Music you love that everyone else seems to hate.

[Doclector]

Pretty simple. What dark secrets do you hold within your itunes library?

On one level, I'm a massive fan of the killers. This would be fine, but I generally hang around with metalheads. Honestly, I don't think they'd shun me or something, but I still don't generally disclose my appreciation for it.

But on another level, y'know miracle of sound AKA Gavin Dunne? That hugely popular genius musician making stuff based on videogames and movies over a diverse range of genres? Pretty much everything by him is universally loved, especially on this site, but I remember one song that pretty much everyone panned, namedly his prometheus song, "DNA".


And I fucking love it.

I don't just like it, I full on adore this song, maybe even one of my favourites by MoS. I can't quite fully explain why. It is obviously heavily inspired by the score of the movie, and say what you will about prometheus, but I thought the soundtrack was freakin' awesome.

Maybe it's because it essentially is the musical theme to a horror sub genre that I've come to love in particular: Body horror. In response to some criticism on the youtube upload, Gavin said this:

Well, that is fair because it's meant to make you feel uncomfortable in the second half, just like the movie itself. That entire section is meant to sound like someone being torn apart form the inside out so yeah, if it makes your ears cry in pain I did my job right heheh

And I guess thinking about it, I can totally see what he was doing here. It fits not just for prometheus, but for the fly, the thing, and many other sci fi body horror classics.

Oh, and you've gotta love that inception horn.

 

[Ishal]

I'm not a big fan of the term "guilty pleasure." I'm not guilty about the stuff I like. I found out the hard way that most people around me don't like metal. And that goes to all metal, funny enough. Doesn't have to be screaming, still "sux" and there is "no talent."

I feel I should put on some slacks and pull them up to my belly button and get a golf shirt, cuz I'm about to go old man here. But it's something else to see dubstep going through the same shit right now, "its just noise!!" and all that jazz. Metal did it, dubstep has to go through it too.

Other than that, I have a few pop songs here and there and some tween stuff from when I was in high school early years. Straight Fallout Boy-esque 16th and 18th note "tremolo" with high pitched vocals. I don't even really like the music, its just a nostalgia trip. I have a bunch of MLP music on there too, legit stuff from the show and fan made music.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I listen to a lot of videogame music, probably more than anything else. Nobody "hates" videogame music, but it's mostly just ignored or dismissed as going for cheap effect, as if it's meaningless if you're not playing the game or there's no video to accompany it. I like to think that *good* videogame music works on its own right. You want a soundtrack that forms part of a game's essence, but also captures it at the same time.

More on topic I like this one song everybody else seems to hate.

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

Well, I do happen to be a fan of a handful of NSBM bands. What does NSBM stand for? National Socialist black metal. So there could well be a reason for more people hating it if they can't get past the political themes to enjoy the music.

 

[Queen Michael]

I'm a Yanni fan, and I'm not at all ashamed to admit it.

 

[Jazoni89]

I don't have many guilty pleasures when it comes to music, because i personally feel that anyone should just like what they want to like, but I've always had a soft spot for the feminist Riot Grrrl scene of the mid-90's, and a lot of female fronted Rock/Indie/Punk bands that came around that time too. The Breeders, Throwing Muses, Sleater-Kinney, The Sundays, Babes in Toyland, and Verruca Salt, all come to mind, but I enjoy tons of them, so it's a huge list.

 

[TakerFoxx]

Despite thinking the subject matter of nearly all of their songs is hilariously atrocious, I genuinely enjoy the Hollywood Undead.

...yeah, okay, I'll see myself out.

 

[Weaver]

Well as someone who's been going to hardcore (as in happy hardcore) raves since high school I'm well versed in liking music everyone seems to hate

 

[The Wykydtron]

Putting the fact that I listen to video game music almost exclusively, I have quite a lot of cutesy girly anime music on my iTunes.


This is fucking brilliant and you know it. The full version goes on for four totally awesome minutes.

Also Skrillex. I "discovered" them this year. What were they like a 2009 thing? >.> I don't like much dubstep but they have some good ones.

 

[akai]

I love metal but for some reason, everyone around me seems to hate it. This sucks pretty bad since I don't have a single friend I can discuss my favorite music with. All my friends are into pop, house or hip-hop.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Putting the fact that I listen to video game music almost exclusively, I have quite a lot of cutesy girly anime music on my iTunes.


This is fucking brilliant and you know it. The full version goes on for four totally awesome minutes.

Also Skrillex. I "discovered" them this year. What were they like a 2009 thing? >.> I don't like much dubstep but they have some good ones.

Skrillex is one guy and he isn't dubstep

 

[DanielBrown]

Swedish trallpunk. It's quite rare to meet people who share my love for it. Melodic, often depressing punk. What's to dislike?!

 

[Kenbo Slice]

First all, this isn't a guilty pleasure as it happens to be my favorite genre. Well, on this site metalcore seems to get a lot of undeserved hate. Yes, quite a few metalcore bands suck, but doesn't that go with every genre of music? You can't write off metalcore based off of Asking Alexandria and Capture the Crown or some shit like that. Especially when you have great songs like this:
or this

 

[Caiphus]

Well, there's a large collection of people that don't like dubstep. I don't know if that's quite "everyone else" though.

Spoiler: Lololol

 

[The Wykydtron]

Putting the fact that I listen to video game music almost exclusively, I have quite a lot of cutesy girly anime music on my iTunes.


This is fucking brilliant and you know it. The full version goes on for four totally awesome minutes.

Also Skrillex. I "discovered" them this year. What were they like a 2009 thing? >.> I don't like much dubstep but they have some good ones.

Skrillex is one guy and he isn't dubstep

Ah, forgive me, I know fuck all about music or artists. I go by someone using a song in a funny video or what have you and I look it up and video game/anime music. I suppose Skrillex isn't your standard dubstep, what genre would it technically belong to then?

More on the cutesy anime front


Nichijou bitches! One of the funniest animes ever, just under Baka To Test which obviously takes the crown. The first episode alone is comedy genius.

 

[Ishal]

Well, I do happen to be a fan of a handful of NSBM bands. What does NSBM stand for? National Socialist black metal. So there could well be a reason for more people hating it if they can't get past the political themes to enjoy the music.

Is Watain considered that? I happen to like them quite a bit.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Putting the fact that I listen to video game music almost exclusively, I have quite a lot of cutesy girly anime music on my iTunes.


This is fucking brilliant and you know it. The full version goes on for four totally awesome minutes.

Also Skrillex. I "discovered" them this year. What were they like a 2009 thing? >.> I don't like much dubstep but they have some good ones.

Skrillex is one guy and he isn't dubstep

Ah, forgive me, I know fuck all about music or artists. I go by someone using a song in a funny video or what have you and I look it up and video game/anime music. I suppose Skrillex isn't your standard dubstep, what genre would it technically belong to then?

More on the cutesy anime front


Nichijou bitches! One of the funniest animes ever, just under Baka To Test which obviously takes the crown. The first episode alone is comedy genius.

Mmmmmm, most of his stuff's electro house, but it gets mislabelled as dubstep a lot.

 

[ComandaKool]

I listen to quite a lot of Eastern European music; an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZg820dASoo

And Another:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDy442iafbw

Most people I know don't enjoy it simply because it's in another language; but I just tell them music is universal.
Also I listen to a lot of video game ost as most of us do.

 

[Squilookle]

Skrillex isn't dubstep? Then what the hell IS dubstep? And don't 'explain' it with a video: I won't go near it.

For me, it's film music scores, and mashups. Can't get enough of them, especially when a film OST matches perfectly with a multiplayer game session I play at the same time, or a mashup brilliantly combines two completely different songs into one harmonious bubble.

Like this:


And this: