Music you are prejudiced against

sufi

lala
for me i have a reactionary prejudice against indie and possibly goth, i probably have some other deep-seated ones but i struggle to put my finger on them exactly...,
but there are whole areas of music i wouldnt really contemplate enjoying,
like the kids who took against hiphop to the the bitter end, why?
 

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
Any dance music trying conspicuously to incorporate "real", "live" muscianship. But I suppose that's a fairly standard prejudice.
 

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
Also, 70s good-time boogie-rock.
I'm sure it can't be all bad. But I'm also sure that I'm not going to lift a finger towards finding out. :p
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Pretty much anything that sounds vaguely Latin. I'm just allergic to it. Brings me out in spots.
 

zhao

there are no accidents
when i was younger, 20s and teens, i used to have a lot of prejudices, against jazz music, against country music, against hiphop music, against latin music, against african music, etc, etc.

at least 3 major reasons for these:

1. i thought bad things about cultural expressions that were alien to me because the mode of being that they promoted made me feel uncomfortable, and i simply was afraid of things that i did not understand. i was an insecure and ignorant child.

2. i was generally against a lot of "happy" sounding music because i was an angry young man.

but i am lucky to have lost all of these ridiculous, restricting, silly, SILLY prejudices over the years... and realize that it all really is connected...

Any dance music trying conspicuously to incorporate "real", "live" muscianship. But I suppose that's a fairly standard prejudice.

that's because you haven't seen Ngoma Soundsystem yet :)

i dont know why but i have a fantasy of taking people with music prejudices hostage, and playing records for them in the areas which they are prejudiced against, and converting them in a matter of an hour.
 

Aww Nein

Wild Palms
i used to be prejudiced against UK urband music, epecially garage, when i was 15 or so as a teenage metal fan growing up in croydon, mainly because of the tribal thing when your that age of liking a subculture and being against others, and also because all the people you met who were into garage were the ones that tried to mug you in town.

however, moving out of the suburbs to london and consuming more and more music as ive got older ive now through grime and dubstep got into garage, to the point where the music i make is pretty much a form of garage.

also until recently pretty prejudiced against "funky house", still not into the tasteful lounge element of it...
 

stelfox

Beast of Burden
Almost all of it these days, especially stuff I never thought I would be against in any way.
 
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gumdrops

Well-known member
not that much anymore. i suppose i still have a prejudice against indie, but thats more a 'symbolic' (?) thing than the music itself.
 

martin

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Death / thrash metal

Dubstep with flutes

'Intelligent' / Blue Note-sampling drum and bass

Bands who play guitar riffs in that chugging Metallica style

Any band with a member sporting a goatee (apart from the Magic Band)

R&B, most things with Autotune...
 

gumdrops

Well-known member
@alex. yeah maybe thats it. i just hate the rockist (tho i hate that whole theory too while im at it, mainly cos half the people banging on about it are all rock fans just trying to prove theyre not rockist when they prob still are) attitude/environment in general. but i do like rock/indie music.
 

alex

Do not read this.
yea see, some of the commercial stuff my g/f listens to isnt bad atall, then i see the cover of the cd & see the artist's in their skinny jeans, looking fresh out of shoreditch and sigh..sigh, sigh, sigh.
 

BareBones

wheezy
music that can be described as "filthy"

"filthy" electro.

all that justice / simian mobile disco shit

anything that is or could potentially be featured in the nme
 
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massrock

Well-known member
I know this thread is inevitably flame bait but...

The thing about 'indie' is that first of all of course it was the charts of independent record sales so it covered all sorts of things and did represent some kind of alternative to boring big music biz.

But also indie rock in the 80s and early 90s was grass roots music. It was a continuation punk and folk, people making music for themselves (and if anyone else liked it that was just a bonus haha).

I was into hip-hop and electronic music and funk and rock and psychedelia and industrial stuff as a youngster but I thought it was great that you could go and see groups any (usually every) night of the week for a few quid. Even if they were no good they were right there, it was immediate.

I wouldn't defend what 'indie' has become of course, that's a horrendous thing on the whole. People often slagged indie bands for having a lack of ambition, well look what happened!
 
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