Music genre you don't care for

[dean_martin]

My current approach to music is - a good song is a good song no matter the genre. The problem is I don't expose myself to current top 40 pop/hip hop so I could be wrong.

Smokey - a couple of jazz recommendations for you: Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue and the Charlie Brown Christmas album. Both are accessible and enjoyable, imo.

[Jim Clark]

I've become pretty indiecentric over the years. Most of the genres I don't care for have some exceptions. I assume there's nothing unique about that.

Don't care for country but Johnny Cash is the man.
Don't care for Jazz but Miles Davis KOB and Dave Brubecks Take Five stand out.
Don't care for R&B but Seal is a guy that I used to make an exception for.
Don't care for Blues but RL Burnside made a couple of amazing albums.

I had an actual discussion recently where this gal couldn't believe I didn't like Taylor Swift. Since she hadn't heard of anybody I said I do like her retort was that Taylor Swift has sold more albums than all the bands I mentioned combined, which is probably accurate. I told her that McDonalds sells more hamburgers than anyone else but that I wasn't under the delusion that it was because it was the best hamburger out there. I'm sure she thinks I'm a complete prick.

jc

[Swish]

I had an actual discussion recently where this gal couldn't believe I didn't like Taylor Swift. Since she hadn't heard of anybody I said I do like her retort was that Taylor Swift has sold more albums than all the bands I mentioned combined, which is probably accurate. I told her that McDonalds sells more hamburgers than anyone else but that I wasn't under the delusion that it was because it was the best hamburger out there. I'm sure she thinks I'm a complete prick.

jc

I firmly believe that if too many people like something, it really can't be all that good. There are exceptions, of course, but I defer to the McDonald's hamburger analogy quite often.

[bobsticks]

I firmly believe that if too many people like something, it really can't be all that good. There are exceptions, of course, but I defer to the McDonald's hamburger analogy quite often.

Meh, I try to ficus on the exceptions. I put together a lil' July compy specifically for driving around. Most of the artists would be considered fairly mainstream and, I can assure you, it hit the mark...

Cake-"Long Skirt, Short Jacket"
Beck- "Loser"
Cage The Elephant- "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked"
The Heavies- "Short Change Hero"
Beastie Boys- "Brass Monkey"
Gorillaz- "Clint Eastwood"
The Black Keys- "Gold On The Ceing"
AWOLnation- "Not Your Fault"
Fall Out Boy- "Sugar, We're Going Down"
Bush- "Glycerine"
Calexico- "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
Orgy- "Blue Monday"
Rammstein- "Ich Will"
Bjork- "Army of Me"
Weezer- "Hash Pipe"
Ofra Haza- "Im Nin'Alu"
Five For Fighting- "The Riddle"

How ya like them apples?

[Feanor]

Meh, I try to ficus on the exceptions. I put together a lil' July compy specifically for driving around. Most of the artists would be considered fairly mainstream and, I can assure you, it hit the mark...

Cake-"Long Skirt, Short Jacket"
Beck- "Loser"
Cage The Elephant- "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked"
The Heavies- "Short Change Hero"
Beastie Boys- "Brass Monkey"
Gorillaz- "Clint Eastwood"
The Black Keys- "Gold On The Ceing"
AWOLnation- "Not Your Fault"
Fall Out Boy- "Sugar, We're Going Down"
Bush- "Glycerine"
Calexico- "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
Orgy- "Blue Monday"
Rammstein- "Ich Will"
Bjork- "Army of Me"
Weezer- "Hash Pipe"
Ofra Haza- "Im Nin'Alu"
Five For Fighting- "The Riddle"

How ya like them apples?

I don't believe I heard any of them.

[JoeE SP9]

I've heard most of them and wish I hadn't.

I'm sure some of things I like are not liked by everyone.

[bobsticks]

Y'all are cantankerous codgers..:-)

[Ex Lion Tamer]

Calexico- "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

How ya like them apples?

I just gotta ask; how does this sound, and where can I find it?

[bobsticks]

I just gotta ask; how does this sound, and where can I find it?

Sorry for the lag time Tamer, I missed this post...and worse yet, I don't remember which promotional disc this is off of...I'll check when I get home.

Here's a sample though:

[MasterCylinder]

I firmly believe that if too many people like something, it really can't be all that good. There are exceptions, of course, but I defer to the McDonald's hamburger analogy quite often.

Four billion houseflies consume dogshyte every day..................

[Hyfi]

Charlie Brown Christmas album.

That is Smooth Jazz, not straight up Jazz and I did forget to mention I have a whole lot of GRP disks.