Genres you love, but can't stand most of the bands of

[Himeaimichu 1535]

Does anyone often find genres that they love, but actually can't stand most of the bands of? I feel that often with Nu Metal. Like, I love the sound, but most of the bands that play it are just crappy. Like, only in the right hands does it sound good, and often in the right hands, it is amazing. Bands like Korn, System of a Down, middle era Dir En Grey. Especially in Vkei is Nu Metal often in the right hands with bands like Dezert, Kuroyuri to Kage, Sads, later era Kuroyume, etc. 

But dang are most of the bands hard to stand. Like, Limp Bizkit, I like the guitars, but Fred Durst can't rap for crap. Linkin Park is ehh, they're kind of only lumped into Nu Metal. Trapt are just annoying (And dicks to creators like Rob Scallon). And for some reason, Nickleback is considered Nu Metal?? (IDK how.)

Also, most of the good Nu Metal bands often either play more than Nu Metal, like Korn, who often do general Funk Rock, Dir En Grey used to be more Alternative Metal and are now Deathcore, and Kuroyuri to age and Dezert often mix the genre with Metalcore. Sads started out as Gothic rock, and Kuroyume was for the most part Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock and Gothic Rock. Other bands, such as System of a Down, are experimental with it, and often take it further than the genre's confines. 

 

Are there any genres you love, but can't stand most of the bands? I'd like to hear your thoughts

[Euronymous 325]

kuroyuri to kage and DEZERT just saved my visual kei nu-metal needs

they are the best nowadays

[Himeaimichu 1535]

Just now, Gichi Gichi said:

kuroyuri to kage and DEZERT just saved my visual kei nu-metal needs

they are the best nowadays

They truly are. You know how much I love Kuroyuri, and Dezert has become my new obsession because they're so good! Especially their bassist. Good bass players are rare in Vkei. Chiaki is also an amazing vocalist. I love how feminine the vocals are

[Takadanobabaalien 3607]

Does anyone often find genres that they love, but actually can't stand most of the bands of? 

 

visual kei

[itsukoii 1300]

48 minutes ago, AimiGen7 said:

Dir En Grey used to be more Alternative Metal and are now Deathcore, and Kuroyuri to age and Dezert often mix the genre with Metalcore

 

not to be like that but i'm gonna have to stop you right there buddy

[Himeaimichu 1535]

Just now, itsukoii said:

 

not to be like that but i'm gonna have to stop you right there buddy

Was there anything incorrect in my statement? If so, I'll correct it within reason

[saishuu 3220]

12 minutes ago, Takadanobabaalien said:

Does anyone often find genres that they love, but actually can't stand most of the bands of? 

 

visual kei

 

[suji 8317]

i love metal, but most metal bands all sound the same, and/or they sound retarded when they scream. especially j-metal bands :/

[whitegrey 115]

I love some good HipHop/Rap with meaningful, deep (sometimes political) lyrics and a high skill level regarding the intelligent use of language, grammar, rhymes (native language is a plus)... Needless to say this stuff is quite hard to find and buried under a sh*tload of testosterone-driven gangster-stuff praising booty, booze, drugs, money and whatnot... D;

 

It does exist to, it's just like... rare...

[Himeaimichu 1535]

Just now, whitegrey said:

I love some good HipHop/Rap with meaningful, deep (sometimes political) lyrics and a high skill level regarding the intelligent use of language, grammar, rhymes (native language is a plus)... Needless to say this stuff is quite hard to find and buried under a sh*tload of testosterone-driven gangster-stuff praising booty, booze, drugs, money and whatnot... D;

 

It does exist to, it's just like... rare...

As a former Hip Hop person, I totally agree with you there! I notice often the best Rap comes from the 80's and 90's, back when rhyming and all was considered the mark of a skilled rapper. 

There is some modern rap I listen to occasionally, such as Childish Gambino, but yeah. Good rap is hard to find. 

[For my dears 58]

there's not any 'bands' on this genre lmao but I can't really stand classical baroque music except for a few composers like Bach, Buxtehude or Rameau  to name a few. These guys have write stuff for lute and some sonatas  that I really dig but I can't stand the rest of their music.

[Himeaimichu 1535]

1 minute ago, For my dears said:

there's not any 'bands' on this genre lmao but I can't really stand classical baroque music except for a few composers like Bach, Buxtehude or Rameau  to name a few. These guys have write stuff for lute and some sonatas  that I really dig but I can't stand the rest of their music.

The only classical music composer I actually ever actively listened to was Mozart, and that's mostly because one of his pieces was in a videogame I used to play alot xD

[doombox 4421]

This is me for basically every genre I actively listen to. Even most bands I like I don't like all of their music, I only like a few albums here or there. 

[Himeaimichu 1535]

31 minutes ago, doombox said:

This is me for basically every genre I actively listen to. Even most bands I like I don't like all of their music, I only like a few albums here or there. 

Same for me. Like, with Kuroyume, I love their early Alternative Rock/Metal and Gothic Rock stuff, their late 90's era Punk stuff and some of their more modern stuff (Normally the NuMetal ones xD), but I can't really like anything in between the early era and the Punk era, because even though I don't believe they were ever truly pop rock, they were kind of close at one point. 

The only band I like every song from is Kuroyuri to Kage, but they don't even have that much of a discography to speak of

[YuyoDrift 1540]

Hip-Hop

[Furik 832]

Does anyone often find genres that they love, but actually can't stand most of the bands of?

 

Classical music

 

god that Bach is such a hipster scenester. his fans are nothing but entitled pricks with their classical vinyls and sheet music.

[Himeaimichu 1535]

2 hours ago, Furik said:

Does anyone often find genres that they love, but actually can't stand most of the bands of?

 

Classical music

 

god that Bach is such a hipster scenester. his fans are nothing but entitled pricks with their classical vinyls and sheet music.

xD idk whether this is meant to be an ironic joke, but it's quite true. 

Classical music buffs in general are often very elitist, and think music should only be for the rich and religious like it was back then. Like, brah, if only rich people could experience music, you wouldn't be a classical music buff because you're not even upper middle class xD

[efuru 255]

I love pop which I know is very broad but I do love a good pop album but a lot of these new artists make such shitty albums. Maybe a good song or two but the rest is shite. 

Zara Larsson's So Good album was great. Ariana Grande's Dangerous Woman was as well. 

[frozen_bug 25]

VISUAL KEI

God, I LOVE some Visual Kei bands (some of my fav bands) but given the amount of VK out there, I must hate 97% of it.

 

POP

 

BLACK METAL

There are too many pretentious bands that want to pretend to be brutal but they are actually ridiculous and their music is crappy.

[Himeaimichu 1535]

12 minutes ago, sp_93 said:

VISUAL KEI

God, I LOVE some Visual Kei bands (some of my fav bands) but given the amount of VK out there, I must hate 97% of it.

 

POP

 

BLACK METAL

There are too many pretentious bands that want to pretend to be brutal but they are actually ridiculous and their music is crappy.

Don't also forget that Black Metal is notorius for having potato quality recordings xD

And some of the Norwegian bands take the imagery WAY too far. 

I really would like black metal, with its thrash influenced riffing in arabesque, "demonic" scales, if only the bands didn't try to be so edgy, and they learned how to scream. The raspy screams, they don't make you sound demonic, they make you sound like a Scene Kid who just discovered Asking Alexandria xD

[suji 8317]

4 hours ago, AimiGen7 said:

Don't also forget that Black Metal is notorius for having potato quality recordings xD

 

Shitty recording quality is what makes black metal great, especially when it's underground. When Dimmu Borgir made it mainstream, it kinda downgraded from there and it started to sound like everything else. The sound itself diffrientiates it from other genres of metal.  The quality just makes it sound more... obscure? Kinda like those rare 90s tapes from vk bands who only released like, 2 demos and then broke up. 

Edited May 12, 2017 by sheepprincessgara

[Bear 1817]

The "poor" quality of the recordings are often what makes the recording great. Black metal is, in 98% of the cases, all about creating a certain kind of atmosphere and if you take away the production you're often left with nothing as the genre isn't based much around the riffs themself or anything like that, as opposide to thrash which is all about riffs.

 

And I don't see how norwegians take the imagery way too far. They're not worse than other countries at all.

[Karma’s Hat 3107]

Honestly nothing brings the cringe quite like seeing people comment on underground metal culture without having any actual insight about it. Every time I see any one of the usual cliches being regurgitated I don't even have to read half-way through a sentence to determine that the person's familiarity with the genre consists of giggling to an Immortal video and a whole bunch of hearsay. 

 

 

[Tokage 5930]

Genres you love but can't stand most bands of?

 

N E O F O L K

[Karma’s Hat 3107]

47 minutes ago, Tokage said:

Genres you love but can't stand most bands of?

 

N E O F O L K

 

Oh my god that's the fucking definition of it. I love the concept, I think old DI6 is fabulous and every time I put on Nada or the Brown Book or World That Summer I get the urge to find out more

 

then the genre is a bunch of corny nazis or hipsters  in either in knitted sweaters or really hamming it up with some bastardised version of Laibach. DI6 is awesome because it really dug deep into that whole romantic mysticism of evropa and sounded like it was channeling something ancient with the nationalist socialist disco music. The worst are those bands who put on oldie time peasant pants and play the fucking fiddle. That's not folk, that's a mouldy museum piece appropriated for contemporary times in such a way that every ancestor is shamed in the process.