Musical Pet Peeves

[Zook]

Well I made an edit of CE where I removed the circus bits, but even with the extra two minutes, I don't think the focus is lost, but hey I love instrumental sections.


I wish I liked Outcry more though.

[Ħ]

Music written for a genre bugs me. Like a country song that tries to throw all the elements of the country genre together at once just for the sake of it.

[Priest of Syrinx]

Are there some things you keep hearing in music that just annoy or bother you? Post them here!
I'll start things off.

.Bands where 95% of the vocals are harmonies. I'm looking at you, Yes.
.Gospel-style female vocals with no actual words, I.E. Great Gig In The Sky and Through Her Eyes.

What did music ever do to you, that you should hate it so?

[pkj]

Over-using pinch harmonics.  I've been trying to acquire an appreciation for Lamb of God lately, and there's an awful lot of them.  I don't get it -- my guess is that they appear with such frequency in metalcore-type stuff because Dimebag Darrell did it constantly, and so now it's just been inherited as a convention of the style. 

[Buddyhunter1]

Are there some things you keep hearing in music that just annoy or bother you? Post them here!
I'll start things off.

.Bands where 95% of the vocals are harmonies. I'm looking at you, Yes.
.Gospel-style female vocals with no actual words, I.E. Great Gig In The Sky and Through Her Eyes.

What did music ever do to you, that you should hate it so?

It molested my entire family with a cactus covered in sandpaper while I watched before it dismembered them all with a toothpick and anally raped me with their limbs, causing me to have a few personal opinions about certain musical styles and elements that I just don't like all that much for whatever reason.

[Ravenheart]

That's the precursor to the majority of threads in this subforum.

[Priest of Syrinx]

Are there some things you keep hearing in music that just annoy or bother you? Post them here!
I'll start things off.

.Bands where 95% of the vocals are harmonies. I'm looking at you, Yes.
.Gospel-style female vocals with no actual words, I.E. Great Gig In The Sky and Through Her Eyes.

What did music ever do to you, that you should hate it so?

It molested my entire family with a cactus covered in sandpaper while I watched before it dismembered them all with a toothpick and anally raped me with their limbs, causing me to have a few personal opinions about certain musical styles and elements that I just don't like all that much for whatever reason.

Aww, crap, dude, I'm so sorry... 

Vocal harmonies & Gospel-style female vocals with no actual words, DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

[Buddyhunter1]

They've been dead for over a decade, actually.
*ba-dum tish*

[Pols Voice]

Growls. *dodges tomatoes*

[carl320]

I'm not sure how to explain this, so here goes:

It seems like whenever I hear a piano in a rock song, it's always long, flowing, ballady type music.  For example (even though I like the song), The Spirit Carries On.  Nothing against pianists in rock bands, but that kinda bothers me.

[MasterShakezula]

I'm not sure how to explain this, so here goes:

It seems like whenever I hear a piano in a rock song, it's always long, flowing, ballady type music.  For example (even though I like the song), The Spirit Carries On.  Nothing against pianists in rock bands, but that kinda bothers me.

You're listening to the wrong bands.

[Implode]

The only time that the vi IV I V really bothers me is when it's in the intro to a song and one instrument is just arppegiating though the chords simply (like 5-3-1-3-5-3-1-3 or something).

[Elite]

Having two guitarists in a band that don't complement each other at all, i.e. both guitarists play the exact same thing. Annoys me to no end.

Same thing with a bass player only playing root notes, come on be a little creative!

Overly technical wankery that doesn't (seem to) go anywhere.

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I know the first two don't apply to many 'professional' bands, but even if it's your local band playing at the pub it still does annoy me.

[nicmos]

Having two guitarists in a band that don't complement each other at all, i.e. both guitarists play the exact same thing. Annoys me to no end.

Yeah I know what you mean.  Like those 4 guys who play exactly the same notes on Tom Sawyer? Yeah, get a little more creative I say 

[Buddyhunter1]

Here's a couple more:

.Annoying snare drum. Some drummer spamming a bad-sounding snare is just painful to listen to.
.The bassist's role in a lot of metal bands. Don't get me wrong, there's tons of great metal bassists, but in a lot of bands they just seem there for no real reason. Mixed too low, does nothing but repeat the guitar line, etc... What's worse is when the guitar sounds just as low as the bass. What's the point of even having one then?
That said, if the bass has a good tone and is mixed well, it works great.