Turn that s*!& off!

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QUOTE (brianmole @ Jan 4 2005, 12:45 PM)

I hate 'both types of music' (quote from Blues Brothers) - Contry AND Western!!!  It is the music from the devil!!

That was a great quote from a GREAT film http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/thumbup.gif

 

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Classical music gets on my t1ts, too pretentious... Jazz is wonderful Trance has had its day, but I like it House is tops R&B is misunderstood, but can be really good Hip-hop is also misunderstood and can be excellent Rap - what do you class as rap?  Sugarhill Gang?  funny how many people don't know how to classify music and write off a whole genre on the basis of a few cr@p tunes - bit like me & C&W D&B can be really boring, but some D&B uses wicked latin riffs - excellent!  It is also evolving and has a huge number of followers, so worth exploring Heavy Metal - there are some great rock tunes around

There is some fantastic jazz around and there are so many offshoots of Jazz: Fusion, Latin, Trad, Acid-jazz http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/toot.gif

I don't mind Classical at all, some of it is very relaxing at the right moment.

Trance bores me to death, it's just SOOOOOOO monotonous http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/sleep1.gif

House is often good, but Funky House is wicked http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/thumbup.gif

Very much agree with your statement that R&B is misunderstood. I reckon that most of the 'R&B' tracks that people hate/dislike are probably not R&B at all and most of them are probably Pop (Christina, Britney, J-Lo) or Rap (Ja Rule, Dizzy Rascal, Jay-Z).

I'm puzzled by the frequent distinction between Rap & Hip-Hop and would love to know how people define Rap & then define Hip-Hop http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/533.gif

I dislike most gangsta rap but love stuff like A Tribe Called Quest, Outkast, Guru, Digital Underground.

To me there is a clear distinction between Rock & Heavy Metal. Rock usually has understandable lyrics and talented musicians such as Guns N Roses & Led Zeppelin but Heavy Metal is just screaming, noise, loads of feedback, distortion and completely unintelligable lyrics http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/wacko.gif

Some D&B is fantastic, some is absolutely dire.

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I heard a song once that I liked....can't remember too much about it though............. http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

 

 

Remember now...it had the lyrics about saving all your kisses for someone. http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

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[Miler 0]

QUOTE (brianmole)

Classical music gets on my t1ts, too pretentious... Jazz is wonderful Trance has had its day, but I like it House is tops R&B is misunderstood, but can be really good Hip-hop is also misunderstood and can be excellent Rap - what do you class as rap?  Sugarhill Gang?  funny how many people don't know how to classify music and write off a whole genre on the basis of a few cr@p tunes - bit like me & C&W D&B can be really boring, but some D&B uses wicked latin riffs - excellent!  It is also evolving and has a huge number of followers, so worth exploring Heavy Metal - there are some great rock tunes around

 

On all genres, here is my opinion

 

Jazz - generally good, can become a touch repetetive

Trance - to much like humming underwater/wasp buzzing in your face. People dance to it like there is a wasp in front of their face as well.

House - a cross between humming underwater and terrible "vocals" if at all existent.

R&B - older stuff is good (Marvin Gaye etc), some of the newer stuff is good as well - very dancey and catchy. A lot of it is bland in my opinion though

Hip Hop - some songs are catchy, an in betweeny genre of R&B and Rap though

Rap - Eminem and a lot of newer Hip hop. It's pretty empty imo. Talks of living in the "ghetto" and so on and encourages violence. Admittedly not all do but the vast majority I hear is.

D&B - again very repetetive, but I agree, the latin stuff can be rather good

Heavy metal - there are great rock tunes about but, theres rock and there's heavy metal. I dont particularly know much about the Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin and the like, but from what I gather, they actually made music as opposed to this new-found craze of screaming/wailing/screeching down a microphone to a background of seemingly unco-ordinated instruments quickly followed by the showmanship of being sick on stage purposely and hitting each other. It seems the followers of this music are only interested in causing grief, damage and harm to other people and/or their belongings. I vehemently oppose people of this calibre as I said before as not only is the music undeniably bad (personal opinion http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif ) but the what "sub-culture" which it stands for is twice as bad.

 

Anyway, that's a younger person's view of music (although, I consider myself to be different from todays youth in terms of taste in (current) music anyway!). http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif I hope I haven't offended anyone - particularly in the last section!

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I play most things at discos, as long as its "alright on the night" using your noodle, you can work out what to play and when not to play...

 

I personally like Heavy metal, but not thrash - but i will listen to anything - including country music !!! Dolly parton - jolene for example...

 

I now also carry ballroom as i have been asked for it a number of time now !!! http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/fear.gif

 

If they want to dance to it, then i play it... http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif

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Pick a genre you don't like, or know nothing about and work out a short set - you can bet that if you had spend a few evenings at home going through some Rap, C&W, Jazz, Reggae, Metal, Trance etc etc then you'll find some tracks you actually think are OK, and trusting your own taste and DJ experience would soon have a list of tunes that would work ...think they should be posted as well - would be really interesting to see what a Rap expert thinks of a non Rap fans playlist etc....

So to start with, I know nothing about Trance, never played any, haven't a clue - so I'll beg steal or borrow some CD's, pick out tracks I like or think would work and post say 5 or 6 of them for folk to comment on.....

 

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I don't like country, funny that I grew up listening to country 2....

 

But if i hav enought drinks in me, I will dance to anything... http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/thumbup.gif

[spirito 0]

Its gotta be heavy metal at the top of my list. If a client wants it why didnt they book a band?

 

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i hate stuff like new monkey, the mixin may be good, well sort of, but its the dude yelling down the mic about nowt is what really does my head in. http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/wallbash.gif this is mostly listened by "chavs" ! ! !

 

They just dont know what proper music is

 

Dave

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[Ian Stewart 0]

Trad Jazz

[shifty 0]

Anything by BOY Bands http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/wallbash.gif

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QUOTE (speedy @ Jan 3 2005, 06:50 PM)

Rap is crap Full stop end of story!

couldn’t agree more with you Speedy, Drum & Bass is just as bad. http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/pooh.gif

We were doing a regular slot in a pub for a while & one of the bar staff kept asking for Drum & Bass, I had a look on the web & managed to download the top ten D&B at that time. Just to hear what it was all about you know what I mean http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/whistling.gif

(they all sounded the same, all with the same 10second loop) http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/scared.gif

so they were all deleted & our money stayed in our pockets (We wouldn’t give this room in the van if we were given them for free) http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/363.gif http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/pooh.gif

 

[otronics 0]

None of the above! I can cope with them all! :-))

[blackmagic 0]

I dont like heavy metal, rap or rnb. dont know why but i'll listen to anything else!!

[HNW Discos 0]

i voted heavy metal. wot junck. i hate it all it is is bang crash http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/pooh.gif any way classical is just the same. i sort of like some of the old stuff but i tend to listen to everything apart from the above mentioned.

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I voted for Country & Western, simpley just http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/pooh.gif

 

And the only reason everyone hates Rap is becuase they are brain washed into listening to all the http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/pooh.gif such as Eminem, 50 Cent, Ja Fool, Fat Joe, and they rest of them fools

 

If you actualy listened to real Rap music they most of you would probley like it becuase they dont talk about sex, drugs, guns and violence. They talk about real issues happening around the world that effect people and cultures.

 

Also "Rap is something you do, Hip-Hop is something you live" a quote from KRS-One, one of the greats of Rap. Rap is a genre, Hip-Hop is a life style and most people get them mixed up http://www.lyrictricity.info/shogun/smiles/wave.gif

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I dont like anything being played that is distorted, Over driven, Clipped, Oh and feed back.

 

I would not like to say that I dislike anything in particular. I like to listen to all types of music. There are tracks of all genures that I dont like.

 

So you could say I dont like any type of music http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif

 

 

Yes I agree it so http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/9.gif I should delete it.

 

Jimbo

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Skillz

And the only reason everyone hates Rap is becuase they are brain washed into listening to all the such as Eminem, 50 Cent, Ja Fool, Fat Joe, and they rest of them fools

 

 

 

Whoa there , hang on a bit, who says everyone hates rap ? I have been djing since the mid seventies and have played loads of rap from grandmaster flash to krs 1 and i still do. I know that there are loads of djs on here who play rap too , eminem and dre has brought rap on leaps and bounds after the stagnating gangsta stuff from the 90s. Jay z is huge and snoop sells tons of records , I really like Gunshot. Krs1 s lyrics are a bit more suited to american problems than brit ones , but hey do us a favour and dont get annoyed just because some people dont like the same music as you ! http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/cool.gif

 

[Skillz 0]

It wasnt that i was getting annoyed it was that nearly everyone was refering to rap with Eminem which i was just trying to say that there is more to Rap than these few artists, sorry if it came out wrong http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Kingy 0]

I count the Sugarhill Gangs "Rappers Delight" as one of my fave tracks ever, despite not generally liking the current Rap culture.

[mikeee 0]

Ladies and Gentlemen, please remember all music is good, it's just personal taste that varies.

 

And who said the rap is spelt with a capital C. (lol)

[cookiecat 0]

Jazz is the worst,my childhood was ruined by cleo lain and her blo http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/censored2.gif dy boop boop boops.

[stevie 0]

Me thinks the type of rap you all mean is the gangsta type?

If you no what i mean?you no the sort

K:cense:l your dad f:cense: your mum drugs rule etc all played by kids in there 1st car as loud as they can http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/ranting.gif

Ohh soudin like victor meldrew i better stop http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/ranting.gif

[juski 0]

'Dance' cover versions & remixes of 80s songs make my skin crawl . Looped, filtered and/or badly re-sung... give it a rest & do something new.

 

RnB.....

Yeah. Yeah. Uhuh. Yeah. One time. Uhuh. Bling. Wassup?

 

Where the heck does the term 'R&B' come from anyway? I thought Eric Clapton was once regarded as a 'ryhthm & blues man'... so er... how did 'RnB' replace real music?

 

Oh - and let's not forget... anything featuring that Carzy Froggie http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/188.gif

 

Infact - anything which is likely to be on constant rotation on commercial radio. I hear it at work... so by the time it comes out I'm already sick to death of hearing it.

 

But having said that I can put my prejudices aside for a while if I know it's going to work in the context of a disco.

 

Another good thread idea might be...

 

Number one singles you didn't buy and nobody ever cared http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif

[damo1023 0]

the only thing i dont really like is the country and western.

even as a young one on here i dont mind classical as its what we used to use at a&r cambridge to test the expensive audio systems.

when you hear the full picture it really is quite something.

again with the d&b how many of you have been out to a proper nite and experienced it properly rather than the top 10's which are so quickly outdated and quite often not very good anyway.

some of the nites i have been to have had a far better atmosphere than your local cheesy club.

anyway just my 2 pennys worth and not looking to put anyones nose outta joint with it

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QUOTE (Miler @ Jan 4 2005, 06:47 PM)

Heavy metal - there are great rock tunes about but, theres rock and there's heavy metal. I dont particularly know much about the Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin and the like, but from what I gather, they actually made music as opposed to this new-found craze of screaming/wailing/screeching down a microphone to a background of seemingly unco-ordinated instruments quickly followed by the showmanship of being sick on stage purposely and hitting each other. It seems the followers of this music are only interested in causing grief, damage and harm to other people and/or their belongings. I vehemently oppose people of this calibre as I said before as not only is the music undeniably bad (personal opinion http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif ) but the what "sub-culture" which it stands for is twice as bad.

This sounds like an ignorant & uninformed view based entirely on something read in a tabloid Sunday paper. For starters I think it would come as a shock to John Lydon to find out that he used to sing in a Heavy Metal band. From your description I would say you're describing Slipknot, who are the exception rather than the rule & anyway they only do what they do on stage to cause controversy & therefore gain publicity (any publicity is good publicity remember). Small minded tabloid journalists can't resist & take the bait.

 

I read a while back (in Q if memory serves, so they at least can't be accused of being biased, covering virtually all types of music like they do) that Rock/Metal gigs had some of the least amounts of trouble/violence at gigs as opposed to Rap & R&B which were both among the highest.

 

Extreme Metal will always sound like a racket to people who don't like it (& for that matter most people who like other sub genres of HM), but then again can't this be said of other genres such as Trad Jazz & Drum & Bass or Jungle which all sound very much like a series of random noises to me.

 

Seems like you're tarring all Rock/Metal with the same brush so to speak. For example I could say all Rap/R&B/Hip Hop is mysogonistic, biggoted. violent & druggy judging by some of the lyrics I've heard, but I know this not to be true. It's always the most controversial that will get the attention often eclipsing the most talented as a result.