Wow. I usually don't like techno-y things maybe just what I've been exposed to but this is pretty good actually.

That's because I make music, not just something to wiggle your butt to while you trip out of your mind on cheap drugs.

*nodnods* You got it.

Some of them drugs aren't cheap!

I also think it's fairly ignorant (if you're being sincere)to talk about dance music like that.

My dear, I've been a fan of The Orbital, the Chrystal Method, and numerous, no-name dance-mongers since before I can remember, and of course a load of new guys here on FA. My two favorite forms of music are Metal and Electronica, and neither can beat out the other. In addition, no sub-genre of either can win against the rest, so flying, dreamy trance can boogie alongside braindance, just as sore-throat death metal can bang heads with cheeseball power metal.

That said, I'm plenty sincere about disliking Thump-se-Thump-se, repettitive, c-major/aminor-scale driven arpeggios, and uninteresting, basic sawtooth leads that don't really seem to do anything but copy one another. Sadly, as in ALL forms of music, these types are dime-a-dozen.

"If unorriginal, insincere: unwanted."

What about the near constant pentatonic scales and minor key whoring of most metal bands?

There's a Daft Punk song that is nothing BUT A simple house beat and one synthesizer sound. It's SO simple and analog. It's also fantastically arranged. Thump-se, is literally known as two-step, it's just a style of rhythm.

I think it's fair to say most metal is as unnoriginal as chicago house. More than anything else, you may aswell say "I don't like bad music" because what you said can be dirrected at any genre I know of.

Maybe I'm wrong but your little description sounds as though it holds disdain for people...who just like the house beats. Which is rediculous enough anyway.

I think you're reading father into this than ever was there. I simply dislike unoriginality and bland simpleness that took little skill or effort to produce. I despise a great deal of piss-poor metal artists, even the ones that can play faster than the eye can see - many a great musician exists without an original note in their body, likewise, many a great soundsmith exists with nothing new to put through the speakers.

There's a great deal of scale-whoring and format-abuse in calssical, romantic, and even Baroque period music I have a distatse for. Complexity alone does not make up for lack of imagination.

For the record, most of my electronica collection IS house, but rarely does one tune resemble another in anything more than rhythm or base-level synthesis. Most good artists tend to at least break free of factory presets and make truely amazing works, rich in timbre, tune, or both, and always full of soul and emotion.

Oh, and one of my other submissions is a house beat anyway.

As for disliking house-lovers, I never dislike anyone based on taste alone, nor do I like a person because our tastes collide. My best friend has tawdry tastes in some of the most inane 80s synthpop tunes (not to degrade all 80s synthpop, of course - gotta love Gary Nueman!), and one man who's earned my bitter contempt has nearly identical tastes to me, and happens to be a brilliant musician.

I like or dislike based on action and attitude, and the idea of hating one based on a genre of music they like is comically absurd, especially since not everyone "is a music person", just as I myself am not much of "an art person", and I've been told my taste in motor vehicles is absolute rubbish (I'm saving up for a teeny pink moped). That, and everyone has their guilty pleasures - I still listen to Europop by Eifel 65. They're the perfect example of factory-sound unoriginality, but I love them nonetheless.

That's all perfectly fine. I just feel as though it was worded rather negatively and was widely unnecesary.

Also NEVER put it past someone to be comically absurd.

Eh, that's why I don't like people. They ARE comically absurd, by and large.

I suppose that's the whole glory of satirist and absurdist humor.

Oh, and forgot about Narrator. He was so small-time and bad he dissapeared altogether, but I guard that CD like it was gold.