Rock. Classic Rock. Southern Rock. If it rocks, I probably like it.
Unless it’s Punk Rock. Nope. Music should go places. Take me somewhere, then move me someplace else, then bring me back again. Repetitive riffs/lyrics that just pound, pound, pound, over and over again, bore me.
Don’t care much for the way rock music has trended since the 80’s. I can appreciate the technical aspect of the tapping thing, but the guitar tone took a huge hit to make that trend possible. It’s been digitized, pedal-ized, effect laden, saturated with some of the absolute worst sound I’ve ever heard, just so those guys can pull off those fancy pants licks. I can’t get past the tone, to really like what they do. It’s horrible. Yes, I’m the dreaded, Tube Amp Tone Snob! Shoot me.
Don’t get me started on rap. If guitar tone has been dumped in the shitter, and it has, the insidious digital noises rap uses, combined with an endless, repetitive, mono tonal, “beat,” absolutely drives me up the wall. I’m talking, if you want my bank codes, my children, the clothes on my back, or want everything thing in this world I may know, put me in a room with loud rap, and I’ll sign the paperwork in less than 5 minutes. I can’t get past the, “what passes for music,” to be able to even attempt to appreciate what they are saying. Maybe it’s got something going for it there, but I’ll never know. I’d be institutionalized, if I had to listen to that endless repetitive beat for very long. Nope, can’t do it. It ain’t worth the straight jacket. My health matters.
I love music. I have a musical brain. It loves music. It loves to listen, it loves to play. I’m a musical creature. But I certainly have limits to what I can appreciate, in music.
Probably just another old man yelling at clouds…
Evidence Based Reality 
We are so much alike that I think one of us is redundant. I have been splurging on rockumentaries on the various streaming services, one I enjoyed recently was on one of the streaming services called “Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary,” about a specific California soft rock sound. While I wasn’t a fan of many of the groups, I did enjoy the sounds of the time.
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Yacht rock gets a lot of dissing, from the more hard core rocker types. But I have to admit, there are some really good songs in the genre. Damn good.
Now, how do we find out which one of us is redundant?
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Coin flip? The question is “Do you feel lucky, punk? Do you?” (For extra credit name the movie and actor saying the line.)
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I don’t care for rap much either. At best it’s poetry with a beat, which can be pretty good. But the vast majority of it sounds more like just noise to me. I was classically trained in piano starting when I was five years old, and it took me a long time to sort of shift mental gears so to speak to get to the point where I finally realized that some rock and jazz was kind of good. My tastes have swung completely around and I now find a lot of classical music repetitive, dull, needlessly long winded. Of late I’ve been diving deep into early 20th century music.
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I’d have no problem calling rap art. Music it is not. Not to these ears. That’s being generous. I’d have no problem calling it unnecessary punishment either…
“Repetitive, dull, needlessly long winded.” This! Grinds my gears. There’s an old group BTO, I love ’em. But they made a bunch of songs ending by repeating the chorus to the point I have to skip the rest. I believe they did that to not have to use another song on the LP. (you can’t exactly skip it when playing an LP, but I can with digital versions in the car.) I can’t prove the suspicion though.
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i don’t think you can define music
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I know the definition of music is very broad. It can be many things. But I can define what I like, and that which irritates the shit out of me. At least I do not believe rap is the “work of the devil!” Which was par for the course concerning rock music when it became mainstream.
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decades ago a generation expressed the same dislike about jazz then blues then rock … now it is the turn of rap.
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Yes, I’m aware, hence the “old man yelling at clouds” remark. 😉
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