Least likely to be considered music:

[Isengrim]

and because i once went out with a girl who loved country and after i started hating her (but of course dragged out the relationship for as long as possible... im a giver you see) it was only natural to hate everything associated with her.

Isn't that a country song in itself

Needs to have the dog burning down and the house running away. I got that right, right?

Maybe when they broke up, she burned his house, stole his dog and left with his pick-up

Wait, this is modern Western...Which means that the dog stole his truck, ran over his wife, crashed into the house and set it on fire, and they all died in a deadly conflagration. He didn't find out about it until he came home from getting laid off from the, wait for it, truck factory I think I have a hit.

The old joke is, if you play a Country song backwards, his truck gets returned, his wife takes him back, and his dog comes home.

Gah.. we both forgot the gunrack

Maybe the dog stole the truck after one?

[fyrmin]

and because i once went out with a girl who loved country and after i started hating her (but of course dragged out the relationship for as long as possible... im a giver you see) it was only natural to hate everything associated with her.

Isn't that a country song in itself

Needs to have the dog burning down and the house running away. I got that right, right?

Maybe when they broke up, she burned his house, stole his dog and left with his pick-up

Wait, this is modern Western...Which means that the dog stole his truck, ran over his wife, crashed into the house and set it on fire, and they all died in a deadly conflagration. He didn't find out about it until he came home from getting laid off from the, wait for it, truck factory I think I have a hit.

The old joke is, if you play a Country song backwards, his truck gets returned, his wife takes him back, and his dog comes home.

Gah.. we both forgot the gunrack

Maybe the dog stole the truck after one?

i feel so used!

[Beautiful Emptiness]

I can tolerate Hip Hop to a point but Rap ....not really, except for that Eminem or Slim Shady guy because his lyrics are comical so I voted for Hip Hop/Rap.

*goes to head bang to some death metal smashing more brain cells, causing him to not know what Electronica is*

*quickly puts a brick in front of you so your forehead hits it and quickly runs off laughing* bwa hahahaha

[gutemensch]

and because i once went out with a girl who loved country and after i started hating her (but of course dragged out the relationship for as long as possible... im a giver you see) it was only natural to hate everything associated with her.

Isn't that a country song in itself

Needs to have the dog burning down and the house running away. I got that right, right?

Maybe when they broke up, she burned his house, stole his dog and left with his pick-up

Wait, this is modern Western...Which means that the dog stole his truck, ran over his wife, crashed into the house and set it on fire, and they all died in a deadly conflagration. He didn't find out about it until he came home from getting laid off from the, wait for it, truck factory I think I have a hit.

The old joke is, if you play a Country song backwards, his truck gets returned, his wife takes him back, and his dog comes home.

Gah.. we both forgot the gunrack

Maybe the dog stole the truck after one?

i feel so used!

Isn't that another country song too

[silverfields2]

I disagree with everything in this poll, because for almost every genre stated I can name examples that definitely earn the label "music" and examples that clearly prove that there's no music involved whatsoever

Yes...even with "Jazzzz". Has anyone ever tried to listen to modern free-jazz? No? That's not music...It's as little music as Stockhausen is, or hardcore techno, or 50 cents.

+1 I agree with Curois, but the ones I listen to the least are country, hip-hop and rap.

As an aside, where is the world music option?

[Tangleroot]

Have these guys who voted hip hop/rap ever listened to country?

And who doesn't like world music? I'll deathplane anyone who disses Natacha Atlas and Transglobal Underground.

[silverfields2]

And who doesn't like world music? I'll deathplane anyone who disses Natacha Atlas and Transglobal Underground.

*chuckles* I didn't say I didn't like it. I asked why wasn't it listed.

[Beautiful Emptiness]

Have these guys who voted hip hop/rap ever listened to country?

And who doesn't like world music? I'll deathplane anyone who disses Natacha Atlas and Transglobal Underground.

I've listened to country pooh before, it's not as bad as rap

Haven't really listened to world music much so I can't diss it yet ... wouldn't that one dudette Enya fall under that catagory?

[loki70]

and because i once went out with a girl who loved country and after i started hating her (but of course dragged out the relationship for as long as possible... im a giver you see) it was only natural to hate everything associated with her.

Isn't that a country song in itself

Needs to have the dog burning down and the house running away. I got that right, right?

Maybe when they broke up, she burned his house, stole his dog and left with his pick-up

Wait, this is modern Western...Which means that the dog stole his truck, ran over his wife, crashed into the house and set it on fire, and they all died in a deadly conflagration. He didn't find out about it until he came home from getting laid off from the, wait for it, truck factory I think I have a hit.

The old joke is, if you play a Country song backwards, his truck gets returned, his wife takes him back, and his dog comes home.

Gah.. we both forgot the gunrack

Maybe the dog stole the truck after one?

i feel so used!

Isn't that another country song too

Yep, I think I heard that one at the line dance. Could be wrong, there was a lot of Budweiser involved, and some guy was trying to make it with the electric bull, so.....*shrugs*

[Gh0zt]

You're right Hip Hop is NOT music its a lifestyle. Why do people in the mainstream keep listing it as music is beyond me. Rap is music however as no one made themselves god of song and declared that you actually have to sing to make music. Music is lyrics sometimes not over melodies and beats that people enjoy listenting to as far as I know. I figured that rap would get many votes for as much as I hate stereotyping most of the time when dealing with the internet rap gets a bad well...rap. I also listen to rock/metal/death metal a little pop and almost anything that I like. Will try anything once and have tried country more than once and still can't stand it. (some songs are exceptions however) Therefore I voted country although I agree this poll should have been which do you like the least rather than which would you not consider music because no one is truthful although they certainly have the right in the free world to define melodies with or without lyrics or singing rather as not being music when in all TECHNICALITIES (don't care if that is a word or not) Anything can be call music if people can nod their head or dance to it.

[Defender]

Electronica ad hip-hop/rap are not music. Music requires musical instruments, not a computer. Simple as that.

Country, while can be deemed music by many, maybe. But it is music without heart and soul none the less. Allow me to explain. Country is heartless and soulless for the shear fact that the 99.9% of the time, the person singing the song had nothing to do this the actual writing of that song, but instead bought the damn thing from someone who only writes. If the singer has no connection to the song, then how is it possible that they can honestly care about the meaning of it?

Metal, rock, blues, jazz, classical can all be deemed music because it normally does not voilate these simple principles.

Thanks,

[Snow]

Voted Rap/Hip Hop, the only things that I can't stand listening to no matter how much I try.

[Gh0zt]

Electronica ad hip-hop/rap are not music. Music requires musical instruments, not a computer. Simple as that.

Country, while can be deemed music by many, maybe. But it is music without heart and soul none the less. Allow me to explain. Country is heartless and soulless for the shear fact that the 99.9% of the time, the person singing the song had nothing to do this the actual writing of that song, but instead bought the damn thing from someone who only writes. If the singer has no connection to the song, then how is it possible that they can honestly care about the meaning of it?

Metal, rock, blues, jazz, classical can all be deemed music because it normally does not voilate these simple principles.

Thanks,

And thus is why I'm still asking myself why I didn't stay out of a music topic again. *sigh* I refuse to argue it. Anything that makes sound into a melody or beat or whatever is a musical instrument. The "oh my god its computerized" argument is bunk because while the beat and melody may be electronically made the person putting lyrics to the song aren't. This is my last entry on the subject as when it comes to music some people are just ignorant to anything else other than what they believe is right. The same thought process that creates extremist religion but that is another subject entirely.

[Aerill]

I voted electronica. If a computer can randomly pick 2000 1/8th of a second noises and stick it together and it is considered the peak of the form than it isn't music. All the other ones require human composition, electronica is just digital beeping and booping.

I enjoy some electronica/techno, buts the least like a form of music IMO.

Shows how much you know about how electronica is made. Computer in it's case is no more than any other tool or an instrument. It still takes human's imagination and talent to actually compose all the elements together and create music. Same way it is with digital art that many people seem to dismiss thinking that it's computer that creates the images, and that is very far from truth.

Myself I dislike rap and country most. I won't argue about how musically rich they are or not, I just personally find these genres too repetitive and boring.

As for the music I like.. I like a lot of different genres, but probably it is industrial that stands on top for the most variety that it seems to offer. Other than that you will find me listening to a lot of music ranging from metal to folk or electronica. There is good and bad stuff in every genre, and unfortunately the good things are usually not as easy to find.

[Tigg]

lol... calling one of those 'not music' is just a way of ragging on it... but, we all objectively understand that each of those choices really is a form of music.. right?

but *looks at the poll and sighs* guess I'm going to scrap that idea for the rapping bard...

[girlysprite]

I like rap and hiphop, but not the current style (gangsta). I love the stuff from the eighties, like rappers delight from sugarhill gang, or the message from Grandmaster flash. That stuff has a melody in it, and variety, and it doesnt have the hostile tone that gangsta rap has.

[Defender]

I like rap and hiphop, but not the current style (gangsta). I love the stuff from the eighties, like rappers delight from sugarhill gang, or the message from Grandmaster flash. That stuff has a melody in it, and variety, and it doesnt have the hostile tone that gangsta rap has.

You seem to have mispelled a word in your paragraoh incorrectly a couple times.. it is Gangster.

Just a clarification, no arguement intended.

[bolo]

There should have been a "none of the above" option, because it's all music to me.
Anybody who says country music has no soul must have never listened to Hank Williams,Willy Nelson,Johny Cash,Roy Orbison,etc..
Anybody who says hip hop is not music needs to listen to Outkast,Mary J. Blige,The Fugees, Lauryn Hill,etc..
All music has it's hacks, and people who sing songs written by others. Elvis is widely regarded as one of the greatest popular singers ever, and ( far as I know) all his stuff was written by others.

Having said that, my least favorite has to be Country, just because when I was a kid that's all my parents ever listened to, well that and they watched Lawrence Welk ( an' a one'a, an'a two'a.Start the bubble machine!)all the time. God, now why didn't you put polka music up there?

[Tigg]

I like rap and hiphop, but not the current style (gangsta). I love the stuff from the eighties, like rappers delight from sugarhill gang, or the message from Grandmaster flash. That stuff has a melody in it, and variety, and it doesnt have the hostile tone that gangsta rap has.

You seem to have mispelled a word in your paragraoh incorrectly a couple times.. it is Gangster.

Just a clarification, no arguement intended.

yes... please, Girlysprite... without proper spelling things could get very confusing for some of us

[Rain&Clouds]

You're right Hip Hop is NOT music its a lifestyle. Why do people in the mainstream keep listing it as music is beyond me. Rap is music however as no one made themselves god of song and declared that you actually have to sing to make music. Music is lyrics sometimes not over melodies and beats that people enjoy listenting to as far as I know.

I don't like rap music (well not especially) and I was never a big fan of the hip hop culture either, but I am GLAD you wrote that, and I hope everyone learns a little from it... but that's just my view on it

[Marleh]

Poetry read over the top of background music is not music in itself. It is poetry read over the top of background music.

"Rap" is therefore not music.

[Tigg]

Poetry read over the top of background music is not music in itself. It is poetry read over the top of background music.

"Rap" is therefore not music.

but... the words are purposely done in time to a certain rhythm in order to go with the music. thinking of the spoken part of rap, I'm not sure that something has to have a wider-ranging tonal melody to be considered music, or else drums would not be considered music, (but I'm pretty sure that they are.) or... how about, someone raps for most of the recording and breaks into song for a bit of it, like I've heard done before? then that part where they actually sing is 'music' but the rest is not? hmm..... anyways to me the rhythm of the words adds something to the underlying melody, and makes it into its own unique musical entity.

*waits for someone to break out the dictionary*

[Rain&Clouds]

Poetry read over the top of background music is not music in itself. It is poetry read over the top of background music.

"Rap" is therefore not music.

I disagree with you on that, but my quote was meant to make the distinction between rap and hip hop more clear... I only quoted the rest because I agree to it

[bolo]

Poetry read over the top of background music is not music in itself. It is poetry read over the top of background music.

"Rap" is therefore not music.

but... the words are purposely done in time to a certain rhythm in order to go with the music. thinking of the spoken part of rap, I'm not sure that something has to have a wider-ranging tonal melody to be considered music, or else drums would not be considered music, (but I'm pretty sure that they are.) or... how about, someone raps for most of the recording and breaks into song for a bit of it, like I've heard done before? then that part where they actually sing is 'music' but the rest is not? hmm..... anyways to me the rhythm of the words adds something to the underlying melody, and makes it into its own unique musical entity.

*waits for someone to break out the dictionary*

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Main Entry: mu·sic
Pronunciation: 'myü-zik
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English musik, from Old French musique, from Latin musica, from Greek mousikE any art presided over by the Muses, especially music, from feminine of mousikos of the Muses, from Mousa Muse
1 a : the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity b : vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony
2 a : an agreeable sound : EUPHONY <her voice was music to my ears> b : musical quality <the music of verse>
3 : a musical accompaniment <a play set to music>
4 : the score of a musical composition set down on paper
5 : a distinctive type or category of music <there is a music for everybody -- Eric Salzman>

[Marleh]

2 a : an agreeable sound : EUPHONY <her voice was music to my ears> b : musical quality <the music of verse>

I stand on this definition.