I'm not a fan of most country music.

I do like Tim McGraw and the Dixie Chicks. Faith Hill and Shania Twain are great, but they're more pop than country (or at least they are now), though.

Never thought I would long for the days of those awful hairbands, but pretty much all music today is even worse. Rap isn't music. Hip hop sucks. I had country forced down my throat so much as a youngster that it lacks appeal , except for the good songs that are not speaking to hicksville , USA, and the rock doesn't roll anymore in rock music. As a music fan who has dedicated his life to it, it couldn't have turn out worse for me.

My least favorite genre is country, but country covers the alt-country that includes Ryan Adams and Wilco.

Pretty much, though, in every genre, there's some talented band that makes good music. You've just got to find it

I dont really dislike country. I listened to it alot as a youngster and i like some country even today;

funninly my dad played with a big scottish folk band [as well as some quite famousish bands] for decades and im - not a fan of scottish folk at all. Exposure at youth clearly dosent always mean it sticks with you.

But now we're comparing apples to....music. :wink:

I'm not even a fan of death metal or black metal either I haven't heard much emo so my judgement upon should never be considered final but from what I've heard it's not my cup of tea.

w00t to hair metal!

I don't like polka music either.

BTW...Kelly what's her name sounds like she can flat out rock when she wants to.

I loathe rap.....everything else can be ok depending on the song and the artist. I have to like country because my brother is a musician living in Nashville.

Yes.

I never say I hate any type of music because then I'll hear a song in that type that I actually like.

However, I can say that there are very few songs I like that are rap or heavy metal. Oh, and muzak (elevator music) -- does that count?

What on earth is that?

You've never heard elevator music!?!?!?!?!?

Either not or I don't know what you mean by that.

Elevator music is music that is played in an elevator. It's usually popular songs, like the Beatles, for instance, but it's performed instrumentally. (no singing, just instruments playing the tune) It's usually done with a piano playing the melody or a string section. A very quiet and relaxing vibe to it.

Except for the occasional catchy tune (I Hope You Dance, Live Like You Were Dying), I find country to be quite dookie.

I'm also not a fan of the whole emo thing. Like makeshift said, maybe I haven't heard enough of it, but I think crap like Dashboard Confessional and New Found Glory (seriously, why do these guys have careers?) have already ruined it for me.

I have never heard of EMO, can someone tell me what it is, and what kind of singers/band do that kind of music, thanks.

Oh, man. This is always a tough question....

Emo is, essentially, a catch all phrase used when describing punk that has emotional lyrics as opposed to political ones. At least, that's what it used to mean. Now, it's more about an image and whatnot instead of actual music.

The best "emo" (in my book, atleast) was happening in the mid-late 90's. The new stuff you hear on the radio like Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional... that's nu-emo. Some of it is okay, but it's mostly pretty terrible. It's actually a good starting point, though, if you're just starting to get into it. But, yeah, the best time for emo was in the mid-late 90's. Most of it was DIY (do it yourself), and almost all of it sounded like actual punk. A lot of emo band's in that time frame would incorporate black metal into their sound, too - repetitive, highly emotional guitar riffs. Extremely high pitched vocals/screaming was a trademark of that sound, too. That's what started the term "screamo". Screamo is now used to describe stuff like The Used, which is a total joke, but I digress.

Most of my favorite emo bands released all of their stuff on long out of print vinyl, so it's pretty hard to find unless you're willing to spend a couple of hundred bucks on a record that has about four songs on it. I have most of the essential stuff ripped onto my computer, so i'll upload some stuff soon so you guys can hear some real emo, although it's probably a bit rough around the edges for most of you (i'm not trying to be rude, but it's pretty extreme music. It's nothing like the stuff being called emo now). Almost all of those bands have long since broken up, though, and now we're left with some really bad stuff....

Also, just wanted to add that the best modern day emo is being made in Japan. Incredible stuff. Very heavily influenced by the 90's emo in America. I'll post it, too.

Hmm... Punk is defined as something very broad these days ive noticed. I mean ive heard people arguing that GreenDay are punk; to which i silently giggle. But seriously; i think the actual punk genre has been lost in people trying to define bands as part of the genre when they really arent.

hahaha nu-emo.

makeshift does a better job describing the underground. Popular Emo or "Mall Emo" is what people are most familiar with. It is an offshoot of early 1990s alterna-rock... mixed with a mod asthetic. People really associate it with rocky punk with whiney twingy lyrics (Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer/Sunny Day Real Estate are probably really early popular examples). It also includes some of the more folky artists too. Now it's kind of a mix of Southern California nu-surf culture (like the O.C.) and techy computer nerd-goth. Actually, now the term really means nothing. It means as much as the term "alternative" meant in 1993.

Almost every genre right now is filled to the brim with "musicians" and "vocalists" (dare I use the word "artists"?) that are pillaging everything left in the industry. The real star now is the producers.

In general, if I would have to boil it down... Hip Hop has never had anything to offer me, and is a completely alien thing to me. I think musicians/artists/whatever should go on tour, show up at gigs and rock out without ego. Blues, rock, jazz... all the great vocalists worked their asses off. Sure, today's Hip Hop stars might do a courtesy tour every few years, but they are not pounding the pavement like most musicians are. And while I'm not afraid of musicians getting rich, I'm upset that Hip Hop and it's culture is more about style and appearance now than it is about music.

In general a lot of genres are like that now. A lady at my store came in and was seeing a nu-country musician the other night, and she was talking to our receptionist. She said "Boy, he's good looking! Oh and I like his songs too". That pretty much sums up what music is about to most people these days.

C.C. DeVille was a mediocre/good guitarist who could play circles around almost every "new" musician in the rock industry these days.

And he was hopped up on coke the entire time.

And had hookers.

God i fucking miss the late 1980s/early 1990s :razz:

OMG...that's so true, and he seriously wasn't anything special at all as a guitarist.

Hmm, thank you.

We don't have music in elevators over here.