Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

Plot twist: it turns out the POV character is actually an omniscient being with amnesia.

 

Maybe not annoying exactly, but I find the fact that there are no timeouts in soccer to be disorienting.

 

@The Dapper Hooligan - not altogether sure what point ur making with that song, but it’s definitely less offensive than the stuff I’m talking about.

 

Modern artist covering a modern song (2018) that was originally sung by Miley Cyrus and covered with minimal processing. I'm not saying there aren't attention whoring schlubs out there, I'm just thinking you might not be looking in the right places. Also hopefully someone liked it. I'm rather fond of Like a Version for seeing different artists takes on other peoples music.

 

See...that was an enjoyable rant (apols) dear @Jud...but...respectfully...you’re not exactly tucking all the bases when it comes to ‘modern music.’

What about the black metal movement sweeping from the pole? That’s a fun scene: no marketing, no image, the audience only by accident and some word of mouth in the darkness. Musicality optional. All the Bill Hicks any man could ever need. I knew it was coming the anti-net.

you heard it here first from @mat pencil user.

Also ‘folk.’

 

The thing is, current music has always been crap, probably back to the second caveman who learned to bash a rock with something approaching a rhythm, it's just that history (in the form of the FM station's program director or whatever algorithm passes for that these days), like Beau Brummel's valet, doesn't remember the failures. A couple months ago I did a deep dive into Donovan. Mellow Yellow, Sunshine Superman, and Hurdy Gurdy Man are timeless classics (well, maybe), but he (and I'm picking on him only as an example) recorded a lot of crap as well. Death of a Ladies' Man wasn't exactly Leonard Cohen's fault, but it's atrocious nonetheless, and the same year that brought us Papa Don't Preach and The Harlem Shuffle introduced the world to this bit of musical genius:

 

@The Dapper Hooligan and @matwoolf - I readily admit I’m talking about a specific genre of modern music, I just don’t know what it’s called. If ur in the UK you’ll find it on Capital Radio, which is the station I have to endure on my way into work in the morning. I’m talking about your Sam Smiths, your Lewis Capaldis, your Ed Sheerans...

 

I’m hesitant to condemn that stuff. I’ve done some mind numbing jobs - and you start off with radio 4 - before long somehow drifting toward the pap, almost a solidarity, celebration of the inane. That’s why my writing’s so inane.

 

The "today's pop music" argument is pure juvenoia. Popular music is built and designed to have broad appeal and be shiny. Not good. It's no worse that it always was, trust me. Not that it was ever great. People will always love music more specific to themselves, than music that was engineered to speak to everyone; the conversation usually ends up being kind of bland and low-level. That's what music is, just a one-sided conversation. And when you talk to some people like they're "just like everyone else" they will eventually get offended once they figure it out. I know I did.

Still, there's usually one or two popular songs that are worth listening to.

-SIN

 

Thank you @Iain Aschendale

Also my own personal 80s favourite:

 

From what I can find it says 'Contemporary' as the genre of music.
So, Pop Music?! They also claim to play No. 1 Hits, which seem
to always be Pop, and I doubt they play much else, maybe a bit of R&B?

Will call it Millinial Auto-tune Garbage Noise, since it is always the latest
repetitive catchy crap written on the Latest MacBook Snobbery.
Never gets any better, and 99.9% are written by an algorithm and use the
same beats and tempos adding more to the broader Commercial bilge pump
known as Pop Music.

 

I’m getting annoyed at myself watching ‘first time hearing bohemian rhapsody’ toobs (sniff)..and yesterday ‘first time hearing Beatles.’ He was a proper idiot - ‘Y’know, think they may be the first boy band. Let me know what u think in the comments, remember to like..’

 

God...I do this with Pink Floyd. Why? I just end up in an unending chain of videos, with only two or three really getting the music.

-SIN

 

You like what you like and don't what you don't. I'm not here to tell you you're wrong in that, I just really like music.It's one of the few things that's consistently given me joy over the course of my life and tend to get a little overenthusiastic at times.

 

Yeah, Pink Floyd was the original worm with the faces of beatification...’my gaad’ and all the grandpas in the comments: ‘like my first memory of Sidney Barrett, makes the heart weep to see folk worship at the temple of.Ooma Goobi’

euuch

 

@DapperHooligan. Learn to control your passion for pop. Some of us hate music, remember please.

 

What happened to the matwoolf I used to know? You used to like it when I was out of control. Don't bring me down. No, no, no, no, no. I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor: don't bring me down!

 

Now you’re just a matwoolf that I used to know.

 

I was once speaking with a guy (passionate about music) whom I’d known for a relatively short time and he asked me, ‘So what does your music collection consist of?’ I thought for a moment and said, ‘I don’t really have a collection as such. Just the odd CD I’ve acquired from various sources.’

He was genuinely flabbergasted and couldn’t get his head around the fact music played a minuscule part in my life. I could honestly live without it.

 

But there are some songs that all people love. Nothing you can do about it...Even if you hate music with a white hot passion, you like those songs. I agree with Nietzsche, which is rare, "Without music, life would be a mistake."

-SIN

 

@Cave Troll - now you’re talking, but that’s not genuine lift music - it’s a poor interpretation of lift music. But if we’re going down that path I prefer 60s Italian Lounge.

 

Innumerable production company credits, all with cutesy names and logos, at the beginning of every film.

 

#GODBLESSTHEEIGHTIES
#KROQ
#FLASHBACKWEEKEND

 

I remember when opening credits consisted of the makers and producers, now the company supplying the bog roll for the portaloos want their name up there!