Ditto. I don't exactly like his music or the fact that when you play the radio edit 2 mins of the song magically disappear to be replaced with bleeps or blank passages but I think some of his lyrics identify real life problems, and some of what he says in lyrics, are exactly what the majority of people secretly agree with, but are too scared to say publically.

I don't like Opera, Country and Western or this tuneless commercial R'n'B, where as long as you rattle lots of Jewellery, wear a large golden dog turd around your neck and sing about what a nasty bloke your boyfriend is, means that you are automatically assured of a hit

If someone asked for some Run DMC, I'd be able to offer "Walk this way" and (seasonally) "Christmas in Hollis", and that "It's like that" which they shared with Jason(?) whatshisname, and I might have a 2pac track on a compilation somewhere.

I do have "House of Pain: Jump around" but it tends to only get aired if musically similar requests have proved popular to the floor.

However, as mentioned above, the most popular request that I've had from clients regarding rap, is: "Dont play any".

2004 saw me swatting up on Country & Western/New country tunes in order to play an entire gig of those tunes, however, I would turn down a gig if I knew beforehand that it was entirely going to be rapping and/or hip-hop. Both genres strike me as having more than their far percentage of songs which try to incite you with negative emotions eg: I'm angry about how tough the world is for me and my mates, and I want you to feel angry too . It doesn't make me feel angry, it makes me feel for the "Eject" button.

Totally agree with you CS - annoying lyrics are certainly not limited to any one particular genre - and definately not any particular group.

There have been several songs, well perhaps "Tracks" might be a better term, over the last couple of years which have been potentially annoying simply by their repeated use of the same lyrics - almost as if the artist/producer couldnt be bothered to include a second verse, or clean up a longer sample off of some old track, so just kept repeating a short part.

Some examples which spring to mind are the otherwise talented Destiny's child for their release "Lose my breath"; Kelis's "Milkshake", the Eric Prydz (nasty bassline discussed elsewhere) "Call on me" track,etc,etc....all tracks where, once you've heard the first 20 seconds of vocals, you've heard the entire lyrical content of the track...

Anyway...poll wise, we seem to have two fairly distinct "winners" or possibly "losers" in terms of Genre, with Heavy Metal and Rap both getting most "hate" votes.

It can be easy for emotive, or provocative topics which ask "what do you hate?", to drift off-topic, as someone votes, or comments on someone elses favourite, but I think that we've managed to avoid any particular flare-ups thus far...(famous last words ).

Ultimately, as Eskie mentioned in the first post on this thread, we as mobile DJ's are more open-minded toward what types of music we carry (we really have to carry a "bit of everything") than say, a club DJ might be. You never know when the spotty little 13 year old, with the Eminem T-shirt and bleached crew cut is going to ask you to play some Neil Diamond, Fatback Band, Earth Wind & Fire, or Odyssey...

That was a great quote from a GREAT film

There is some fantastic jazz around and there are so many offshoots of Jazz: Fusion, Latin, Trad, Acid-jazz
I don't mind Classical at all, some of it is very relaxing at the right moment.
Trance bores me to death, it's just SOOOOOOO monotonous
House is often good, but Funky House is wicked
Very much agree with your statement that R&B is misunderstood. I reckon that most of the 'R&B' tracks that people hate/dislike are probably not R&B at all and most of them are probably Pop (Christina, Britney, J-Lo) or Rap (Ja Rule, Dizzy Rascal, Jay-Z).
I'm puzzled by the frequent distinction between Rap & Hip-Hop and would love to know how people define Rap & then define Hip-Hop
I dislike most gangsta rap but love stuff like A Tribe Called Quest, Outkast, Guru, Digital Underground.
To me there is a clear distinction between Rock & Heavy Metal. Rock usually has understandable lyrics and talented musicians such as Guns N Roses & Led Zeppelin but Heavy Metal is just screaming, noise, loads of feedback, distortion and completely unintelligable lyrics
Some D&B is fantastic, some is absolutely dire.

On all genres, here is my opinion

Jazz - generally good, can become a touch repetetive
Trance - to much like humming underwater/wasp buzzing in your face. People dance to it like there is a wasp in front of their face as well.
House - a cross between humming underwater and terrible "vocals" if at all existent.
R&B - older stuff is good (Marvin Gaye etc), some of the newer stuff is good as well - very dancey and catchy. A lot of it is bland in my opinion though
Hip Hop - some songs are catchy, an in betweeny genre of R&B and Rap though
Rap - Eminem and a lot of newer Hip hop. It's pretty empty imo. Talks of living in the "ghetto" and so on and encourages violence. Admittedly not all do but the vast majority I hear is.
D&B - again very repetetive, but I agree, the latin stuff can be rather good
Heavy metal - there are great rock tunes about but, theres rock and there's heavy metal. I dont particularly know much about the Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin and the like, but from what I gather, they actually made music as opposed to this new-found craze of screaming/wailing/screeching down a microphone to a background of seemingly unco-ordinated instruments quickly followed by the showmanship of being sick on stage purposely and hitting each other. It seems the followers of this music are only interested in causing grief, damage and harm to other people and/or their belongings. I vehemently oppose people of this calibre as I said before as not only is the music undeniably bad (personal opinion ) but the what "sub-culture" which it stands for is twice as bad.

Anyway, that's a younger person's view of music (although, I consider myself to be different from todays youth in terms of taste in (current) music anyway!). I hope I haven't offended anyone - particularly in the last section!

couldn’t agree more with you Speedy, Drum & Bass is just as bad.
We were doing a regular slot in a pub for a while & one of the bar staff kept asking for Drum & Bass, I had a look on the web & managed to download the top ten D&B at that time. Just to hear what it was all about you know what I mean
(they all sounded the same, all with the same 10second loop)
so they were all deleted & our money stayed in our pockets (We wouldn’t give this room in the van if we were given them for free)

This sounds like an ignorant & uninformed view based entirely on something read in a tabloid Sunday paper. For starters I think it would come as a shock to John Lydon to find out that he used to sing in a Heavy Metal band. From your description I would say you're describing Slipknot, who are the exception rather than the rule & anyway they only do what they do on stage to cause controversy & therefore gain publicity (any publicity is good publicity remember). Small minded tabloid journalists can't resist & take the bait.

I read a while back (in Q if memory serves, so they at least can't be accused of being biased, covering virtually all types of music like they do) that Rock/Metal gigs had some of the least amounts of trouble/violence at gigs as opposed to Rap & R&B which were both among the highest.

Extreme Metal will always sound like a racket to people who don't like it (& for that matter most people who like other sub genres of HM), but then again can't this be said of other genres such as Trad Jazz & Drum & Bass or Jungle which all sound very much like a series of random noises to me.

Seems like you're tarring all Rock/Metal with the same brush so to speak. For example I could say all Rap/R&B/Hip Hop is mysogonistic, biggoted. violent & druggy judging by some of the lyrics I've heard, but I know this not to be true. It's always the most controversial that will get the attention often eclipsing the most talented as a result.