Annoying Things in the Musical World

[Lumenskir]

Lame endings to albums - Please guys, stop this "going out with a whimper" charade. It rarely works like I think you want it to work, and most of the time you put the most somber song after a normally paced song and leave me wanting more rapidity. And fuck you if the last track is just 48 seconds of noodling, because the CD doesn't stop with me going "Oh, I guess that was them reeling their instruments in and leaving the studio", it's more akin to "Wait a second, why the fuck is there an interlude with nothing to interlude to?" Which leads us to -

Interludes? Fucking Interludes?! - You do not need to devote an entire 'track' to half a minute of some incoherent babble in between songs I actually want to listen to. You know what, I'm going to throw 98% of all skits on rap albums into this complaint; The only enjoyable one was the "sewing your asshole shut and feeding you" skit that Wu-Tang did, so you can just wait till you get invited onto SNL to indulge your comedic side.

"I just can't listen to music these days" Complainers - Please shut up then, we gave you your own radio stations (note the plural) so we wouldn't have to deal with your constant complaints of a sonic Golgotha.

Older Musicians who talk about how they can't listen to any of the music being made nowadays - Look, I'm sorry your popularity didn't extend into the present day, but knocking the bands currently working does not transform your Greatest Hits album into a work of art.

Excessive Clappers at Concerts - There are a few always acceptable times to clap at a concert: When the band comes on, during a lull after a song is done, if the band urges you to clap along with the song, and when the band leaves. There are also times when you can be forgiven for a spontaneous bout of clapping, like when the lead singer says something particularly clap worthy. You don't have to clap your hands: when the band starts playing a song you recognize (especially annoying if you only start clapping when the most familiar guitar part kicks in) or during a lull in the middle of the song (which tells everyone around you that you totally thought the song was over seeing as you have no idea what the actual song sounds like) or after a solo while the music is still going or just because you're really, ya know, feeling the music.

[Mike McC]

First, I want to address a few things!Lame endings to albumsThey all can't be U2's Zooropa, where they decided to end thier album with a song sung by Johnny Cash. Really, it makes everything else that isn't ended by Johnny Cash look like trash.Interludes? Fucking Interludes?!That kind of thing just goes hand in hand with Rap. And besides, some non rap groups put these tracks to good use. Listen to Tenacious D sometime.Excessive Clappers at ConcertsWhen you're at a concert, you really do get caught up in the moment.

Anyway, my complaints.

Sloppily mastered CDs. Come on studios, you can do better with some of these. Like, if a song is supposed to seamlessly segue into the next track, don't put a half second gap between the tracks, it really throws things off.

Sufjan Stevens, make the next state album. Illinois was the best album ever, and I need to hear more. Please, please, please.

That's about all I can think of.

[Lumenskir]

That kind of thing just goes hand in hand with Rap. And besides, some non rap groups put these tracks to good use.
? In all of the rap albums I have, only a handful have actual interludes, and only a few had skits (I tend to delete skits when I remember to). My problem with skits is that no matter how funny they are, the second (and further) time I listen to it the originality and surprise is gone, leaving me with a dead track.

Interludes are more the realm of non-rap groups, and I just don't get their purpose. I mean, just looking at Illinois, 6 out of the 19 named tracks (i.e. 31%) are interludes, and one of those is 6 pointless seconds long. There are very few instances when an interlude can't just be tacked onto the beginning/ending of a song that comes before/after it.
When you're at a concert, you really do get caught up in the moment.
This complaint was mostly borne from the Radiohead concert I went to where you could set your watch by the people who clapped when the first notes of a song started, then the second wave when the guitar came in, then the final wave when the singing began. It's annoying when I almost can't hear the song just because somebody had to alert the world that a song they really liked was starting.