I think we should all list what would be musical torture for us specifically. I’ll start:
Matchbox 20 - any record. The thought of Rob Thomas’s voice makes me want blow their music out of my head…with a bullet.
Also, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, and EVERY RAP ARTIST that has released a song in the last 5 years can all do the world a favor and die
Me, it’s childrens’ Christian music. Or Christian childrens’ music. Whatever.
Half the time they steal the melody of some unsuspecting traditional nursery rhyme and set J-E-S-U-S to Bingo was his name-o.
And there’s plenty of really tacky and corny religious stuff that gives me similar willies.
That kinda stuff makes me wanna put Rob Thomas thru my head!
Nickleback and Creed.
Talk about the Barney music, I had reason to hear a guy by the name of Raffi, who plays music for children and they supposedly love it. It sent shivers up my spine when I heard it and thought it was definitely playing down to kids on top of mediocre performance value.
http://www.google.com/musica?aid=4aesIoTJpyO&sa=X&oi=music&ct=result
I’ll second the Creed and Christian music overall. Ugh. Puke.
Yeah, I forgot to mention that I hate anyone who sings like those guys…there is a whole list of em. My friends and I have affectionately (or not) dubbed this type of singing “The White-Man’s Disease.” It is the semi-macho but also almost southern sounding(?) method of singing that was began by Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder (who was original and actually good), but was then ruined by an insufferable list of imitators. There are also black men who have said white man’s disease. i.e. Hootie and the Blowfish. Creed, Nickleback, Matchbox 20, 3 doors down, and others all fall into this singing category. It is hard to describe with text…but I’m sure everyone here knows exactly the type of gut-wrenching singing I’m talking about.
They ain’t no Steve Perry, that’s fo sho.
I <3 steve perry…and his mullet and chuck taylor’s
According to the RIAA (and Wikipedia), Journey is the 28th best-selling band of all-time.
Yeah!
Play the fucking Polar Express soundtrack. They play this at work and it makes me envy the deaf.
then again…i actually like Asia…does that make me gay like they said in 40 year old virgin?
yes.
Bill, you know I respect you like you’re a part of my family, but did you just badmouth Raffi? That man was a huge part of my childhood. Baby Beluga, Down by the Bay…these songs defined who I was to become. He is a Canadian legend, and gave kids some good wholesome folk music entertainment. It’s Raffi man…you Americans aren’t even supposed to know about him, let alone cast judgement.
x mas music played over and over and over is torture that many of us go through this time of year
^ true dat.
oh no, I dint say dat.
oh help me lord.
^^Didn’t mean to insult your baseline, Devon, but my daughter just gave me a Christmas CD of his to copy for her, and so I listened to the whole thing, and unfortunately, didn’t think much of it. Do you still play him now?
They should add a shredding BFFCFM maybe a horror inducing Carini
Of course I don’t, but if that’s his old xmas album from 1983, I still have that on tape. I used to listen to that all the time as a kid. Yeah, of course I couldn’t listen to it now, but it’s not the worst thing that a young kid could be listening to.
^I agree. Neither is the Barney music. I thought we were talking relativity here as to what we would consider torturous now.
^ Were we? I didn’t even know what this thread was about. I just saw the word Raffi and started typing. lol.
You want torturous? Listen to Colin James singing Into the Mystic.