How would define "bad music"?

[bassliner50]

Duke Ellington once said there were really only two kinds of music; good and bad. I do agree with that statement although musical appreciation and musical tastes are highly subjective and vairy tremendously.
Of course, I do know which music I like and which music I adore. Oftentimes my favorite genres (without getting into particulars) are overlooked, under appreciated, not understood by folks who listen on the "surface only".
Then again music which is insanely popular, I am sometimes not drawn to. (over the top, intellectually lacking, formulaic etc.) My reasons for catagorizing music as simply "bad" are very personal.
What is "bad" music to you?

 

[Killing Floor]

“Good Morning, Good Morning”

 

[bholder]

I got a link in my siggy full of the bad kind.

 

[r_bnks]

There is no bad music, just bad listener.
(Past a certain level of course)

 

[5StringBlues]

 

[Smith357]

Good is music I like, Bad is music I don't understand.

 

[bassboysam]

there's no good and bad, there's stuff you like and stuff you don't.

 

[J Wilson]

I want to hear a little sweat going into it, the sense it's a real performance, a musical moment of some kind happening, even if it's not something I care for or like at all. I want to hear an honest performance. I want to hear a viewpoint, an opinion, and . . . 'make it snappy'. I want to listen to something and as it hits the final chord or the fade out fades away, I want to realize that I wasn't here for the last several minutes, listening to that took me somewhere else. I often note that sudden missing a few minutes feeling means I REALLY liked it, was really moved.

I get real bored real quick with computers, loops, samples, vocoders, and all the perfectly tuned stuff that's been digitally mastered into atomic-clock- perfect time and perfectly tuned vocals and harmonies . . . that really don't bear much resemblance to what I referenced above.

I want music computers and digital workstations CAN'T make.

 

[Maestro29]

Cardi B

 

[Smooth_bass88]

Nice!! I've played bass in a Bon Jovi tribute band before. I think they are GOOD! Excellent bass work by Hugh McDonald

 

[Katoosie]

I want to hear a little sweat going into it, the sense it's a real performance, a musical moment of some kind happening, even if it's not something I care for or like at all. I want to hear an honest performance. I want to hear a viewpoint, an opinion, and . . . 'make it snappy'. I want to listen to something and as it hits the final chord or the fade out fades away, I want to realize that I wasn't here for the last several minutes, listening to that took me somewhere else. I often note that sudden missing a few minutes feeling means I REALLY liked it, was really moved.

I get real bored real quick with computers, loops, samples, vocoders, and all the perfectly tuned stuff that's been digitally mastered into atomic-clock- perfect time and perfectly tuned vocals and harmonies . . . that really don't bear much resemblance to what I referenced above.

I want music computers and digital workstations CAN'T make.

I wholly disagree with your statement.

I am the type of person who listens to a lot of real time performed music. Metal of various kinds mostly. You know, the type where the people playing it are murdering it to a crazy tempo. Blood and sweat. Or the stuff where they hire an entire orchestra to play together with them. And a choir.

You know what music made me cry and still makes my stomach churn and the tears flow every time I hear it?

Some ambient, sampled synth nonsense or whatever the hell it even is. A very specific track from a video game.

Music is complex. So are we.

 

[5StringBlues]

“Good Morning, Good Morning”

Das Beatlestieners?

 

[funkinbottom]

Music being as subjective as it is, I guess you could say there is no such thing as bad music, there is just some I like a whole lot better than other.

 

[mrjim123]

Anything by Bad Company, Badfinger, Bad English ... whom have I missed?

 

[Micha84]

There is no bad music. There is uninventive, emotionless, repetitive etc, but objectively bad? I'd argue that if a song is liked by someone then it cannot be bad. But I'd also say that being liked isn't a necessity for a piece of music to be called good, so... There really isn't any bad music, at least not objectively.

It always bugs me when musicians call a piece of music bad because it isn't to their liking. We forget that just because we can analyze something doesn't mean that our opinion becomes fact.

 

[Pet Sounds]

For me, bad music sounds like it was written by the corporate marketing department and performed by robots.

 

[Pet Sounds]

For me, bad music sounds like it was written by the corporate marketing department and performed by robots.

And there will only be more of this with the advent of AI.

 

[brianrost]

 

[Spidey2112]

The stuff I listen to once, and never return to... especially, in the car. Anymore, my station select gets a workout.

But, that's just me... doesn't mean it's bad for everyone else.

 

[bucephylus]

I have yet to consider a single piece of computer generated music, such as used in much of the RAP world, to be good.

Computers may be a good way to avoid paying musicians; but they are not good at making music.