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Mostly just pop music for me. I don't think there are any pieces or songs of any other genre I wouldn't mind hearing often. But pop music to me is just SO monotonous, and between songs extremely homogenous. And it doesn't help that most pop stations play the same small selection of the latest releases over and over and over all day. :headwall:

I don't want to hear any music ever again. Ever.

This is what this topic is about - music that you don't want to hear again. Chances are that the sole fact of answering - and doing so honestly - will create a reaction, intended or not. I just explained a kind of music that I personally dislike, and of course I knew it would have its supporters as well. Now, to point out more precisely... 1) The "intellectual snobbery" has been actually a prevailing attitude among modernists since the 1920s at least: they thought of themselves as a small vanguard leading the way, and that their arts needed to be only accessible to a select cadre of the enlightened. This way of thinking was exemplified by the early Aaron Copland (who later changed his mind) and the early Boulez (who didn't entirely). 2) Boulez's works on 'total serialism'. Ligeti himself described them as 'akin to compulsion neurosis'. And I tend to agree with him - I've been left with a positively stormy headache after every of the few times I've listened to them. 3) As for Cage's works... Come on, what did he actually compose? I think of 4'33"... (where's the composition? Any 4'33" can be classed (and copyrighted!) as a Cage work?)... And the 0'00" of "performing any disciplined action"... (that means I'm performing it by writing this sentence). Call that a philosophical statement or whatever, but not 'composing'. 'Musicircus' is fine as a joke, but can one take it seriously? Same goes for Boulez's aleatoric experiments, although at least he attempted to control some aspects. 4) As for 'rules' (I prefer to call them 'guidelines'), they are great as exercises to assimilate a particular style. But I expect to develop my own voice, whether I embrace the sonata form or the 12-tone technique (or both!)... This pretty much sums up my views. Of course nobody's bounded by them - this are just my views :) ...

I don't want to hear you talking about not wanting to hear things again. And I like Yanni. Deal with it. You have to admit, this is pretty awesome: