Musical Pet Peeves

[lyhom]

Self-explanatory.

Personally, I hate any sort of name-drop of the producer or the artist(s) before a song. If you're the artist, I already know who you are. If you're the producer, unless if you do something else other than produce in the song, then I hardly care who you are.

[CassnovA]

the high pitch sound of like an electric guitar or something. some songs leave it in at the end of the track and its just annoying and hurts my ears.

[Karkat]

Self-explanatory.

Personally, I hate any sort of name-drop of the producer or the artist(s) before a song. If you're the artist, I already know who you are. If you're the producer, unless if you do something else other than produce in the song, then I hardly care who you are.

HAH. Exactly.

For me:

-If someone covers the song and entirely changes the melody and arrangement. You can make it your own, but don't fuckin' butcher it.
-When the live version is better than the original ;A; I don't like hearing screaming fans and bad quality audio.
-Really bad backup singers
-Really irritating and prolonged repetition. Especially of something extremely short. (See: Pistol Annies' entire role in Blake Shelton's Boys Round Here)

That's all I can think of for now

[Synyster Shadows]

HAH. Exactly.

For me:

-If someone covers the song and entirely changes the melody and arrangement. You can make it your own, but don't fuckin' butcher it.
-When the live version is better than the original ;A; I don't like hearing screaming fans and bad quality audio.
-Really bad backup singers
-Really irritating and prolonged repetition. Especially of something extremely short. (See: Pistol Annies' entire role in Blake Shelton's Boys Round Here)

That's all I can think of for now

Yes this

Also, on a more technical note:

-half cadences
-deceptive cadences (sometimes)
-when, in performance, someone plays a wrong accidental - this makes me want to rip them to shreds

[Emerald Dream]

Self-explanatory.

Personally, I hate any sort of name-drop of the producer or the artist(s) before a song. If you're the artist, I already know who you are. If you're the producer, unless if you do something else other than produce in the song, then I hardly care who you are.

I know he is popular but this guy is reeeealllllllllly bad about this -

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-If someone covers the song and entirely changes the melody and arrangement. You can make it your own, but don't fuckin' butcher it.


Mariah can sing, but this is honestly one of the most painful things I have ever seen/heard.

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[Melodic]

when they can't sing and are only used for attraction.
when they can't sing the song and have a bunch of editing in the song
When a song becomes famous with no good lyrics, vocals, or music

[Fractured Silhouette]

Metallica.
Slipknot.
Nickelback.
Any mainstream pop "artist".
Obnoxious lyrics.
Songs made up of almost complete breakdowns.
Repeating a chorus more than 4 times in a song.
Mindless sheep who only appreciate the vocals of songs because they accept the trash society has fed them in the form of garbage pop music with zero musical complexity and bullshit lyrics.

[Hollywood]

Musicians with very little to no musical talent that are only famous because the record companies know they can make money off of them.

[Lonely teen]

Screaming metal, rap, ehh I'm a goody two shoes lol.

[RunnerRunner]

When people say they love the artist and only know one or 2 songs by them -.-

[grossgod11]

People who cant scream in metal, so 90% or so of the modern metal bands who scream
When one member of the band isn't as good musically as the others
When ever auto-tune or crappy vocal edits are around, learn to sing people its your job as a singer

[tdawhg99]

I hate whenever people call metal, metalcore, hardcore, and post-hardcore. screamo.... it annoys the crap out of me!

[Snowfall]

Modern day pop music trends...terrible music, overuse of autotune (ban IMO), shitty lyrics, no actual talent etc.

[backjruton]

People who release albums then re-release them such as The Fame>The Fame Monster, Lights>Bright Lights and Halcyon>Halcyon Days

Auto tune is fine but not much of it. So ke$ha's first 2 albums are a definite NO.

Songs with the producers name on the start. With Miley "Mike Will Made It" and with Dev "It's The Cataracts"

WHISTLING
Ke$ha - Crazy Kids
Dev - Take Her From You
Its even worse when I learn the tune and whenever I listen to the song i can't help whistling to it...

Teen singers talking about love. Taylor Swift is especially guilty, there's more to life than which boyfriend you just dumped or which one you had for longest and I'm glad Selena apparentlyeapparently left her...

And when they release 2 versions of a song, for the UK and the US, even though the UK album was released first and the american track sounds a little better. With Ur Love and Want U Back from Cher Lloyd are definitely guilty of this. And when the British video is calm but in the american video they wear bras a lot...

Lastly, another thing that annoys me I didn't think of until more recently is that I really hate when albums have possibly 13 tracks and only 6 of them are actually hood. 2 examples are Lady Gaga "Jewelz N' Drugs" and Katy Perry "This Is How We Do"... :mad:

[Hyper]

All the moaning pop singers of today

Especially the male ones.

''Ohh I'm so sensitive buy my records''

Crappy rock with 3 chords, 2 being power chords.

The music industry in general that produced modern pop. Get a good looking guy/girl sell her/his looks to a niche, autotune the voice, run massive ad campaigns and BOOM you got a pop star.

[ImCoolBeans]

- People who don't write their own music
- When every note sang has auto tune on it
- Lead guitarists who really shouldn't be playing lead guitar
- Really poor lyrical content

[Syvelocin]

Vocalists who are good at singing. If the average person couldn't tell your voice from someone else's, I couldn't care less about you. I need vocalists who bring something fresh and different to the table. Everyone can sing nowadays; that isn't enough. If you have a shot at winning a televised singing competition, I hate your voice.

People who sing in their accent instead of proper singing pronunciation, unless it's a key feature of the artist.

Girl and a guitar, nothing else.

Sampling is fine, only if you take it and make something original from it. *cough* Jason Derulo *cough*

[Babs]

like 20 seconds of silence after the end of the song.
irritating, boring melodies.
too much auto tune
shitty lyrics.

[lyhom]

Going to slightly bump this topic to add a few more:

- When people (usually rappers) call an alternate version of a song a remix. Unless if you have significant changes to the beat, it's solely alternate version.

- Excessive auto-tune if you're not using it to convey emotion (think 808s and Heartbreaks-era Kanye West) or to exaggerate pop music tropes to all hell (think T-Pain and Ke$ha, although I still have a hard time figuring out how seriously they take themsleves).

- When an artist releases a single that obviously is an attempt to recapture the previous one, especially their second overall single (e.g. "Team" by Lorde is strikes me as another "mainstream culture is getting repetitive and we should strive for better" anthem, although I can see the song going multiple ways so I'm not too bothered. "Main Chick" by Kid Ink is another DJ Mustard-produced track about picking up (a) girl(s) at a club with Chris Brown on the chorus.).

- Similar to the above, when a producer practically recycles one of their own beats on two different songs (Fucking Christ, Scott Storch was especially bad at this. Just listen to "Lean Back" by Terror Squad then "Candy Shop" by 50 Cent right after. The latter just sounds like a refined version of the former).

- People who seem to trade trade emotion for skill in ballads and otherwise emotional songs (Granted, this is more of a cover/singing show thing, but still. :P)

Dear god, I probably care about producing too much... xD

[PinkFloyd]

- repetition in most cases. It get's fucking annoying.

- If you can't sing, computers don't fix it.

- songs that use offensive names retard, faggot, gay, etc. etc. The only exception is "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits. It says "faggot" but that song is fantastic on so many levels.

- songs without meaning

- ANY song about "going to da club." I'm fucking sick of hearing about it. if the club can't even handle you right now, leave the club. it's really that simple.

- new country music bothers me. It's nothing but singing about girls, trucks, America, and beer. It's garbage in my opinion. Mind you that I listen to Eminem. That's saying a lot.

- new punk/metal also bugs me. I'm sorry, but the guitar is almost always terrible and the vocals are unrecognizable. Some artists could probably make a song only containingthe word "fuck" but in different lengths and tones. It would be a song because you can;t understand it.

- If the artist is a tool as a person. Why is it that you can disrespect Anne Frank in her own annex and still be called a role model?

- songs about killing people. If you sing a song with lyrics saying that you're going to kill someone, you might as well just call yourself a murderer. What about if you want to kill more than one person because of something? Well then you come across as a Hitler like figure.

That's all I got. Sorry bout that rant... lol

[Typhlosion]

Djent, unless it's good.
Eponymous album names.
Black Metal, except Agalloch :3
Deathcore

[Music Lover]

I had a lot of fun/laughs reading this thread, mainly because all of the stuff is pretty much true :D

- repetition in most cases. It get's fucking annoying.
....
- songs about killing people.

You seem to really hate the classics lol :rolleyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7cy-3f3sc8&t=45s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ&t=1m

But here's my pet peeves (not all, i can probably never remember them all lol):

-Songs with a good verse but shitty chorus, or vice versa
-Bands with good music but a shitty singer.
-Drum solos that do not groove.
-Bass solos that do not groove.
-Great bands being inactive
-Great radio stations abandoning what made them great and going for the mass media.
-Band members (especially bassists) not moving around on stage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF7vghzj6pk Especially annoying when I'm playing in the band and trying to move but nobody else moves.
-Musicians playing from sheet music and not by heart. Especially at gigs where they SHOULD be making contact with the audience.

[PinkFloyd]

I had a lot of fun/laughs reading this thread, mainly because all of the stuff is pretty much true :D



You seem to really hate the classics lol :rolleyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7cy-3f3sc8&t=45s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ&t=1m


Fuck, you got me.

[EvanIsTall]

- repetition in most cases. It get's fucking annoying.

- If you can't sing, computers don't fix it.

- songs that use offensive names retard, faggot, gay, etc. etc. The only exception is "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits. It says "faggot" but that song is fantastic on so many levels.

- songs without meaning

- ANY song about "going to da club." I'm fucking sick of hearing about it. if the club can't even handle you right now, leave the club. it's really that simple.

- new country music bothers me. It's nothing but singing about girls, trucks, America, and beer. It's garbage in my opinion. Mind you that I listen to Eminem. That's saying a lot.

- new punk/metal also bugs me. I'm sorry, but the guitar is almost always terrible and the vocals are unrecognizable. Some artists could probably make a song only containingthe word "fuck" but in different lengths and tones. It would be a song because you can;t understand it.

- If the artist is a tool as a person. Why is it that you can disrespect Anne Frank in her own annex and still be called a role model?

- songs about killing people. If you sing a song with lyrics saying that you're going to kill someone, you might as well just call yourself a murderer. What about if you want to kill more than one person because of something? Well then you come across as a Hitler like figure.

That's all I got. Sorry bout that rant... lol
Basically sums it all up. Plus your username is my favorite band in the history of ever so that makes it better!

[Babs]

Really boring melodies.
Repetitiveness.
Overuse of autotune.

[Fractured Silhouette]

Pointless filler tracks.

[Lost in the Echo]

Songs like this one:
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I just think songs such as this, and "I'm sexy and I know it" by LMFAO are just really stupid ass songs, with narcissistic, and overall pretty pointless lyrics.

[matt_tgr]

- Horrible lyrics + annoying voice (like Nicki Minaj - Stupid hoe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6j4f8cHBIM&feature=kp)... Even the name is ridiculous)
- Stupid lyrics ("Coast to coast, L.A. to Chicago" I mean seriously? I don't know a lot about US but wow...)
- And also whatever that is (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq_d8VSM0nw)...

[Vocabulous]

Crappy rock with 3 chords, 2 being power chords.



I...actually like straight forward rock music. I mean none of the good stuff is that bad, but still. See: the white stripes, the black keys, Valerie June( she is more bluesy though), the kooks (sometimes).


-Band members (especially bassists) not moving around on stage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF7vghzj6pk Especially annoying when I'm playing in the band and trying to move

As a bassist, there are several reasons that we are not as active as guitarists/singers:
1. The bass is a large, heavy instrument (see 4)
2. The bass is physically demanding to play, and it is very easy to get fret buzz. Moving around aggressively will make the fret buzz worse, unless you are just very good at playing the bass.
3. The bass is the link between the melody and the rhythm(i.e. Connecting the drums with the rest of the band) so we must be hyper-focused on what is going on and multitasking will cause mistakes
4. Bassists are lazy and will make a bunch of excuses as to why we don't dance around.
5. Flea is the exception, not the norm.

P.s. I understand that it is a joke, but in the video it is actually incredibly important to be on track and up to date with the drummer. Don't talk during the set, but still communicate

/rant

[Music Lover]

As a bassist, there are several reasons that we are not as active as guitarists/singers:
1. The bass is a large, heavy instrument (see 4)
2. The bass is physically demanding to play, and it is very easy to get fret buzz. Moving around aggressively will make the fret buzz worse, unless you are just very good at playing the bass.
3. The bass is the link between the melody and the rhythm(i.e. Connecting the drums with the rest of the band) so we must be hyper-focused on what is going on and multitasking will cause mistakes
4. Bassists are lazy and will make a bunch of excuses as to why we don't dance around.
5. Flea is the exception, not the norm.


Lol at #4 :D

But as for moving around:
1. Start small
2. Practice :)

[Karkat]

Lol at #4 :D

But as for moving around:
1. Start small
2. Practice :)

3. Huge ass arm muscles and shoulder muscles

I used to work in a job where I'd lift 50 pound boxes on a regular basis, and just generally do a lot of heavy moving with my arms. I'm also a guitarist- electric rhythm guitars are lighter than electric bass guitars, but I can't play my guitar too long or I'll get winded.

Sure, moving around would be fairly easy, but I'm a fairly big person, and I'm not playing a bass guitar. ;)

[sorane tane]

Back masking... and dubstep in the middle of a song.