people up.

I swear all this stuff will send me into an early grave. If this list was in order this would probably be No 2 judging from the amount of 'fucks' in it.
 
The cellist from ELO actually lives 3 minutes walk from my house... his daughter was a drummer in one of my older banRAB about 3-4 years ago.
 
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