Which traditionally shat-upon music genre could you most easily tolerate?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

Poll question: Which traditionally shat-upon music genre could you most easily tolerate?

A "best of the worst" poll for the masochists among us. Keep in mind I'm reflecting the WORST of each of these genres here--the most commercialized, whacked-out, foul example of each genre you could imagine. Think Toby Keith or Trace Adkins instead of Johnny Cash, for example, or the dumbest Fitty Cent tracks rather than the old-school rap.

[Fox Mulder]

1. The only one I could barely tolerate on that list is...

Adult Contemporary.

The rest just make me want to :puke:.

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Marching Band.

:+

[mikeytherat]

3. As a funk musician I'd have thought "Disco," but I would have been wrong.

Once, while painting a ceiling, I left the stereo on the Music Choice "Disco" channel and, holy hell, there was some seriously, seriously bad disco. I am well-versed in funk, R&B and disco but, wow, there were some real clunkers. And being up on a scaffold, painting a ceiling, I had to just live with it. Once I reached a stopping point, I scrambled down and changed it to Classic R&B. Much better station.

mikey_the_rat

[Greyskye]

4. None - you can't make meeeeeee!

(click below for the good stuff!) :evilgrin:

[End Of The Road]

5. Some of my old favs are now found in "Easy Listening"

It's just too humiliating. I'll never be able to buy John Denver again.

[CBGLuthier]

6. Smooth Jazz

Because at least most of it does not have any lyrics or singing. All the other genres would expose one to bad lyrics and singing (or rapping).

I could tolerate a little of it and just pretend it is real jazz done badly. :-)

[CatholicEdHead]

7. Jazz, as it usualy overlaps with Classical

I like the good old traditional instruments.

[Initech]

8. I could name more than a few hip-hop artists I listen to.

[otherlander]

9. Can trip-hop count as hip-hop?

[trof]

10. OK. What, exactly, is 'smooth jazz'?

Artists?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

12. Kenny G.

Need I say anything else?

:scared:

[trof]

16. Yeah. Who is Kenny G.?

I know...I know.
I'm a geezer and hopelessly out of touch.
I shouldn't even be allowed to be posting in the Lounge.
:-(

[WritingIsMyReligion]

17. LOL.

Kenny G is a "saxophonist"--in quotes because what he does is spew bullshittt. :D

[TZ]

11. I like disco

Its fun to dance to!

[LSdemocrat]

13. Being born in 1980, I've never really been too exposed to the worst of the disco era

So, my knowledge of disco basically consists of stuff that still gets played on the radio like the Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, etc., all of which I basically like.

[Cabcere]

14. I grew up in a pretty rural area.

Rural, as in, the theme for our homecoming dance was "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" (you can't make this stuff up!), so I'm pretty much immune to modern country. ;) Some of it's even OK sometimes...of course, maybe that's just the effect of too much exposure, lol. :hi:

[KG]

15. smooth jazz isn't really bad to me, it's just so...so not even there.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Is punk traditionally shat upon?

I can do punk — especially surf punk. Or psychobilly.

[Forkboy]

19. Yeah, but us punks don't mind. We wear it as a badge of honor.

:)

[darkstar]

20. Muzak actually puts me in an altered state of some sort

Or it least it feels that way. No wonder they play it in the institution in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

[WildEyedLiberal]

21. Wow, those are all really atrocious

I can tolerate some adult contemporary, but you asked us to imagine the worst, wankiest examples, so with Michael Bolton screeching in my head, I can't in good conscience say I could tolerate it. At all. Maybe disco, only because as a child of the 80s I haven't been inundated to the point of nausea with it.

[last_texas_dem]

22. It's got to be disco for me

I have an abnormally high tolerance for seventies music of all stripes, it seems... But I've never really gotten the hatred of disco. I like a lot of prog and a lot of disco and I think that the two can coexist peacefully in a music collection.

And that means bad disco as well- not just the Bee Gees and the mid-seventies higher-quality stuff like "Rock the Boat"; I'm talkin' "Get Dancin'" by Disco Tex and the Sex-o-Lettes! It's a pretty cool song in my opinion. haha

I also like plenty of stuff from the other genres as well. Smooth jazz is mostly inoffensive to me 'cause it's generally so unremarkable, and I love my share of sappy adult contemporary songs as well.