Auto-Tune also grates on me something awful, whether it is used as an effect or for its intended purpose, it just annoys me (I was shocked one day to hear my goddaughter replicating the Auto-Tune lilt while singing one of her favorite songs, it is amazing what the human voice is capable of).Ī favorite story I like to relate when asked about my musical preferences goes like this A friend of mine came to me and asked me for a selection of African Tribal Rhythms. It’s not that they are bad, but more that I am bored after the first refrain. I literally couldn’t name a Britney Spears tune or even dredge up the names of any of her contemporary (I fully realize that she has probably not been a thing for the last 20 years, but at my age that was yesterday, and it was the only name I could think of in that genre) ilk. But my real weakness is hardcore middle of the road Pop. Repetitive electronic percussion grates on me, it always has, it takes the life out of the music. A single EDM song can be pretty amazing, but after listening to an album or two I realize that every song is the same song performed slightly differently. My tolerance for Hip Hop and EDM is fairly limited. There are even select Rap songs that I like (Chumbawamba and Weird Al’s “Amish Paradise” come to mind). In the eighties, I would have described my musical tastes to include everything but Rap, Disco, and Italian Opera (I have always loved Wagner and Mozart, probably due to “Looney Tunes”), but have since developed an appreciation for Italian Opera (though I haven’t gone so far as to attend one or learn Italian so I could understand what all the wailing is about).

I could probably do a list of singers, since I believe most singers to be simply adequate to the music and rarely exceptional or noteworthy, but still, even limiting myself to rock music, excising all of the wonderful crooners of time past, not to mention Opera singers and Musical performers, it would be a ponderous list indeed. I later tried limiting myself to drummers but came up with a similar result. I once tried to make a list of my favorite musicians being incredibly annoyed by those “Top Ten” lists (Top Ten wouldn’t even cover my favorite classical composers), when I reached a hundred and had barely scratched the surface, I gave up. Historically I have always defined my musical tastes by what I don’t like, rather than by what I do like. Regular readers will have an idea about my musical tastes, but I thought I would codify it a little more closely in this first article in order to give a frame of reference. With the coming of the new year 2021, I decided it was time to switch up my monthly article with a monthly music review featuring new releases on Qobuz, since that is where I source a lot of the music for my reviews.

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