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New column: Rockin' in the New Year, under certain specific conditions I'm looking forward to some great new music this year. Music I can lose myself in, music I can sing along with. Music I can play while I do what I've managed to convince myself is dancing. I have very eclectic tastes. Rare indeed is the genre that doesn't have at least one song on my playlist. There are hymns that stir my soul, country songs that get my feet tapping, rap music that makes my head snap around, and rock that boils my blood and causes other pressing health emergencies. But explaining my specific preferences is a difficult matter, so instead I'll list what I don't like.
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I hate- Boring pop songs with the same repetative beat that have no feeling and sound generic. Country music that is too twangy. Rubber band music. That avant garde stuff with videos featuring women with pale painted faces going "ooo wa ooo wa ooo wa ooo." after some guy places, twang twang twang on a Japanese shamishen with these wooooooooo, wooooooooosh noises in the background. People who think it's cool to play badly and that somehow is artistic, like the kind of saxaphone playing that is just ripping through keys until they don't sound the slightest bit pretty but instead sound like the soundtrack to a movie about a nuclear holocaust at the scene where the hero is walking through some exploded field as a mutant. I hate people like Rod Steward trying to cover standards that can ONLY be sung by people like Ella Fitzgerald who's voices don't sound like blood souring chalkboard noises. I heard a song that was Rod Steward and Cher! Singing Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. Why?! Bad versions of Christmas songs. Only Nat King Cole should be allowed to sing the Christmas Song and no one else. Generic movie music. The sort of heavy metal with a guy singing, LIFE SUCKS, SATAN, DEMON, DEVILS, LIPSTICK at the top of his lungs with repetative guitars blaring. Gradeous classical music in the bland key of G with too many trumpets that makes you think a king is about to march in. There are exceptions to these rules. If it moves me, makes me feel, shakes me down to the body and to the soul... Then I love it no matter what.
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Rap versions of old songs, was a big fad to play during closing credits of movies in the 90's. Seems to be over now, but I'm watching.
Songs by whomever the latest "I am the devil incarnate" idiot is. Alice Cooper already did it, and better, 30 years ago.
Any song I used to like before it became shorthand for a decade of music. Here I'm thinking "Jack and Diane," which I used to like before every radio station that plays "The 80's, 90's, and today!" started using it as their default song. Lately I've begun to fantasize about Jack and Diane getting killed in some sort of industrial accident, possibly a thresher.
Any song I used to like before I found out what the lyrics were. The jury's still out on "Calling All Angels," which I still conditionally like until I find out what was meant by the line "when football teams are kissing queens." Are they including in their list of modern woes the fact that sports teams are following the money rather than the love of the game? Or is it homophobic? I need to know before I can sing along.
Any song included as background music to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, because my son plays it at a level usually reserved for aircraft landings.
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I am so toatlly with you on the "songs I like until I hear the lyrics" thing, and the "video was so neat I started liking the song" thing. Loved Christopher Walken dancing. That was cool.
Remember that song "More Than Words"? I hate that song with the fiery passion of a thousand white-hot suns. Hate , hate it HATE IT. I thought it was this sweet love song until I listened for content and realized the gist of it was "f**king means never having to say I love you". Hate it. I know some people interpret it differently, but I have never heard it say anything but the above. Sorry.
Then again, imagine my chagrin when I heard my four year old singing "Stacy's Mom Has Got it Going On". Actually, he sang, "Ms. Tracy's Mom has got it going on" which makes sense when you realize one of his preschool teachers (his favorite, natch) is named Tracy.
That was one song I kind of liked. Just too catchy. And I remember all my brother's friends mooning over my mom when I was a wee thing, and it was harmless. But still.
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quote:while I do what I've managed to convince myself is dancing.
Good stuff.
I generally like music that I can rock out to. This is my term for it, at least. It encompasses a wide range of genres.
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I can tell I'm a mother. The kids are home for another snow day, so while I work, they are watching Veggie Tales Silly Song collection, and I think my favorite songs of all time may come from there.
"My Cheeseburger" is a definite favorite. I am just sorry that it doesn't include "Bellybutton", about a N'Sync-lookalike gourd with a desperate secret -- he has no bellybutton. I love that song.
My entire playlist is kids songs. How pathetic. me
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Why? My playlist for my computer's MP3s includes a couple songs from Aladdin, some from The Nightmare Before Christmas, and a couple Animaniacs songs.
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quote: Any song I used to like before I found out what the lyrics were. The jury's still out on "Calling All Angels," which I still conditionally like until I find out what was meant by the line "when football teams are kissing queens." Are they including in their list of modern woes the fact that sports teams are following the money rather than the love of the game? Or is it homophobic? I need to know before I can sing along.
I totally and completely agree in regards to this song. I liked it, but that lyric grates on me because I have no idea what it means and it's possibly offensive.
As for me, there are a few songs that I absolutely can't stand. They're mostly by Creed and Avril Lavigne. (shudder)
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I hate hearing an excellent heavy metal band only to find out they are singing something racist! That just frustrates me.
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I found out that my five-year-old likes Nickelback when I was driving yesterday. I turned my head to see if anyone was coming on the right hand side, and Christopher had his hand out in the 'rock on' position, mouthing 'this is how you remind me what I really am' with a serious grimace.
I'm just glad that was actually the song playing, or I would have worried a bit more
I like Creed. So sue me. So does Christopher. Nyah nyah nyah. I used to like Avril Lavigne before I found out that the Matrix wrote all of her songs for her. If she hadn't put herself out as a singer/songwriter in the first place, I wouldn't have been so disappointed in her when I found out. Pooey.
I'm enjoying free music from amazon.com (in the download section) recently. It's not all good, but it's easy to prune out the stuff I don't like (LOVE the 'delete' button, hehe). A real gem: Marc Gunn, a celtic harper (a steel harp? something like that). He has a superfunny song called "The Leprechaun Song", it's hard to explain. He also has some very lovely ballads. There's quite a variety of world music there, too, some stuff I might not ordinarily get to hear. There's an Erasure 'soundalike' called "Neuropa" that is fun and fluffy.
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