JLTucker wrote:Anything by Green Day, Good Charlotte, Linkin Park (actually, any punk rock bands), fucking death metal bands (the screaming and growling is retarded), and all rap except 2PAC.
This implies that MC Frontalot and other Nerdcore rappers such as MC Hawking are not in fact the shit in terms of hillariousness. I challenge thy statement. But they're more using Rap as a device with which to provoke irony because of their nerd-savvy lyrics than actually extolling the virtues of speaking rythmically to a tiny musical beat in the background (Rap needs to learn the lessons of instrumentation, incidentally).
I'd like to agree with what everyone said (or at least not violently object) since I can't think of anything else more. The Black Eyed Peas, Ashlee Simpson, Gwen Stefani, and so forth are all deserving of some musical hell made of spiny, sharpened broken CD fragments and salt mountains.
Well, although strike off Pop music. Some varieties of it (tATu*-esque rock pop and some J-Pop styles that aren't
too methamphetamined up in speed and squeekyness) aren't that bad.
Throw in most techno songs. Fine to rave to, but terrible listening and musically inert. Some break the mold but they're rare. Otherwise it wouldn't be a mold.
Add in all Christian music. Christian gospel, screechy preaching to music. Christian rock, mellowed down rock with "Dare to be the same as everyone else! Christ fucking rules yeah" lyrics and faux hipness, Christian Rap for actually existing. What is it with Jesus? The man can raise the dead but he can't produce a single group in his recording studio that kicks ass?
A lot of 'Indie' music that's really just what you call a garage band that found it's way to national stage somehow. I can't call names off the top of my head but if you've heard bands like this you'd know it.
*Maybe I fell into the gimmick and drank the kool-aid but I liked tATu. Screw all you guys.