Music: so who don't you like?

Subject: RE: Music: so who don't you like?
From: Cluin
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 03:07 PM

Oh yeah, and Leonard Cohen bores me stiff. Funny... he's a great lyricist, but for some reason, I can't stand him.

Subject: RE: Music: so who don't you like?
From: greg stephens
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 03:18 PM

I can't think of any performers I dislike who make what I would call folk music, because I think folk-music has an underlying philosophy/cultural background which makes it work every time. But I can think of a hell of a lot of people who perform material of folk origin who drive me up the wall.

Subject: RE: Music: so who don't you like?
From: Raptor
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 03:38 PM

Ruffus wainright will drive me to the clocktower with an m16 within 3 notes!

Raptor

Subject: RE: Music: so who don't you like?
From: bernil
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 05:04 PM

I've got one record with the Dubliners and I like the music but... I can't stand the singer's voice! I can listen to one tune now and then, mixed with other music but listening to many songs with him is very boring! I don't know how old that record is (can't find it now but I still have it somewhere) and I don't know if he's still singing with them. I ought to know his name but I don't.

Berit

Subject: RE: Music: so who don't you like?
From: CraigS
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 05:45 PM

The difficulty with some people is that it is hard to sing their songs without imitating their voice and styling, so that anyone else doing those songs unintentionally parodies them. The prime candidates are Dylan, Baez, Neil Young and Elvis Costello. I don't like listening to any of these, because it makes my voice do funny things when I don't expect it. Axel Rose, on the other hand, is not even worth imitating unintentionally. I've heard better-sounding squeaks from Ford axles without lubrication, and one look at Mr Rose in performance will tell you he's lubricated!

Subject: RE: Music: so who don't you like?
From: BanjoRay
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 06:21 PM

We used to have Stan Hugill at our club in Aberystwyth in the sixties. The world expert on shanties- what he didn't know about them wasn't worth knowing - a lovely guy and a great character - but what a dreadful voice! If one of the nineteenth century shantymen had a voice like his, he'd have had to walk the plank tarred and feathered.
Your mileage may vary, of course
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: Music: so who don't you like?
From: GUEST,Jed
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 06:23 PM

I can't stand Rick Fielding, really dreadful to my ears

Jed