Music we hate

Jazz. Sets my teeth on edge. And rap. Otherwise I like most things. Love to hear a blues sax well played.

I also like Lovely Day [which others dislike.] Oh dear.
I don't like 'musak' [music for lifts] Hate Noddy Holder's Christmas song, but like most others. I quite enjoy a bit of Christmassy music as long as it's not too far from Christmas [Nov and Dec is ok.]Think of the poor staff who have to listen to endless renditions of Rockin' around The Christmas Tree though! Could drive you crazy.

Just checked out Adiemus on YouTube. Am pleased I did - I'd heard it before and loved it but never knew what it was. So now I know! And will search for it on iTunes.

Don't like rap or hip-hop; boy/girlbands; most mainstream pop music; crooners, male or female; musicals (apart from 'Cabaret'). And I'm not that keen on jazz, though admittedly I'm pretty ignorant and haven't really given it a chance.

I'm with Rockgran and love The Stones, Tom Petty, Eagles etc. I like most other music, but really struggle to find anything enjoyable about certain male opera singers and quartets whose voices are so powerful that they aren't tuneful. I don't know if it's because my ear isn't trained to hear the exquisite execution of the performance or they are getting away with terrible singing!

Rap.

Adiemus - I was pregnant when that came out and played it non-stop! DS came out practically singing it and it has always been one of his favourites too.

I DO like Pink Floyd's older stuff, King Crimson (that dates me!), PJ Harvey, Mogwai, Steeleye Span, some Jimi Hendrix, some Levellers, most classical piano music, Early Music (including medieval), traditional and some contemporary folk....and Mozart operas...

Well, that seems to have shut everyone up....

Went to a festival in a park in Brighton last month where they had some samba bands that went on and on in the same rhythm. I had to leave !!!!!

not me! yes, pink Floyd, ac/dc , led zeppelin, Hendrix,munford and sons.... I'm not a classical person.

I don't hate any music but Im not keen on loud modern stuff that the young ones like. I mainly play new age music for relaxation. I love some classical music such as air on a g string (hamlet cigar ad many years ago).
Swan lake is lovely too. I like all sorts of pop and I don't mind whats played in shops I cant stand carols too early as I get bored with them especially ones that are made to sound like pop music. Real carols the week before xmas is lovely.
My all time fave is Queen, I loved Freddie so much.

I love classical music best of all. But really I like anything except rap. Which is just annoying. It rhymes with yap which is fitting as it grates in the same way that a yappy dog does.

matson - yay for Led Zeppelin! 'Black Dog' is one of my favourite albums.

Hate Christmas musak and I must be the only one NOT to like Freddie Mercury or Queen!

Is it me but does Katy Melhua always seem to sing out of tune?

I can't stand the kind of modern orchestral music that seems to have no melody at all. The inimitable Sir Thomas Beecham once said, when asked if he had ever played any Stockhausen, 'No sir, but I may have trodden in some'. Apologies if I have misquoted him but that was the gist.

Mahler!

Oh Galen. Me too. All the test of the family say I'm an uncultured cloth eared *

Too sickly sweet for me! Give me Bach, Beethoven or Hildegarde de Bergen any day.
Love some Taverner, but not all.

And all those awful schmaltzy operas by Puccini, Rossini and Verdi. It's baroque for me always.

Palestrina is great

And Monteverdi, Guesualdo, Schulz, Vivaldi ...

I would certainly not call Rossini schmaltzy!

Anybody listen to the Elgar on the Proms tonight? I thought it was wonderful.

I've recorded it, Mice. I know I heard one of Elgar's lesser known oratorios in the dim and distant past but don't think it was The Kingdom. I remember thinking it deserved to be as well known as Gerontius.

I don't like Adiemus. I really hate or that "Wherever you are" (the military wives choir one.)
I did like a most of Karl Jenkins The Armed Man though, that has some really lovely music in.

I like the Cole Porter songs. Some Noel Coward and Ivor Novello stuff that is terribly terribly posh and romantic, but evokes that era. Why I don't know with that, it was well before my time or I was in a previous incarnation then.

What was the Elgar tonight?