Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too?


For me there is one that has always been top of the list.

Edith Piaf…..l just can’t think of anything worse.

Do not get me wrong and consider my choice is in any way racist….l love to listen to music with songs in any language… Italian, French, Spanish…..

Russian and German can however be extremely demanding, but Edith Piaf (if possible in any language) is a potential harrowing experience.

 

Do any others on here have a similar artist, or artists that can trigger the same physical reaction?

mylogic

@thecarpathian 

“She sounds like an operatic munchkin”

 

Yes she had a quite small frame but a large voice. Good pair of lungs and arguably did resembled a munchkin.

After some advice from @chrisochea (thank you) l was enticed to listen to her English songs last night and heard positive results….l suddenly found her to be less annoying. Singing in French l always considered her diction to be rasping and excruciating, but in English her voice is a little more mellow and rolled off. 
I must confess her English adaptations only caused a slight irritation, but while listening l still felt l was running into the yellow brick wall.

Ultimately I’ve now decided l will not be revisiting this artist again……well l’m off to have a wiz. Nature is unexpectedly making that call for some reason after reliving all this.

The recording artist is for me someone l just can’t listen to.

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Thanks again. 11000 metres is about the height of Mount Everest?

 

 

If he, she, or they (a band) are "recording artists", I respect them all (even if I don't particularly care for the music they make). It is the "non-artists" I have a problem with. And sad to say, it is the latter category that dominates the music business. Does that opinion make me an "elitist"? Perhaps. I know from the posts of other Audiogon members that I am not alone.

 

Bob Dylan

Katy Perry

Bruce Springsteen

Jethro Tull

Rod Stewart

Others I can't remember...

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Bruce Springsteen

Bon Jovi

Skid Row

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes.

Suzanne Vega

Madonna

Ted Nugent

REO Speedwagon

Tom Waits

Lady Gag Me.

@tubesjazznblues 

”Lady Gag Me” … Reading that l also thought of Edith …. l gagged and croaked like a frog when drinking my coke.

 

So funny!

 

Revisiting today my original post l see Bruce has entered the charts again. Two mentions this week from the last four responders.

@immatthewj Good to see you back, l thought you had left this one….

Can’t remember if you were the Bruce fan, or was it the “Texas” guy you did battle with?

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See the Boss has gone into meltdown with his Chronic Trump Derangement Syndrome, over in the UK.

He should write a new song, Smuggled into the USA.

Bless him.

You are such a cute little snowflake when you are triggered,  @lordmelton .  You are a real tosser.

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@lordmelton 

l hope you have registered those poignant heartfelt lyrics…..

Possibly a future “hit” me up with that song.
 

Over to you @immatthewj 

I can’t help but wonder what will @texasblues1959 make of all this with his infamous views on “the Boss” 

Jock Straps at the ready at dawn?

Love to see that one... I’ll bring the pop corn

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Though I don't myself consider him a recording "artist", I'll nominate Perry Ferrell. Unlistenable.

 

Those lyrics have been around on the internet for a long time, @mylogic ; lord snowflake didn’t write them.  Texas Jerry is already working on his next A'gon identity; no doubt he will appear again, but not as Texas Jerry.

Hi @immatthewj 

Are you suggesting our Texas guy has had many other alter egos?

Is it possible to fall out with one’s alter ego and magic up another one?

Or could it be his old alter ego has become one he just can’t listen to?

The mind boggles…..

Maybe he could get them all together and form a band. They could all share the writing credits and royalties?

@immatthewj 

Well since you enjoy using British English adverbs I will up you a noun: PONCE, that's what you are a non-binary PONCE.

Better hurry up and get this post removed you cowardly PONCE.

BTW those are my lyrics not stolen from the internet.

You lying PONCE.


@mylogic OP
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05-17-2025 at 10:18pm

@lordmelton

l hope you have registered those poignant heartfelt lyrics…..

Possibly a future “hit” me up with that song.
 

Over to you @immatthewj

I can’t help but wonder what will @texasblues1959 make of all this with his infamous views on “the Boss”

Jock Straps at the ready at dawn?

Love to see that one... I’ll bring the pop corn

 

05-18-2025 at 12:10pm

@immatthewj

Well since you enjoy using British English adverbs I will up you a noun: PONCE, that's what you are a non-binary PONCE.

Better hurry up and get this post removed you cowardly PONCE.

BTW those are my lyrics not stolen from the internet.

You lying PONCE.

 

 

@lordmelton 

Talking of changing names, multiple names and “calling names” on Audiogon

l actually misread your name just now…..…. l read it as “lordmeltdown” which is quite apt for your comments to @immatthewj 

I thought your lyrics very good and entertaining and now the truth is known (claimed by you as the real author) your “heartfelt” feedback arguably quite justified.

“Jock Straps Fully Loaded at Dawn”. What a great title for a film.

l’m sure @immathewj will not ask Audiogon to remove your posts. I believe he enjoys (British expression)… a bit of light banter.

@mylogic Yes I have been called lordmeltdown by namby pamby LGBTQ+ etc., Dems who are all over this site, full to the brim with TDS.

Anyway they're feeling bit better since their 401ks have recovered and tariffs have been drastically reduced. Buy American, yeah, don't believe it.

@immatthewj is a cancel culture ponce, not a real man who can take a hit and get back up smiling.

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@lordmelton 

@immatthewj 

This subject is really hot…..


It’s really heating up….

Mediators going “tut tut”

5 posts removed and cut

 

l  have  just  noticed  how  many  have  disappeared…

l wish l could read them, they must have been feared

Where are they all now, were they so bad?

Will never know why, makes me feel mad… 

or sad…... l can’t make up my mind

Perhaps the censors just being kind?

 

Have to admit, one of them was mine

…….slapped wrist.
 

 

Generally the mods don't delete posts unless someone bitches.

Obviously anything completely off the reservation will and should be removed asap

Lord snowflake. I wouldn’t have even had a chance to read those lyrics that you plagiarized from the internet if A’gon didn’t send out an automated email with part of your stolen song in it.  By the time I got there your plagiarism was already gone, and the fact that it is plagiarism may be the reason.

As far as deleted posts on this thread, I believe most of them have been mine, and it doesn't matter to me, but I personally suspect Texas-Jerry.

Anyway, lord snowflake, we all know you are just jealous because you will never be a real alpha-male like Bruce is.  

@texasblues1959 
 

Who nobbled and gobbled?
Alleged malarkey hobbled!

Was it you?
Is that true?
If so, were you feeling blue?
Happy now it’s all up the flue

Serious accusations man, but perhaps a little premature or immature.

From the direction of……….. @immatthewj 

Hmmmm… 

taken down posts

 @immatthewj   l think Audiogon only send an automated email of a deleted post to the actual member who posted it, and the first line is always visible.

Thinking it over Texas Jerry would hardly have taken down an obtuse Brucie lyric….

He hates the guy!

@lordmelton l wish l had photographed those lyrics before the cut.

 

@mylogic ,

I believe Texas Jerry is once again no more.

At last count, he's been banned at least a dozen times. I find it interesting that someone who does nothing but insult and show disdain for fellow members, is so desperate to be on this forum.

@thecarpathian 

As your sleuthing has shown…and quite apt.

Like the Titanic… sunk but not without trace.

FACT…… RMS Carpathia and all that….

My Grandfather was on the Titanic

Looks like Brucie had another meltdown in Manchester UK, this TDS is serious stuff. He seems to be having a bad hair day too WTF that ain't a rockers hairdo, he looks like a shoe salesman.

Anyhow it's nice to be accused of plagiarism because my lyrics were pretty good, but they were 100% mine.

I will endeavor to write a complete song and present it to y'all and probably give it to Kid Rock to upset people with. Maybe it could become the ICE anthem.

God Bless

Probably....some twangy doofus singing about the pack of smokes he got from quikshop after some gal broke his heart into a million different pieces...not to mention all his cousins who follow the same formula in the music biz.

The twang makes me nauseous

Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too?

Or the other doofus who’s singing "Move bch, get out the way...get out the way bch, get out the way"

Well, as you can see fellas, there’s  a bch in his way...and she needs to move (apparently).

 @immatthewj   l think Audiogon only send an automated email of a deleted post to the actual member who posted it, and the first line is always visible.

@mylogic , the automated emails I am referring to is when you are mentioned in a post.  For example,  the 2 emails I received due to your post that I am now responding to.  Same thing with lord snowflake’s post in which he mentioned me.  His post had already been removed, but the first few words of the song he plagiarized from some internet site were included in the second email.

For example, you should have also received an email similar to this:

lordmelton 05-17-2025 9:22am EST

@immatthewj Enjoy! Crossed the border at Eagle Pass Big bag of meth up my a** Got a phone and sneakers from Jefe Joe Heading up to NYC to see AOC, and rape a chick or three Smuggled in the USA by M... View full response →

in addition to an email like this:

You were mentioned in this discussion

Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too?

 

 

Thinking it over Texas Jerry would hardly have taken down an obtuse Brucie lyric….

He hates the guy!

And I was not implying that texas-jerry reported lord snowflake's post; I was referring to about more than a half dozen of my posts that were removed way back at the inception of this thread.

Oh my, lord snowflake is so cute when he is triggered!  I bet his ears are turning red and he is stamping his little feet and his mom is yelling down to the basement for him to be quiet or she will have his internet turned off.

@immatthewj 

Hi there…. Some feedback from your post reference notification emails….

There must be something different happening in the States.

When l receive a notification of someone posting directly to me, l only receive my original post heading. There is no second email of the content of that post like the example you have kindly shown. I have never seen anything like the one you have posted (thank you) to me. So there has never been the option to open this with “view full response” etched in blue. The only info is “You were mentioned in a discussion”…Most odd.
I monitor on my iPhone and iPad (not PC) and wonder why the system operates differently here in the UK〰️〰️〰️ over the pond.

The 5 taken down posts if refer to were for just 6 days. 13th to 18th May

 

Footnote

l have only had two posts taken down……

You are a self confessed expert in that department. Ha Ha

The Decemberists. Way too whiny vocals. Can’t stand them. Sound like they ought to be in a Monty Python sketch. 

I can take Bjork! for a few songs, but not very many at one time. Her vocal gymnastics are just too hard on the ears. She makes Kate Bush sound sublime by comparison.