Music that hits your Sour Spot

Tubaguyry · Post by **Tubaguyry** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:49 pm

Anything arranged for marching/pep band should get an STD, suffer for a while, die a painful death, and then burn in Hell for all eternity.

The same fate should fall upon the following:

MOST country music since about 1980

MOST pop music since about 1990

MOST rap

Pieces of cr...uhh, I mean "music" that are theoretically sound, very difficult to play, and have gimmicky stuff in them, that TONS of people seem to like, but that just suck as music. (Kraft's "Encounters II" comes to mind)

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:55 pm

You people don't know how lucky you are
TO HAVE MISSED THE DISCO WASTELAND OF THE 70'S!

jmh3412 · Post by **jmh3412** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:57 pm

COPLAND surely - (sad that an Englishman has to correct the spelling of one of America's most easily identified composers)

jeopardymaster · Post by **jeopardymaster** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:18 am

Any of those quodlibets for band that start out with "Selections From ..." Insert the name of any musical and PRESTO - aside from some Harold Russell Bennett arrangements (and very few of them, even), it's really pathetic.

My personal least favorite would have to be the Selections From "No, No, Nanette." Dear Lord, there's only one recognizable song in the show -- "Tea For Two." And the arranger has to find 63 new and clever ways to "bandistrate" THAT?

Just friggin' shoot me.

Wyvern · Post by **Wyvern** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:42 am

Ravel BolÃ©ro - I switch off the radio immediately it comes on - I can't stand the piece.

Anything with a harpsichord - with that horrible tingly noise it must be the worst instrument ever invented.

Most modern pop music - shows my age!

Roger Lewis · Post by **Roger Lewis** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:09 pm

I made a promise to myself that I would never, ever, ever again play the quintet version of the Sonata from the Bankelsangelieder. I have just burned out on it from 'way too many performances of it over the years.

Oh, and all that crap from the late 60's and early 70's that were more about how many noises you could make on your instrument rather than anything creative.

Roger

jeopardymaster · Post by **jeopardymaster** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:18 pm

Robert Russell Bennett. Yes. Harold Russell was the guy in "The Best Years Of Our Lives." Thanks.

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:51 pm

-Theme and variations. Yes, I know they are part of the basis for many brass solos. But I just can't stand them.

-the majority of march music.

-pop music arrangements for band, or orchestra, or any wind or string ensemble.

-the majority of country music. Especially the Nashville scene.

-Krunk. Lil' Jon has contributed to the downfall of my generation more than drugs, alcohol and tobacco combined.

-the majority of rap music. Like any form of music, though, there are good groups, (like Mos Def, The Roots, Talib Kweli, etc...) But for those few good ones, there are ten other groups like Nelly, Kanye West and Fiddy Cent.

-I'm just not a big fan of Philip Sparke's music.

-Emo music. God, I hate that whole culture.....

-I've never been a fan of the Classical period, (Mozart, etc..)

-Likewise, I'm not one much for the Romantic period.

-American music medleys, unless they're done by Charles Ives

dtemp · Post by **dtemp** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:57 pm

tubafatness wrote:
-the majority of country music. Especially the Nashville scene...

I think many will agree that some of the best American music came out of that town.

Though perhaps not recently....

tubarepair · Post by **tubarepair** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:09 pm

Them Basses - Blat fest no matter how it is played.

The Star Spangled Banner - What a terribly un-melodic tune. I'm a patriotic American, but I much prefer Oh Canada! Not the politically correct thing to say. BTW, if we have to play it with a vocalist - how about the A flat version so I don't have to hear idiots not make it to the "glare" please?

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:07 am

richland tuba 01 wrote:
tubafatness wrote:
-Emo music. God, I hate that whole culture.....

How ironic...

What? (Don't take that in a negative way, please, I just don't know what the irony is supposed to be.)

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:27 am

EuphManRob wrote:I think richland tuba 01 is saying that your quote "God, I hate that whole culture" actually sounds fairly typical of the very emo culture you despise...

If that's the case, then I said that because I'm knee-deep in that trash every day, and it gets a little tiring after awhile. Now, if I had said, "God, I hate that whole culture and my life is so dark and dramatic, and I just think I'm all alone in this world," then you might have a point. But I didn't.

NickJones · Post by **NickJones** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:22 am

Hootanany - Walters. Like musical Ebola
Instant Concert - Walters. More Musical Ebola
Instant Christmas - Walters. Ebola and flu with a bit of the Plague mixed in for good effect....

Ugh

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:39 am

NickJones wrote: Instant Concert - Walters
Ugh

How could you possibly not like such an outstanding composition? And so profound!

Teubonium · Post by **Teubonium** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:29 pm

Neil Diamond makes me want to puke

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:07 pm

OldsRecording wrote:Personally, I think Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite" could be forever stricken from the orchestral repitoire without the least injury to art.

Interestingly enough that was the piece that introduced my mother to classical music. Decades after hearing it in music appreciation class in school, she still remembered it and the effect it had on her. You never know how a slightly unconventional piece is going to reach someone who has no interest in hearing the "Three B's"

knuxie wrote:The first 10 minutes or so of Bolero.....just get to the end already!!

My wife says the same thing

Mojo workin' · Post by **Mojo workin'** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:25 pm

An American in Paris.
A very overrated piece by an overrated composer.

Pretty much anything by Dvorak. Another greatly overrated composer.

Mass market Country and ALL, yes I say ALL Rap. Abominable culture polution, the both of them.

Mojo workin' · Post by **Mojo workin'** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:56 pm

EuphManRob wrote:Well... I wasn't going to have the gumption to say it, but since others have felt free to dismiss the likes of Mozart and Beethoven, I will go ahead and say it:

Brahms!

Stodgy, boring, nothing at all that gets my blood pumping...

-Rob M.

You haven't heard enough of him. Listen to all of the symphonies, choral works, chamber works, piano works.

Are you telling me that Ein Deutsches Requiem is BORING?

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:59 am

Doc wrote:
bloke wrote:Any "piece of music" that makes a repainted early/mid 1990's GM mid-size EQUIPPED WITH NEON LICENSE PLATE sedans' dashboard uncontrollably,subsonically, and monotonously vibrate when filling up at a gas station all the way across an eight-lane highway.
That **** should be a felony punishable by immediate removal from society forever.

I may possibly agree with this more than I have ever agreed with any post on TubeNet that I have ever read!!!

Ames0325 · Post by **Ames0325** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:53 am

I have never cared much for Mozart or Bach. I also second most of what as been said about most of today's "popular" music.

Amy

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