Recommend me some music, that I'll hate! (Seriously!)

DrJazzTap

Okay, I've lost track of the amount of youtube videos I've watched recently. In one video a chap mentioned that for inspiration and for discovering new ways of thinking, he listens to and plays music he absolutely hates. This intrigued me.

I like to think of myself as pretty open minded, I've listened to and I appreciate a lot of different genres. But I've obviously avoided the music which hasn't pulled me in. And i've moved towards my preffered listening material.

So I like- jazz, anything harmonically interesting, classical music, IDM, early hip hop, fusion, folk. I hate to be thought of as being a music snob. I'm not, I just like what I like.

I'm looking for suggestions as to what to listen to. So genres i really don't like -

Super heavy, death, doom, stoner metal, speed metal, rave music, manufactured pop music, worship music, super scruffy punk music (see my love of prog above),  Modern rap music, indie music (masses of reverb and delay etc)

I am genuinely not out to sling mud or anything like that. The main one for me is punk music. I love the ethos behind it all, but to me I've always thought "can't bloody play" etc etc. Somebody once told me to check out Astor Piazzolla and I was so glad I did. Joy of discovery and all that. So suggestions please

Octahedron

I highly recommend listening to Nile. I do not know what they are but they suck. Basically, anything that my brother "loves". Cannibal Corpse? Just all those dirty, weird, trashy, un-melodic, widdly, blah blah blah screaming like you're vomiting up your own lungs "vocalists" (because they can't be considered "singers" in my book)... 

Go on. Try Nile. I dare you. I remember I used to watch Scuzz as a kid. They had some video on there... I seem to remember the "song" (or, more accurately, noise) was titled along the lines of "Sacrifice Unto Sebek" or something like that. 

Good luck comrade. 

rpr

Heres a selection of some od my tastes that may fit the bill

rpr

 

ICBM

Cascada.

Laughably formulaic Euro-trance-pop - all their songs basically sound the same, to the point of only seeming to have one drum pattern and bassline across three or four albums - but if you just turn off your mind and enjoy the impossibly predictable melodies and stupidly cheesy lyrics, I defy you to hate them completely . The singer is (or perhaps was, now...) quite hot too, which might help.

Best album: probably the first one, Everytime We Touch. Although it might be hard to tell them apart anyway.

(I used to cover the title track in my acoustic duo by the way... it's almost a good song!)

Edit for gratuitous Cascada video.

Warning: may induce epilepsy. Even if you don't have it.

EricTheWeary

Oft top of me 'ead:
Dead Kennedys. They could play and were quite inventive, probably to the degree they shouldn't have been punk at all! There is also no Jamaican music in either of your lists. Maybe start with some British Jamaican music - Handsworth Revolution by Steel Pulse. This is almost a prog reggae album so you might have a way in. Then maybe Marcus Garvey by Burning Spear, appears in a lot of albums before you die type lists. Then Garveys Ghost which is the dub version of that album, a lot of people hate dub so that would be a good challenge for you!

rpr

 

 

EricTheWeary

Excellent. Nothing divides a room like reggae so it seemed an obvious choice!
I think the other thing I'd say is always go see something live, I think you get a much better idea of what a music is trying to achieve than just off the recorded version. Very little live music that I can't get some pleasure out of.

ICBM

EricTheWeary said:

Nothing divides a room like reggae so it seemed an obvious choice!

Really? There are people who hate reggae?? Wow.

Actually my wife doesn't like reggae (no 10CC joke coming up either ), but that's because she grew up in west London in the 70s and early 80s so I think she got over-exposed to it..

EricTheWeary

Actually, if we're looking for marmite modern music some chuggy 12 bar blues, maybe some Walter Trout or Joe Bonamassa. Certainly divides this forum anyway.

robinbowes

ICBM

Neil Young.

Start with Arc .

Or Trans...

beed84

First band to come to the top of my head are Swedish metal band Meshuggah.  Not heard all of their stuff myself, but what I have heard is HEAVY!  Although you might think "what a load of racket",  their songs structures are quite complex incorporating polyrhythms and various styles such as thrash and fusion.

Crank it up and enjoy!

EricTheWeary

Ahh that's Kid Ramos on that FTs clip, I have a great album of Mexican blues he did somewhere. Last I heard he had been seriously ill, hope he's okay, fab blues guitarist.

robinbowes

rpr

 

rpr

 

CHRISB50

Give these a try...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9mLeUMEYZg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBQmV2zZK5o

If you can manage to garner any kind of artistic inspiration from either I salute you.

 

albanov

I used to live with a fellow who liked DJ Hixxy. Jesus wept.

Anyway, enjoy:

Teetonetal

Check out, , Flogging Molly, Mighty, Mighty Bosstones (impression that I get is the biggie), Mad Caddies. Rise Against, NoFX, Good Riddance. Save Ferris and Less than Jake.

That should be a good cross section of the more modern end of punk & ska

Deadman

Minutemen.