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    Re: Cringe-Worthy Music

    Quote Originally Posted by *BaseClogger* View Post
    Dom, we haven't always seen eye-to-eye in this thread, but I agree with everything you just typed. Excellent post!

    EDIT: I'm still gonna choose Hendrix, but I've always been an instruments guy. I think there is a lot more emotion that can be released from a guitar than can be expressed in lyrics. Just my opinion. But that doesn't mean I can't agree with your post.
    And full disclosure: I waked out of Dave Matthews after the 50th solo. I did.

    I play three instruments, and for me, it's always been about complimenting.

    Edie Van Halen plays a solo, it;'s bathroom time for me. I want melody, I want the lyrics. I want to sing along. I want to think about a time in my life.

    I don't want to sit there and clap along to somehting that I have no idea what I'm clapping to. Always been that way.

    And it's great that you like the instrumentation. It really is.


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    Re: Cringe-Worthy Music

    Quote Originally Posted by marcshoe View Post
    Yoko Ono.


    That was the very first thought in my mind just upon seeing the title of this thread.
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    Re: Cringe-Worthy Music

    Quote Originally Posted by Dom Heffner View Post
    I want melody, I want the lyrics. I want to sing along. I want to think about a time in my life.
    This is me too, for the most part. I'm much more likely to be the guy singing along than I am to be the guy playing air guitar. I like the way words and music come together. I marvel at musicians who are able to do this and make it seem as simple as adding 1 + 1, because for me, it might as well be splitting the atom.
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    Re: Cringe-Worthy Music

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    Of course it's a personal thing, and there's plenty of Genesis that I like and plenty that I don't like, but something about the sound of that "I Can't Dance" song always makes me want to crawl out of my skin. It's like nails on a chalkboard.

    And at the risk of seeming stuck in the past, I also nominate the entire "Top Gun" soundtrack as supremely worthy of cringe.

    For more recent stuff, anything by Three Doors Down, and while I realize it's low-hanging fruit, Nickelback. Also, someone mentioned Train earlier. That song "Hey Soul Sister" - bleccchhhh.
    Maybe this says something about my age, or just my taste, but I still listen to the Top Gun Soundtrack. Not all of it, but most of it.

    I don't get the whole "I hate Nickelback" thing. Sure, Chad isn't an artist: not pretending to be. He is a rock star. Big songs, big ballads, big shows and big money. Are any of their songs great, maybe I Wanna Be a Rockstar...the irony. I love that song. But otherwise, they are above average pop tunes. Other than Rockstar, Nickelback has written three songs: 1, Uptempo sex song...AC/DC made a career on this song. 2, Midtempo introspective song...bleh. 3, Ballad...chicks dig ballads so Nickelback sings ballads. Last year I saw Nickelback live, they put on one helluva rock show. Big lights, bigger speakers, even bigger pyrotechnics with an even bigger stage (not to mention a second stage that lifted 30 feet in the air and rotated). Are they Hendrix or Zeppelin? Obviously not. But they are everything AC/DC and Van Halen were, only to a new audience.
    What if this is as good as it gets?

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    Re: Cringe-Worthy Music

    As someone who dislikes Nickelback, I feel like they get a lot more flack than they deserve. But I'm not as ashamed as I should be to admit that I laughed at this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7W-2BJUveE

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    Re: Cringe-Worthy Music

    Quote Originally Posted by Captain13 View Post
    I don't get the whole "I hate Nickelback" thing. Sure, Chad isn't an artist: not pretending to be. He is a rock star. Big songs, big ballads, big shows and big money. Are any of their songs great, maybe I Wanna Be a Rockstar...the irony. I love that song. But otherwise, they are above average pop tunes. Other than Rockstar, Nickelback has written three songs: 1, Uptempo sex song...AC/DC made a career on this song. 2, Midtempo introspective song...bleh. 3, Ballad...chicks dig ballads so Nickelback sings ballads. Last year I saw Nickelback live, they put on one helluva rock show. Big lights, bigger speakers, even bigger pyrotechnics with an even bigger stage (not to mention a second stage that lifted 30 feet in the air and rotated). Are they Hendrix or Zeppelin? Obviously not. But they are everything AC/DC and Van Halen were, only to a new audience.
    For me, it's as simple as this: When I hear that guy's voice, I cringe. I don't hate Nickelback because it's popular to hate Nickelback; there's just nothing about their sound that even remotely appeals to me.
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    Re: Cringe-Worthy Music

    Quote Originally Posted by RichRed View Post
    For me, it's as simple as this: When I hear that guy's voice, I cringe. I don't hate Nickelback because it's popular to hate Nickelback; there's just nothing about their sound that even remotely appeals to me.
    Creed does this to me.

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    Re: Cringe-Worthy Music

    Quote Originally Posted by Dom Heffner View Post
    Creed does this to me.
    Yeah, they're about as cringe-worthy as it gets for me too.
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    Re: Cringe-Worthy Music

    Although he's a little generic, I kind of like Creed's guitarist.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnkuBUAwfe0
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lKBro5YkPs

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    Re: Cringe-Worthy Music

    Quote Originally Posted by camisadelgolf View Post
    As someone who dislikes Nickelback, I feel like they get a lot more flack than they deserve. But I'm not as ashamed as I should be to admit that I laughed at this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7W-2BJUveE
    Boo. Just because you don't like the music doesn't mean you chuck things at him/them. Poor taste Portugal. Poor taste.

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    Re: Cringe-Worthy Music

    Quote Originally Posted by dougdirt View Post
    Boo. Just because you don't like the music doesn't mean you chuck things at him/them. Poor taste Portugal. Poor taste.
    This is Nickelback, Doug.

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    Re: Cringe-Worthy Music

    Quote Originally Posted by *BaseClogger* View Post
    I agree.

    But why is it we are so quick to distinguish film based on quality but have difficulty doing the same with music?
    I don't think "we" have any difficulty distinguishing quality in music, film, etc.

    I think you just don't have the same taste as "we."

    Which is fine, I don't have the same taste as "we" either.

    And you and I are a part of "we."

    If you or I were to ask other members of "we," they'll probably say they don't have the same taste as "we," you or me either.

    Yet them, you and I are "we."

    I hope you were wearing a helmet lest your head be wrought asunder from these mindblowing ideas!

    Whee!


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    Re: Cringe-Worthy Music

    Quote Originally Posted by Dom Heffner View Post
    Is she cringe worthy? Again, another incredibly gifted writer and successful artist.

    I think cringe worthy, I think "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades."

    You guys are hating on Phil Collins and Lady Gaga. Those guys aren't cringe worthy- that's talent. That's success.

    I know it pains people to like pop music, but I don't make apologies for thinking Rod Stewart is better than Pavement. He is.
    I had Nikki Manji in mind but typed Lady Gaga for some reason

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    Re: Cringe-Worthy Music

    Don Johnson's "Heartbeat"? Or maybe that duet he did with Barbra Streisand?

    Both stomach churning affairs.


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