Friday, April 14, 2006

Music I hate: Broadway musicals: If someday when I die, I wake up and find that I'm not dead after all, and somewhere someone is singing "Climb every Mountain"--then I'll know I'm in Hell. Mexican and Irish folk music: It's a toss-up which of those two nationalities is the more unmusical, or has the worse sense of pitch or rhythm. Blues: Pathos without dignity, obscene and abject, concerning the sexual frustration of a Black man with a woman who is not his mother, whom he calls 'momma,' or of a Black woman (even nastier, but usually better humored) wanting 'sugar' (semen) in her 'bowl' ('hole,' vagina); precious, ignorant, self-congratulatory blather about 'blues notes' (false relations). Hip Hop. Rap. Rachmaninoff. All 19th century ballet music except Tchaikovsky. 50's pop tunes: 'April Love,' 'How much is that Doggie in the Window,' etc. Bagpipes. Grunge. Heavy Metal. Lizst. Meyerbeer. Verdi before Falstaff. Ponchielli. Punk. Von Suppe'. Von Weber. Glass. Bernstein. Chopin's orchestral music. Country Western. Hillbilly fiddle-playing. Vatican II tunes. 'Fiddler on the Roof': deserves its own special category of smarmy, cutesy, ethnic loathsomeness.

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