> > What I really hate is the new-age, so-called easy listening "music" that is really just some whale songs with a beat or the sound of a river with some panpipes.
> > They've ruined what are both beautiful sounds by combining them in an unsympathetic way. It's like beethoven interrupted by a lawnmower.
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> > lada(I voted for easy listening but I really meant that new age stuff)dada

What I abhor in that type of music is "New Age Electronic" (or Synthetic). It's the same deal -- take what normally would be Nature sounds, then hop them up in a synthesizer. Like J-M Jarré's famous "Oxygène IV"... It makes some people feel like they're about to have a plumbing problem. So instead of feeling relaxed and calmed and entranced, you sit there with your teeth totally grating on edge at what the artist has done to windsong and raindrops and birdsong.

Of course, then there's always Muzak...


> I must confess to not voting in this poll. If you're talking about music(i.e. the arrangement of various MHzs, dbs, & timbre, then I don't have a worst; any genre can be poorly done or well done; poorly mixed or well mixed. If you add the words, I still don't have a worst; any message, good, bad, neither, or none, can be put to any genre.
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> Nyperold

I didn't find the two categories that I would have voted for: derivative Grunge and badly-done Ska. Grunge, because the guys playing often don't even try learning how to play their instruments. Ska, because sometimes the overwrought multi-phonics and multiple tempos and multi-vocals are a chaotic excuse for noise in disguise. *sigh*