Wankiest musical genre?
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Yossarian said:
and they always take up the nicest portion of music shops on the top floor with leather arm chairs and shit.
ok, granted the jazz and world music sections are up there too, but the classical sections are always nicer.you people who say jazz/jazz funk is wanky: infidels!
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
i'd probably go along with Death Metal, as a kind of strange outsider genre. Country Music is too general and mainstream to get my vote. The flip side of course would be Happy Hardcore. While simultaneously being the wankiest of music genres, a carcinoid offshoot of the rave canon, it's also fascinating that it exists at all and you can't help but be intrigued by it.
Cid
Proper break this time
Madusa said:and they always take up the nicest portion of music shops on the top floor with leather arm chairs and shit.
you people who say jazz/jazz funk is wanky: infidels!
Nah, jazz funk is wank... Jazz on the other hand is not, admittedly it's taken wankery quite well in the last 30 years, but there are still good players out there and there are still some nice, smoky jazz bars.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
r&b. fucking godawful howling with the musical value of french fries.
LDR
kiwitanga
Country Music speaks the soul of the common folk. It reflects the concerns, hopes, faith, perseverence, disappointments and blues of everyday folks as no other music has.wishface said:
I can understand why people don't like it and fair enough but it's certainly not the wankiest musical genre.
Yossarian said:
I dunno about this second paragraph though; my dad is a classical guitarist and lifelong 'classical' music listener (although according to him the term is inaccurate, as strictly speaking classical means just a specific period rather than orchestral music in general) and he is from quite a working class background, wears sandals, has long hair and earned about 7000 pounds a year when he was in London before. Mind you, even he admits that there is a certain aspect of classical music concerts which he himself dislikes, of middle/upper class types who attend them just to be 'seen there', and dno't really listen to the music.
The main issue I take with my dad about classical music is this assumption that it's the only musical form with genuine musical validity. I mean I like to listen to it and all, and I can see that it's complex etc, but to me, there is plenty of rock stuff, like Sonic Youth, which is very complex, yet he just sees that as noise...
Dubversion said:
Yes but only you, me and 6 other wise souls voted for acid jazz/funk so it was worth doing again.
Still, still not many nominations for it.
I think people need to be reminded of the sheer horror of this genre.
bluestreak said:
TLC - No Scrubs? Missy? Outkast? Aaliyah - Try Again? Beyonce - Crazy In Love?
you sure?
exleper said:
i wouldn't say so. Some of the finest pop of the last decade has fallen under the banner of 'R&B'. Most of it is shit, but then most of most genres is shit. In fact, most music is shit.
R&B.
Dubversion said:
Agreed, that stuff really isn't that bad. No Scrubs in particular is a very good pop tune IMO, and Outkast speak for themselves.
sleaterkinney
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Power ballads for me, Phil Collins, Tina Turner. I wouldn't call trance wanky, it's just annoying.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
AOR or R&B for me
ffs
ffs
John Quays
the reverend relapse
Traditional or power heavy metal with clean vocals: as a fan of death, black & doom (and however of blues, indie and jazz too) etc I cannot be having Iron Maiden, Rhapsody of Fire, Dragonforce, Wolf, Angra, Hammerfall and all that.
RnB sucks too, no doubt, that and soul.
RnB sucks too, no doubt, that and soul.
John Quays said:
you're an idiot
