[jsm71]

Records in box sets tend to get ignored pretty regularly.  I have the full Beethoven set with something like 15 volumes and 60 records in total.  There are lots of virgin LPs in this set.  I'm not into opera so those as a group have gone begging for example.  OTOH, quite a few in the set, like the symphonies, have been played extensively.

[decal]

The Cars, Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen. I agree with Laura on Hip Hop (totally sucks to me) If I spent a little more time I'm sure I could think of others

My sentiments exactly P-man.   I'll add Rush,Boston, Queen and anything considered smooth Jazz to my list. Let the haters speak !!!!!!!

[watercourse]

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Anything and everything by Eric Clapton

as you can see, white "blues" don't do it for me, except for SRV

[NIGHTFALL1970]

I can't stand rap, hip hop or grunge. I don't like anything by R.E.M. or any of that "college" station crap!

[Eric Strasen]

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Anything and everything by Eric Clapton

as you can see, white "blues" don't do it for me, except for SRV

Thought I'd throw this up just to irritate Watercourse. Can't get much whiter than Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass.

[watercourse]

Quick, where's the bathroom? Lol

[neobop]

This is a particularly nasty thread.   

The Miles Davis/Gil Evans collaborations of the late 1950's and early 1960's were musically fantastic. Unfortunately, they were recorded and pressed by Columbia. I bought all the LP's, figuring I could enjoy the music and try to ignore the rotten recording/pressing. With increasing age (both myself and the records) it has become a difficult listen. Some years back I bought a CD of "Porgy and Bess", also released by Columbia. The clicks, pops and general background noise were gone, thus highlighting the poor recording job. Guess the old saying still applies:  "You can't polish a turd."

I guess that's what you get when you go dumpster diving, as you said in Recently Listened To - rejects and trash.

6 eye Columbia pressings are highly sought after and sound great.  I guess all those collectors are crazy and you know what you're talking about, which has nothing to do with crappy digital transfers from the '80s.

Guess the old saying still applies:  "You get what you pay for."

neo

[rockadanny]

Too many specific records, so I'll list generalities instead: rap; hip-hop; avant-garde jazz (including any track which has more than two honks/squeals); Vegas-style performers (Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, etc.); hippy-dippy San Fran flower-power "rock"; nonmelodic classical; recent teenybopper/college-age "alternative rock"; pop country; tracks with extremely lame lyrics including "la la la la la ..."; most all tracks with whistling; screechy hyper-compressed tracks; tracks with heavy political lyrics; historically significant but musically uninteresting records.

[CactusBob]

Hopefully I'll never hear an entire Styx, REO, ELO and Boston lp the rest of my life. Not that I have.

[rajacat]

Too many specific records, so I'll list generalities instead: rap; hip-hop; avant-garde jazz (including any track which has more than two honks/squeals); Vegas-style performers (Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, etc.); hippy-dippy San Fran flower-power "rock"; nonmelodic classical; recent teenybopper/college-age "alternative rock"; pop country; tracks with extremely lame lyrics including "la la la la la ..."; most all tracks with whistling; screechy hyper-compressed tracks; tracks with heavy political lyrics; historically significant but musically uninteresting records.

There must be a few records you like?

I agree with neobop above. This is a very nasty thread almost calculated to offend everyone in some way.

[Eric Strasen]

This is a particularly nasty thread.   

I guess that's what you get when you go dumpster diving, as you said in Recently Listened To - rejects and trash.

6 eye Columbia pressings are highly sought after and sound great.  I guess all those collectors are crazy and you know what you're talking about, which has nothing to do with crappy digital transfers from the '80s.

Guess the old saying still applies:  "You get what you pay for."

neo

Just relating my Columbia experiences. Bought all the Evans/Davis collaborations new at established record stores, and each one had problems. And have you ever heard what Columbia did to George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra?
Glad to see you are fighting back, however. Was hoping to see some controversy when I started this thread. I am not a fan of political correctness.   

[decal]

There must be a few records you like?

I agree with neobop above. This is a very nasty thread almost calculated to offend everyone in some way.

If one is offended by reading someone else's opinion, maybe an internet forum is not a place for them to be.

[rockadanny]

avant-garde jazz (including any track which has more than two honks/squeals)

I wish to rescind this remark. While there is a lot of avant-garde jazz I wish to never hear, I must admit that I do like some. Even the ones which contain more than two honks/squeals in a track. Such as ones recorded by Coltrane (e.g., Complete 1961 Village Vanguard), Miles (Bitches Brew and after), Pharaoh Sanders, Jackie McLean, and perhaps a few more. Although it took me a very looooong time to begin to appreciate some of these recordings.

So yes Rajcat, I do like a few records (well over 1,000 CDs) ...  

[Eric Strasen]

Lawrence Welk. Need I say more?

[Eric Strasen]

Australian pressing of Big Ben Hawaiian Band. Apparently, you can buy albums with nekkid ladies on the cover Down Under.

[Eric Strasen]

There is no accounting for musical poor taste, including my own. I bought the original (mono) release of Martin Denny's LP in 1959. Some years later it was re-recorded in stereo. "Quiet Village" features fake Polynesian music which is pretty much overpowered by a lot of screeching birds, including some absurd duck calls on one cut. I pitched my LP years ago. Maybe I missed the whole point of this effort, however. Perhaps it was meant to be satyrical.
The picture of the cover was copped from the net.