> This is about Iss' post right below mine.
> Most of you guys know that I favor rap over all of
> those other genres, but that doesn't mean that I
> don't think there are better ones out there.
> Here's my line of thinking:
> I have much respect for classical music, but
> I find it difficult to imagine liking. I think
> that the worst genre is country, and I thus have
> little to no respect for it, but I can easily
> imagine why it is so popular.
>
> Oh, on related topic, there is a lot of rap worth
> listening to, like those old school artists, my
> favorite being MC Hammer, Mixalot, and Run DMC.
> These artists actually make good music, like great
> freestyling and lyrics set to good beats. I like
> the modern ones, like Snoop, especially his first
> album (He's gone down the toilet ever since) and
> most west coast, and I also really like Notorious
> B.I.G. because his rhyming is so unpredictable,
> and it's amazing to think how he thought it up.
> And for plain flows I put in a little Redman
> and Method Man, AKA Johnny Blaze, AKA the
> Ticallion Stallion AKA the Iron Lung...
>
> Finchplucke

I almost had a hard time picking my worst, but didn't.... I'll explain why.

I couldn't pick pop. It's not my favorite, but I must admit to liking some of it, so that wasn't it.

I do like most rock.... not the hardest stuff, but I like a lot of it.

Alternative is cool too.

I like rap.... as long as I don't have to actually listen to all of the lyrics. I like the beats, mostly, I guess, and there are some songs I like... so I couldn't put that.

I must say that I like country. A year ago I would have said I hated it, but as Nyperold sais in his reply, that's because all I knew were the stereotypes. On my youth group's ski retreat last year, one of my roommates insisted on playing Country Music TV all weekend, and I fell in love with it. I don't get to listen as much as I'd like cause the only coutnry station in town isn't all that great, but when I get the chance, I do.

I adore classical music. That's all I have to say about that.

I don't LIKE opera, but I respect it a great deal. I respect that the people who sing it have amazing talent and have put a great deal of time into their training, so I can in no way say it's the worst.

I find showtunes fun - I often sing songs from musicals and stuff, just because.

Easy listening is kinda icky, but not horrible.

Other encompasses so much stuff.... R&B (which I dislike, but that's for psychological reasons, not musical ones) as well as my favorite, Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). So I couldn't pick that - it would be too arbitrary.

That left me with one genre, Goth, which I can easily say I abhor. The one time I've heard it, it was played by a band of teenage guys, one of whom was wearing a shirt with a confederate flag on it, and it had a lot of cursing and screaming and unhappy stuff. I really do like the good stuff in any style of music, except for goth.

uni"I forgot my point"peg