Nails on a chalkboard

[Ex-zombie]

Is there a singer or a band that you just cannot stand to listen to?

I have a wide range of musical taste but I cannot stand the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Anthony Kiedis's voice sounds to me like a dying pig. It grates on my ears and my nerves like nothing I have ever heard.

It wasn't like I thought their sound was okay and I just got sick of them. The first song I heard by them made me grit my teeth. I don't think any less of other people who enjoy the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The jaw clenching is almost an involuntary reaction.

[Dingfod]

For me, that would include the vast majority of the Heavy Metal genre. Why must they scream?

[Godless Wonder]

That song "More than words" (I think it was called) by Extreme (a band known (once upon a time) for their guitar player, Nuno Bettencourt, more than for anything else) that song.... erk.... shudder. Sucked in a way similar to some of the Red Hot Chili Peppers stuff, in a way -- in that bad way -- but the RHCP are more tolerable to me.

Just about any of the R&B "divas" that do that exaggerated warbling lips-gone-insane thing... singing like a parody of a Jim Carrey parody of a singer -- or, in a similar vein, the kind of thing Jamie Foxx might sing. Ugh. Not my cup of tea.

King Diamond. Just try to listen to that crap and not laugh.

Warrenly, not all heavy metal is screaming: Arguably for instance, Ozzy, Rob Halford (Judas Priest) and Ronnie James Dio are all decent singers (means: hit the pitches and have good range.)

Oh... Cypress Hill, "Insane in the Membrane" I think they found some sample... a badly played saxamaphone, perhaps.. that's worse than nails on a chalkboard and incorporated it into their song.... Same with that Beastie Boys song, "Brass Monkey"... the most irritating horns imaginable.

[wade-w]

Rap. It literally gives me a headache.

[Adora]

Hmmmm....

Yeah, a lot of metal irks me. Screaming is not cool.

Avril Lavigne. Just. Die. Bitch.

[Ex-zombie]

Metal and rap don't bother me. As much as I dislike country music it doesn't get to me the way the RHCP do. Their songs make me want to scream. Like a girl!
:puke:

[viscousmemories]

Weird. I love the Chili Peppers and Cypress Hill specifically, as well as most rock and rap generally. I also like what I've heard of opera, classical, jazz, blues, 'alternative', experimental, tribal, R-n-B, and just about every other type of music I've ever heard. But there is a certain quality of vocal (I call it 'twang' because I don't know the technical term) common to many country singers that is to me worse than fingernails on a chalkboard. More like I'd rather shoot a nailgun into my ear than listen to it...

[Shaguar]

Chris Deburgh - lady in red
Maria Carey - anything
Queen Elton John's candle in the wind (barf barf barf)
Techno
garage
modern Jazz

Perhaps I am just a grumpy old git :D

[livius drusus]

Americans who sing with British accents drive me apeshit: like Madonna on a bad day or Sarah Michelle Gellar in the otherwise stellar Buffy musical episode.

[Brimshack]

Speaking of accents, when did Jamacan accents become a standard musical instrument? I swear some day I'm going to see an interview, and it's goinjg to play like this:

Interviewer: So what instrument do you play in the band?

Midwesterner: Oh I play the Jamaican accent.

Interviewer: Really, I don't understand.

Midweterner: Oh, I used to play the drums, but our other Jamaicanist went back to Jersey to work for his dad, so I had to pick it up.

Interviewer: Was it hard to master?

Midwesterner: Oh ya mon, I hadda study for a whole weak ya know. It wuz duh hardest ting I ever done.

...GROAN!

I can't remem,ber the name of the guy, the one who sings for Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corigan, or something like that? He always sounds like he is singing the way non-singers sing along to the radio. You know, just a little softer and higher than the real singer, like their voice is coming in from a distance. In short, he fakes singing the same way people do on the way to work every day.

Mariah Carrey, for reasons outlined above. Such a fantastic range, and all she can do in every song is scales. Stop showing off bitch, and hold a frigging note! She could use a little more volume too. Another faker.

I don't even know the name of the band, but the fricking song has a line something like "...I'm not a perfect person." I think the theme is that he loves this woman so much that he wants to become a better person for her. It's like listening to a 14 year old drone on about his true love. My friend plays that all the fucking time. ARGH!

I like Halford, Dio, and Ozzy, but all the Medium-Weight Aluminum bands drive me nuts (you know, the 80s hair bullshit), and some of the grumble-grumble-growl-growl stuff I hear today gets tiring. If they would punctuate their songs with screams and growls that'd be fine, but all the way through a whole album, it just gets tiring.

[Ymir's blood]

I don't even know the name of the band, but the fricking song has a line something like "...I'm not a perfect person." I think the theme is that he loves this woman so much that he wants to become a better person for her. It's like listening to a 14 year old drone on about his true love. My friend plays that all the fucking time. ARGH!

Is this it?
Hoobastank "The Reason" (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/hoobastank/thereason.html)
I hate that song. Actually half the crap on the radio sounds like that, I can't tell one band from another. :whup:

Actually more than the song itself, the band's name just sounds horrible to me. AFAIK it doesn't mean anything, but the collection of sounds is like 'nails on a chalkboard' to me. :verysick:

[livius drusus]

:verysick:

[OCD derailment] Isn't that smiley AWESOME? :bliss: [/OCD derailment]

[Ymir's blood]

:verysick:

[OCD derailment] Isn't that smiley AWESOME? :bliss: [/OCD derailment]
livius gains 2 geek points. :wink:

[livius drusus]

livius gains 2 geek points. :wink:

:woohoo:
Wait til you see the extra-special ones I got from the pros at DeviantArt.

[D. Scarlatti]

"Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent." - Elvis Costello

[livius drusus]

He he... Elvis is so wise. Did you ever see his guest appearance on The Larry Sanders Show? Pee your pants funny, it was.

[livius drusus]

Actually more than the song itself, the band's name just sounds horrible to me. AFAIK it doesn't mean anything, but the collection of sounds is like 'nails on a chalkboard' to me. :verysick:

Oh yes, not to be excessively on topic or anything, but I hate that name too. It sounds like some kind of crazy hybrid Amsterdam weed - which would normally be a draw for me - but it's just so ANNOYING!

[Shake]

How 'bout metal and Jamaican? Skindread (http://www.rock-city.co.uk/content/EppFEVVupZoCeCiCnV.shtml) ... other than hearing the single on the radio, I can't find much out about this band.

On-topic: most of AC/DC's stuff. Yeah. Give the mic to the guy who sounds like he's got half a lung left.

Static-X.

[D. Scarlatti]

Did you ever see his guest appearance on The Larry Sanders Show?

I think he was on a couple of times. One time Hank bought a used car from him, and the other time he trashed his dressing room and Larry said, "We haven't had this much trouble since Angela Lansbury" or something.

[livius drusus]

I think he was on a couple of times. One time Hank bought a used car from him, and the other time he trashed his dressing room and Larry said, "We haven't had this much trouble since Angela Lansbury" or something.

I meant the Hank one ("Save it for your limey bullshit love songs. You owe me money, asshole."), but the other one was hilarious too. God I love that show (and I love Elvis too).

[godfry n. glad]

opera - I have yet to find one I can sit through

Irish tenors - three notes and I'm outta the room

most heavy metal - this stuff is good only to get one out of bed to turn off the damned alarm blaring it out out

christmas carols - MAKE IT STOP! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE...MAKE IT STOP!

godfry

[seebs]

Mike Doughty.

I don't know why, but his voice drives me ABSOLUTELY NUTS. I hate it hate it hate it.

Especially on Unmarked Helicopters. That song SUCKS! Worse than anything!

Let's see. There's some pop star, whose name I forgot, who did a really bad love song I hated enough that I would put things down and walk out of the store if it came on the store radio. Song was something like Roll To Me, and it was just AWFUL.

[Sweetie]

Eminem

Some of his stuff I can stand, but not much.

[JoeP]

You guys must be related to my wife - apparently the music I like is excruciating. Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumpkins ... these are some of the greatest bands ever. Adora, Avril Lavigne has a lovely voice! :bow: And why has no one mentioned The Cure? Robert Smith is the best. And Radiohead.

I think I agree with vm though - there's something in some styles of country music that grates unbearably. I have a cassette of The Goodies (old British comedy group) which includes a rip-off country track with lines like
I love to hear a dawg in pain
Or a chicken bein' flattened by a train
...

[viscousmemories]

Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumpkins ... these are some of the greatest bands ever. <skip reference to cute but obnoxious skater-chick> And why has no one mentioned The Cure? Robert Smith is the best. And Radiohead.
I agree with every point in this quote. :yup:

[Ymir's blood]

Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumpkins ... these are some of the greatest bands ever. <skip reference to cute but obnoxious skater-chick> And why has no one mentioned The Cure? Robert Smith is the best. And Radiohead.
I agree with every point in this quote. :yup:
I like the Chili Peppers (except for memories of my college roommate blowing out my speakers listening to them) and the Pumpkins. Avril Lavigne's first single was ok, since then they've been excruciating. I'm not familiar with The Cure except for Lovesong, which is pretty good. As for Radiohead, I like Creep but nothing else I've heard.

[Shake]

Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumpkins ... these are some of the greatest bands ever. <skip reference to cute but obnoxious skater-chick> And why has no one mentioned The Cure? Robert Smith is the best. And Radiohead.
I agree with every point in this quote. :yup:
I like the Chili Peppers (except for memories of my college roommate blowing out my speakers listening to them) and the Pumpkins. Avril Lavigne's first single was ok, since then they've been excruciating. I'm not familiar with The Cure except for Lovesong, which is pretty good. As for Radiohead, I like Creep but nothing else I've heard.
I know lots more Cure, but I do agree with the Radiohead statement.

Bruce Springsteen can't sing worth a shit either.