What Are Your Musical Turn-Offs? 

- bands with barely any original members in them. Change the band name. - public feuds with band members. Keep that stuff behind closed doors. - bands that change their sound so much to the point they sound like a totally different band. Call the band something else. - bands who do “farewell tours” then get back together a few years later. - older bands who just tour and tour non stop and don’t put out any new music or a new album.

Hmm... This was a good discussion. Some of mine: - Reissues without extras. Or too many reissues of the same product. - bands playing with symphonies. I have yet to hear one that actually works. - bands that add reworked versions of their own classic songs to help sell their new album. - The two that pissed me off the most was ZZ Top having rerecorded drum tracks on their Six Pack collection and Ozzy releasing his first two albums with Lee Kerslake replaced on drums. - CD compilations that have great songs, but not some or all are lame re-recordings. - Lame CD inserts. Either the inside fold is blank, or it is just a single two-sided card with a stripped-down layout. - Full disclosure on lineups for live shows. I don't care if Foreigner wants to continue, but I want to know if the members I care about are there or not. Also, Quiet Riot? Still together? C'mon! I feel a lot of this happens with bands who are faceless or semi-faceless. Kansas just recently came through. That's a band I would consider seeing, but I would need to check who is in the lineup.

Turn off is band firing members and diss on each other in the media. Skid row, Queensrÿche, and others just to name a few. I don't like to be filled with Ego drama. I love the music they created but the media about so and so did this and that is a real turn off.

Have to disagree with you about The Darkness, not a parody band. It's just them being themselves as far as I can see and hear. At least they don't give themselves aliases like the guys in Steel Panther.

Great discussion guys! Turn off is a band that drops multiple live releases of the same material time after time with maybe a new song....just put out a new release!

There are certainly genres and sounds that have very low odds of being something I would like, but the only thing that's a 'hard no' where I won't even give it a try anymore is the black metal vocal style. I never want to hear someone shriek again. I don't find it pleasant, or even musical, and being able to avoid every band that does it is why I'm a fan of genre labels.

I can’t stand when a song has six different co-writers. I see it a lot on todays current pop songs. Did they each write one line each??? Ridiculous

I am going to change subject. I'd like to say thank you Brendon for turning me on to Copperhead. Just got my CD by them today and I really like them a lot. I also came across a band called Stone Whisky, which I really like as well. But I am guessing you've already heard of them. P.S. Never judge a book by it's cover. =) Thanks again!

I love that drop D tuning for that style of music. It really is fascinating how we can listen to the exact same thing and take two completely different opinions on it. With that being said I don want my Crue to sound like Crue , not a nu metal version.

I love that self titled Mötley Crüe album and Hooligan's Holiday. Most of these I totally agree with!

My biggest turn-off: Def Leppard after Pyromania...

You know…at 65 it’s hard to get excited about new music. We have heard it all before! So for Sebastian Bach to put out an album and expect me to buy it! Good luck! Guess what? I bought it. And…I like it. I don’t have to love it. It’s just good rock n roll…that’s all I want.

You know that album cover on that Sebastian Bach album is a picture I think his dad started painting and he had it finished for that album cover...

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I enjoy Ghost even with the Face paint and the rest of the band in Mask, yes it’s a gimmick but it works no one else is doing it like them.

Very interesting video. My biggest musical turm-offs are mainly connected to certain kinds of metal: I hate growling vocals, double bass pedals and excessive guitar vibrato in extreme metal. I also dislike guitar shredders and dramatic vocals in power metal, and the fact that practically every metal song has to have a guitar solo. Just like you, I also dislike the nü metal sound.

It really depends on what you are talking about. For me, as an “old school” music fan, I hate when artists use Auto-tune. If you can’t sing try something else!!!!

My biggest problem with much of the modern releases is when they have the vocal tracks far too loud in the mix. I like Smashing Pumpkins, but listen to one of the first 3 albums and compare with anything from the last couple decades. Same for many new bands, over processed vocals that take over the song and distract from the music. Someone once said this is a byproduct of the infamous "loudness wars". It ruins the music and doesn't allow the actual instruments to breathe. Great video guys!

The Darkness are in no way a parody band. They are a throwback who write incredible riffs blending the styles of Queen with ACDC and a bit of Thin Lizzy. They have a retro Glam look which turns some people off. Can't lump them in with Steel Panther- ever. Check out Japanese Prisoner of Love or Black Shuck to name just two.

Fun topic! 😀👍. I do not have many musical turnoffs that immediately come to mind. With some of the music that I do not enjoy, I have to face the fact that I am not the target market. That is true from Nu-Metal to the disposable Pop Music today. Rock Always! - Heather

Great topic! Your thoughts about if Bon if he’d still alive… perhaps we would be talking about highway to hell and not back in black… never thought of that. Very cool ! Best thought in the day ☝️💪

When bands don't print the lyrics in the booklet. The only bands who don't want you to sing along are those with godawful lyrics. Also, bands that print their lyrics with a tiny font, in an inscrutable script, or in black lettering on a slightly less-black background.

Rock stars and thier hats !! We talked about this a few weeks ago !!! It had to happen !!! Brilliant 😂

I do agree with disliking the nu metal sound, never been into it. As someone else said , bands with no original members are really not the same band to me While I can't say I love Sebastian 's new album cover , I don't think its bad, I've seen worse.

New Crue single stinx

One more thing... this isn't a problem anymore, but I hated when CDs came with that little cellophane tab that kept it closed. You could never peel that whole thing off without leaving remnants and residue.

Thanks for the laugh after a yucky day! My pet peeve is get-ups, or gimmicks as you guys called them, but more so in terms of costumes or make-up. Kiss is an exception for some bloody reason 🤷🏾‍♀️ I also listen to a lot of rap, but what I can't stand about some of the newer stuff is the mumbling 🙉 Not a big fan of "whiny vocals" either. No example springs to mind, though.

- Rock/metal band meets orchestra. - Remix albums - The "singing through a phone" effect (ruins Tool's Aenima for me) - All covers albuns - Random "experimental" techno tracks - Skits - Re-recorded albums

Deluxe editions, sometimes the album sounds like the proper last song is the last song on the standard edition. Bonus tracks sound like they don’t belong on the album.

For me it's when an artist changes their style of music, image and even name completely from what they originally did. Perfect example for me is Ke$ha. I loved her first few albums where she did fun dance songs. Then she released an album under Kesha and got rid of the dollar sign in her name and that album just didn't do it for me. I didn't like it at all. So I never bought it for the collection and haven't really given her newer music a chance since.

Learning to play guitar in the late 90’s/early 2000’s when Nu metal was popular, it was difficult learning songs by bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit, System of a Down, etc. because a lot of them played down tuned 7 string guitars, down tuned even more than just drop D tuning so it became such a hassle to figure out the tuning only to want to then switch gears and play something in standard tuning. Then you gotta spend time getting your instrument changed back again.

Music on-the-grid Auto-tune Drum machines...especially when the artist has access to some of the great drummers out there.

The tragic irony of Motley Crue is that they keep making albums full of experimental crap rather than what they are loved for. I'm 49 and have been a Crue fan since 87, I want to hear Girls×3, not Mudvayne. I suspect that a Crue that went back to their roots would be much more popular than the one we have now.

My musical turn-off: - The 7th string riff sound.. it bores me to death with a few exceptions.. - Bands that sound too similar to another one.. in other words: lack of originality .. example: greta van fleet - In some cases... the hype.. When a band is getting too much attention.. - The remakes or the 2.0 ..like pantera, kerry king with his "solo?" project.

Say no to 'Hair Metal Lite' and 'KISS'. p.s. from UK.

Guess Eddie sings from the heart like he always did...I don't have kids but I understand ....the hat? I don't care ...why not?...he's still cooler than many dudes in my eyes...young or not ...he got love and money...but the guy still needs to work hard and perform like yesterday... and the album is really strong...top to bottom...and live they still deliver ...

My musical turn offs are some of the same ones you listed: constant double kick drums, "blackened" screams and cookie-monster low metal vocals, nu metal, and any misogyny or being-a-dick attitudes. They all seem like cover-ups to me for bands that can't play or sing well or write creative songs without putting others down.

Improvisational Jazz (sounds like 5 people playing different songs simultaneously), screechy metal/thrash, modern "noise music", most rap since 2015, most modern country music (truck, truck, beer, girl, america america.)

Evh did drop tuning a lot. That’s why his guitars have the detuna on them

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Im ok with drop d tuning but i dont like nu metal at all . I am guilty of liking some slipknot tunes but i generally stay away from the processed digital guitar tones . Good video dudes 👍

My love of music starts with "Do I love the VOCALS?" My instant turn-off is if your vocalist sounds like a 12-year old boy: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Shawn Mendes, blink-182, Sum 41... can't stand it. That's not to be confused with The Beach Boys and Slaughter, who sing in falsetto, and sound wonderful (to my ears). But who can explain why I love Dave Mustaine, but can't get into James Labrie. Or why I love Jani Lane, but can't get into Steve Perry. Love Axl Rose, don't like L.A. Guns.

I can't stand when albums are selling over $100 each, and they won't do a new pressing for the obvious huge fanbase of the rare vinyl.

OMG everybody hates Eddie Vedder's hat. LOL this is on every PJ social media thread. Yeah i guess he looks like he's just came back from 'mining for gold' up in the rocky mountains. I'd like to also say when Eddie dances on stage, during this current tour, he looks like a drunk dad dancing at his daughters wedding reception.

When people say there is no good music anymore because I think the new album by the band The Ghost Inside is great

1) When you're flipping through the various artists section and you find a compilation that's like "Tribute to Radiohead" or "Tribute to Metallica" and it's filled with a bunch of bands you've never heard of trying to plunk their way through songs that were already perfect. The audacity. If you're gonna "Tribute" to something, you have to at least be on the level of the band you're gonna tribute. 2) Songs that start off with a sick, amazing, badass metal riff and you're jamming out because holy shit, this song's about to RIP... then the vocals start and they're like this melodic, vibrato-filled garbage. I cannot shut the music off fast enough.

Roxette, Black Sabbath, Dixieland

downtuned guitars can sound bad or good depending on the writing/production/performance/tone. i wouldn't paint every downtuned guitar with the same brush.

but black sabbath used the Drop D tuning.

My name is Braden and people call me Brandon all the time as well!! I thought I was the only one. I’m like come on it’s not even spelled the same!

10:27 there are more than just Van Halen... Iron Maiden got BETTER with their second singer, Bruce Dickinson - so did Faith No More with Mike Patton, Journey with Steve Perry, NIghtwish with Floor Jansen, Fleetwood Mac, and commercially so did Genesis and Pink Floyd... Black Sabbath was still great with Dio

Start the day with the dynamic duo! Comedy gold! "where's my hairline!?" 😅

I need more double bass

First then second Spread Eagle cd

nothing makes me lose the mood than cookie monster vocals. it doesn't sound unique at all.

My musical turn offs: - balding gay men talking about hair metal all of the damn time. - poser pop bands like Guns N’ Roses, poison, 1987 def leopard, and Motley Crue.

I mean I don't have many at all. ONE kind of is remaking a HIT of your own, hate this, Jovi did it with Livin on a prayer 94, Chicago did it with 25 or 6 to 4 on Chicago 18 even they said it was the worst thing ever, and the Police did it with "DOnt stand so close to me 86" and others have done this too, I don't consider this like an unplugged or something cause some do this, this three in particular two were released as singles and Jovi tacked it on to a hits compilation. Band feuds were mentioned, I feel the same way, though not a big KISS fan at all, their drama annoys me, but two bands I am a fan of one being STYX I love what they are doing BUT every known and then I still see interviews with Tommy and JY and they are blaming Dennis for stuff still 25 years since he was kicked out. As much as I love the new styx stuff I get annoyed when I hear them bad mouth songs like a Mr Roboto and then you add the song to your setlist, it makes them look like hypocrites. Another band is Journey way too much drama in this band, I lose track at what annoys Neal Schon this week, now he's annoyed that Steve covered a song and its a song you cant even hear Steves voice on, then the stuff with politics in the band, Neal and Cain just both get over it and break up or do shows, no one needs to know who you vote for, I respect bands and artists for their stances but when people pay for a ticket they paid to see Journey or whomever they didnt come to a political rally. Also thank you for saying that about AI in music, NUNO of extreme did an interview with Rick Beato and said "People are worried about AI in music, its been here for decades" People don't realize Pro Tools, Auto Tune, all of that stuff, even layering tracks all of it is AI in its own way, AI has many levels of what It is. People again confuse things like someone paying $5 to download a John Mayer voice to use for a song to cleaning up old vocals to remove tape hiss, its way different stuff.

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The difference is Wolfgang actually saved Van Halen. Without wolf there would have been no Different Kind of Truth. Also , he is a Van Halen. Just my opinion

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I have tons of films and cds with crap art. The old dvd to dog soldiers was horrible, it looked like bad cartoon gorillias. It is one of my all time favorite films. I collect for the content over any cover art, bling, frills, or looks. I don't care if a used cd is missing the book even, as long as the cd looks well kept and is something I enjoy. I mean Metalica basicly did the Spinal Tap thing with black album; not really any art but it was about content.

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One of my pet peeves is when you're listening to an album and right at the beginning of the song the members of the band sing out the name of the song. It's very cheesy & unnecessary.

My name is Brandon. But people call me Brand. Drives me crazy

KISS: Agree, Slipknot: Disagree :) At first I thought the same when seeing Slipknot and I agree it would be better if they do not wear the masks. But I dig in their music and have to say, that they are great and evolve further.

Death metal, growling vocals, especially when there's a great female vocalist.

How much did Anthony pay Vito to turn up at the end !!! 😂😂

One thing that really bothers me musically is certain albums that are recorded with a clicky sounding kick drum sound. I HATE that! It should be a beautiful THUMP, not a click. It's not a click track, it's the sound of ... I don't know, the kick pedal sound? Whatever, I hate it. One sound I do like is a rhythm sample, like from a record and you can hear the scratch in the record, and then they play live drums over that. I love that sound. The Mick Mars album sounds good to me - and I think it's great that he's able to express his muse the way he feels it, and not be tied down to recreating the Crew sound. I also dig the megaphone sound on vocals SOMETIMES, not all the time. • Maybe Eddie is going bald? • Songs about kids: Walter Trout wrote a few songs about his son on one album, I couldn't listen to them. Didn't like that at all. Great conversation here.

No Disrespect to Elvis fans, but after 47+ years still coming out with new albums , atleast one a year for years as it is advertised all the time , thou had to listen to his music , some I liked as my mom and sister listened to him all the time, Whose making royaties of his hidden music most everyone has passed on after all this time, maybe he is still alive , who knows, just weired when you hear someone releasing a new ablum many years after their passing , a little turned off on the idea , it is killing his legacy.

Cheesy lyrics are definitely a turn off.

I'll pretext this by saying I grew up with Country music. It's what my mom listened to. While I'm not a huge fan, I do like and own some of the classic artists of the 70s and 80s. Modern Country, though? I can't stand how stale and generic it's become with fake af southern drawls.

The Darkness are not a parady. Kiss are a parody.

Steel panther sing motley crue songs better than motley crue 😂 🤘🇬🇧

-Southern Rock -Country Music - Boy bands (EWW) lol -Pop music like Madonna - When bands do reversions of their songs - Best of Albums/Live albums anything Weird Al does.

Death metal ,New Metal

Foreigner have moved on with Kelly Hanson & Styx Gowan 👌🏻

Def Leppard hasn't made a good album since hysteria

Given that there’s no reason for shitty recordings and dismal mastering..WHY is so much music crappy to listen too. Just wrapped up the Munich Hi End Audio Fest ..there’s a reason why there’s a selection of music that’s used to demonstrate a $700k audio system.

Motley Crue returning Bands with no original members Grunge Modern Metal and older bands that try and adopt that new crap sound The Cookie Monster growls and Death Metal

Hidden tracks that make you sit through 14 minutes of silence to hear it. Stop doing that!

Auto - Tune

New name for a band…”Eddie Vedder’s Hat”

Hey Brendon.... there's another band that changed their lead vocalist after voting the original singer, and went on to be huge mega successful: Yep, you guessed it, Pink Floyd.

Hair Metal - Metal Ballads . Pop Stars. Pop Metal Bands hiring POP Producers & Songwriters for Commercial Success. Any Music Made strictly for Commercial Success STREAMING !! KISS - do you really need an explanation ? OK here's a hint = ITS KISS !!!! if your not 9 years old Get Over It ! People holding up cell phones at Live Shows Reissues that don't have New material Bands that no longer release CDs - only vinyl & downloads = Lame Bringing Full Beers into the Mosh Pit Making " Lists" & debating "genre labels" online People that don't discover new Bands. Living in the Rear View Mirror & Never Seeking New stuff Dave Mustaine's Voice Dismissing anything without Hearing it first. Example: "I hate Jam Bands". That's BS because You've never Seen or heard PHISH. Box Sets with Too Much Shwag Anyone that Buys a Metal Battle Jacket with Patches already Sewn on. Sew your Own ! Its a BATTLE JACKET - take it to Battle Poser ! Anyone that thinks POP Punk is actually Punk !!

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Growling “cookie monster” style vocals. A shame because a lot of the music that those bands have are really good. Just can’t do it tho. Now the biggest one for me is the electric drum sound that was so prevalent in the 80’s. Even Neal Peart, Alex Van Halen……. Just about everybody did it. Didn’t like it then and HATE it now. For example I think with Rush Grace Under Pressure Power Windows and even Hold Your Fire would have a way better sound with a “real drum” sound replacing that electronic drum junk IMO 😁

Now I understand better why you don't care for the band I like so much but I will respectfully disagree with your opinion on the subject. I do understand it however.

It's why I like death metal, they use real guitars and real amps!

Turnoff: Repetition. It's just lazy

Muisc videos take me away from the songs I love 💿

lots! songs that fade out- that is SLOPPY songwriting, end the damn song dont' make me wait while it fades out...that's why I love live albums!/ concerts they HAVE to end the song there. even worse- fading a song out, then fading it back up...wtf?? end the goddamn song. sloppy and annoying! songs that fade in are just as annoying. and # 4 overhyping musicians.. perfect example- Cobain, yeah - great singer and guitarist my fat ass. \m/

Cookie Monster vocals is an instant turnoff

All bands with growling vocals, its awful.

All the drums sound the same now. Not the style or individuality, the actual sound. Terrible.

If the song has growling or screaming it’s a big turn off. Noise!

Bands who start following political agendas,whereas before it was just the music... Step forward... Within Temptation.... Please...Please Sharon stop waving flags on stage....it's spoilt it for me as a fan since early 2000's.

Late 80s PRODUCTION. Not the music, simply the mixing. Shrill, piercing, non-organic. Take Whitesnake " here i go again" the original from 82, it sounds good, then the 87 version production is so over-the-top. Prime example is 70s era ZZ TOP, its awesome, sounds organic, then some asshole remixed their 1st 6 albums in 1987 for a cd called Zz Top sixpack, and suddenly they sounded terrible. Def Leppard High N Dry sounds awesome, but Hysteria is way overproduced. Dont even get me started on Bon Jovi, the 1st self-titled album sounds good, then Fahrenheit and on, sound awful to me. Steve Winwoods "valerie" from 82, is maybe a little underproduced, but the 87 version is the exact opposite. Overproduction annoys me to the point, where it ruins otherwise good music