Musical Pet Peeves

Yes, that too.

The Girl/World rhyme is annoying because the context of it is usually really cheesy (Just a small town girl/ Living in her lonely world!). Fire/Desire is also overused but I'm more forgiving of that rhyme because I like the imagery it invokes and many songs I like use that rhyme.

Wow, I never would've thought I hear someone complain about the LACK of bagpipes in any situation.

I love the band Muse, but Matt Bellamy's very audible breathing in some songs can get annoying. I listening to the song "New Born" like 20 times before I noticed the obvious breaths before each line, and now I can't listen to the song in the same way!

I actually like the bagpipes. My mom's from Scotland, and I've been over there a few times, so I got to hear them. They're a cool instrument, and they'd complement rock music perfectly. For example, 99 Red Balloons on bagpipes. Fucking flamethrowing bagpipes. How many instruments can be played while they're shooting flames? How fucking rock is that?

This is cool, too. This is pretty much the kind of thing I want to see more of. Bagpipes added to rock music. Most of what I've been finding on You Tube seems to be instrumental.

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Gaaaah why do Xmas songs feel the need to use a high pitched annoying voice?!

Twentington: You described your perception of all metal as sounding like:

"ARRRARARAHRAHRARHARAHRARHARAHRRRRRARHGH FUCKETY FUCK FUCK FUCKING FUCK FUCK OF FUCKINGNESS"

Try this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, *sigh* this, this, or this.
If none of these convert you, then your ears are beyond redemption.

I'LL ADD MORE IF I CAN BE BOTHERED

edited 4th Dec '13 3:13:56 AM by CardsOfWar

"I thought Djent was just a band" -Physical Stamina

Sorry, but I don't think he's a person you could convert: he once said Nightwish were too aggressive.

But please do post more (elsewhere).

Sudden sound drops in the middle of a song. Just the absolute worst.

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Also, this isn't the best way to put this, but loud and repetitive noises in music. I don't know how to better express it, but that plus my previous pet peeves makes me rather averse to what I've listened to of House music.

Deep into that darkness, peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

What kind of House music have you listened to?

Here's a beautiful sounding example of House music, btw.

edited 5th Dec '13 2:44:15 PM by Quag15

Most of the stuff listed here doesn't bother me, but excessive melisma....grraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! The phrase "Amazing Grace" does not have 20 syllables and should not be sung as though it did!

Somehow you know that the time is right.

I know I've said it before but excessive melisma is like the vocal equivalent of wanky guitar soloing.

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Sampling the part of a song where the Title Drop happens and then naming your song something completely different sorta bothers me. It's like, they're singing the title of their song... but it's not the title of your song. It's kinda weird, if you ask me.

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#56: I just don't get that "singing" style at all. More like extremely pissed-off screaming.

That's the kind of tone I would use when chewing out a guy who set my house on fire, not the kind of tone I would use when saying that I wish I had an angel.

edited 6th Dec '13 5:22:21 PM by Twentington

I'm just wondering, out of all the metal songs out there, why is it that have you heard Nightwish's "Wish I Had an Angel" and seem to fixate on that song as a representation of the genre as a whole? I've listen to a fair amount of metal and I hadn't heard that song before you brought it up in the other thread a while back.

It was the one that like, four different people have told me is "good metal", easy to get into, not too harsh, etc. etc.

And I've tried other metal too. I can't recall any titles offhand, but even the "softer" stuff just sounds so… pissed-off and grating and unbearable to me. Where's the joy in listening to it?!

edited 6th Dec '13 6:09:09 PM by Twentington

Some people find joy in the things others prefer to hide from. There's a lot of electronic, industrial, prog, and even classical music that sounds morbid as hell, sometimes not even requiring vocals.

edited 6th Dec '13 9:56:14 PM by StillbirthMachine

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It's not like people who listen to metal listen to it to make themselves feel unhappy.

There is plenty to it beyond the vocal style as well, but if you are completely put off by the vocals of even not 'growly' metal, then you can't really try to find enjoyment in it. Each to his own I guess.

EDIT: What's a Melisma?

edited 6th Dec '13 9:53:27 PM by CardsOfWar

"I thought Djent was just a band" -Physical Stamina

The complete opposite, singing with almost a bored expressionlessness to it like every pop rock act during the early 2000s did, annoys me more than overly melismatic vocals.

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I has a dislike for both, but melismatic specifically.

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Comedy songs that sound like comedy songs. For example, this one. As soon as it starts, you can tell it's a comedy song. It couldn't be anything else. No effort was put into making it a song that could stand on its own merits apart from the lyrics. All they did was come up with a joke and then strummed their guitars. Compare that to Tribute. That song works as a song. Change the lyrics, and it's still a reasonably well-crafted song.

If you're going to be a musical comedy group, then make sure to put as much focus on the "musical" part as the "comedy" part. Otherwise, just do normal comedy, without the music.

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Thank you. This is something that has become more and more prevalent in pop and R&B vocals in the last decade, and it drives me crazy. How hard is it to tilt your head back from the mic or step back a little bit if you need to inhale and don't have to immediately jump into the next lyric?! This has actually ruined Stone Sour's...is it "Together" or "Say You'll Haunt Me"? Anyway, Taylor's inhales before every line are really noticeable on the radio and it just takes me right out of the song.

edited 16th Dec '13 10:46:04 AM by Willbyr

**I move away from the mic to breathe in (Couldn't resist.)

Pretty much this. Sometimes it makes listening to Muse somewhat difficult.

Other times I love it. I dunno why.

When while listening to a song on the iPod, certain parts are played in one ear and certain parts are played in the other. What is that even for?

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