words you irrationally dislike

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"kudos" drives me up the wall.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

oops this was meant for ile

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

So make it Music words you dislike ...

....like "timbre"

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"seasoned veterans"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"rockist"

by the time Byron Coley's using it, it's over.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

"ear candy"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

- Soundscape -

― jot eff pe, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Fun.

Hahahahahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Soundscape. Stupid word. Also, 'post-punk' makes me angry, but that's two words...

― Callum (Callum), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

'songsmith', horrible bloody word

― DG (D_To_The_G), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

quirky

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

CHANTEUSE

― Horace Mann, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Eclectic (sounds like someone playing the spoons), as it's so non-committal.

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

'Wry'. Fuck OFF!!!

― dave q, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

troubadour

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

pop/punk/ ____ sensibilities

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

dylanesque

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

- entrancing -

- Emo -

- reissue - ...just the sound of it.

― jot eff pe, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

using "effort" as a synonym for "album"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

"hyperlink"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

using "effort" as a synonym for "album"

How about the good ole...

- sophomore effort -

Sounds like lukewarm vodka tastes.

― jot eff pe, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Shit, I think I've used all of these awful words & phrases. I'd nominate "streamlined," but I think I've used that one too. How about "chart rap"?

― Matt C., Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

"overwrought"

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"Weaving" or "Weaves" ..( not an irrational hatred though ...)

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

"outfit" as synonym for "band" or "group".

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Eclectic. I know it's been said already but I hate it sooooo much.

― meirion john lewis (mei), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Yr.

― Douglas, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

"Orwellian"

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

"Artsy." (Especially when the intended tone is unclear.)

― gazuga (gazuga), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

felt like writing "oeuvre"
(whoops, i did)
and then remembered that i don't actually hate it - it just makes me giggle a lot whenever i see it

― t\'\'t (t''t), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"underground"

As if to imply that music is 'revolutionary' simply because nobody has heard of it. Harriet Tubman moving slaves across state lines to freedom was 'underground'. The French Revolution was 'underground'. No matter how few people know about a band, they're not 'underground', they're just a band nobody knows about.

When bands start involving themselves in covert enviroterrorist activities against an oppressive oil/war/industry regime while running from the law as fugitives, living in the wilderness, THEN you can call them 'underground'.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"slab"

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

groove

― Ryan Pitchfork, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick, you have just made my entire week.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

That would actually make a fantastic musical comedy for Godspeed You Black Emperor.

― Ryan Pitchfork, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

'rock' and 'opera' -- while i've nothing in particular against either of them when they're kept separately, if joined together...

― t\'\'t (t''t), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"sonic" is always so cringy

― bob zemko (bob), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

'gig' and 'live music'

(but 'concert' or 'show' is fine)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

"genre"

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"Sonic" and "blast" must never be joined.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

OXYMORON

― Ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

"aight" is starting to grate on me

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

how about people who say "THAT's what I'm talking 'bout!" when they haven't been talking about anything

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

as long as we're going down that road ... "youknowwhatI'msayin'"

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

For real though, Fritz...that's what I'm talking about!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Ferg, couldn't disagree more with you on that
"oxymoron" is a wondrous-sounding word and a devine stylistic device

― t\'\'t (t''t), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm possibly associating it too much with the old 'A (positive adjective)(thing you don't like)? Snort. Surely that's an oxymoron' too much. But oh, it just seems a bit silly and unwieldy anyway.

― Ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"Continuity" and "Cohesion".

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 23:49 (twenty-three years ago)

All critical shorthand, even (especially) when I use it myself.

"Rocking" as an adjective.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"Kafkaesque," "tasteful," and "'nuff said". (two words, I know, but it's horrible!)

― original bgm, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 00:01 (twenty-three years ago)

angular

― angelo (angelo), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 03:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"gritty," "craft," "attitude."

― The Longitudinal Kid, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 05:05 (twenty-three years ago)

"radiohead"

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 06:06 (twenty-three years ago)

and on that note, Stereophonics. I like most of the words mentioned here = ILM must think my writing's awful...hee!

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 07:01 (twenty-three years ago)

will second "radiohead"

― t\'\'t (t''t), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 09:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I second (or third) "gig".

Yuk.

I use it all the time, but what's the alternative?

― meirion john lewis (mei), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 11:47 (twenty-three years ago)

what's the alternative?
Engagement. That's much better.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

boo.

not the ghost boy but the Nelly's "Dillemma" boo.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

boo, not boy. wtf?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

"undie"
"Call it [insert for-the-purposes-of-this-review-only genre here]"
"-tronica"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 19 December 2002 01:12 (twenty-three years ago)

eight years pass...

groove
― Ryan Pitchfork, Tuesday, December 17, 2002 12:41 PM (8 years ago)

site:pitchfork.com "groove"

About 630,000 results

― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Friday, 25 March 2011 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

wow bro u really took rock critic Ryan Schreiber down a notch, how do u do these things

― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, 25 March 2011 19:35 (fifteen years ago)

???

― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Friday, 25 March 2011 19:40 (fifteen years ago)

Most of those mentions are this sentence:

In 2004, Light in the Attic released a compilation called Wheedle's Groove

― i have a hot bagel waiting for me in my bed so ill say this: (kkvgz), Friday, 25 March 2011 19:40 (fifteen years ago)

its like rain on your wedding day

― I'm totally kidding. Congrats strangers. (Matt P), Friday, 25 March 2011 19:41 (fifteen years ago)

eight years pass...

I hate the amount that people use the word sociopath these days. It pissed me off that there's both sociopaths and psychopaths. I'm irrationally indifferent to the distinctions between them. In a situation where I might need to employ one of them, I'm going to go with psychopath because it sounds cooler. Sociopath sounds so nerdy.

― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 2 May 2019 11:58 (seven years ago)

"Renowned" drives me nuts.

― mike t-diva, Thursday, 2 May 2019 12:29 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

when people refer to their house as their 'property'

'we just bought our first property'

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 10:46 (five years ago)

Back on music... "platter" (for LP) always made me shudder.
Didn't like "disc" much either.

― Maltrsnapper, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 11:11 (five years ago)

That's entirely rational. xp

― peace, man, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 11:12 (five years ago)

'Property' really makes people sound like smug venture capitalist twats, I agree

― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 11:41 (five years ago)

Platter is terrible.

― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 12:15 (five years ago)

Though it is a nice word.

― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 12:16 (five years ago)

concur
problematic

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 12:26 (five years ago)

I really like platters, especially in the phrase "all the platters that matter".

― peace, man, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 12:33 (five years ago)

don't hate on "concur":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbwBUHgHVa0

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 2 July 2020 21:17 (five years ago)

Kitchenette.

― pomenitul, Thursday, 2 July 2020 21:23 (five years ago)

"eggplant" tho, what is that about? (well, I looked it up so I know what it's about, but it's a stupid name that's a total mismatch with this magnificent vegetable, unlike "aubergine", which is chef's kiss)

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 2 July 2020 21:25 (five years ago)

I hope that 'aubergine' is indeed ultimately derived from the Sanskrit 'vātigagama', which apparently means 'the plant that cures the wind'.

― pomenitul, Thursday, 2 July 2020 21:34 (five years ago)

Irrational... maybe not. But there are a few words and phrases in IG record collector circles that get me down: "gifted" (to be given something), "out in the wild" (to chance upon something in the real world) and, yeah, "platter." Mostly I hate them because I find myself gravitating towards them in the written word.

― cooldix, Friday, 3 July 2020 17:45 (five years ago)

I just heard a woman saying she was "spiritual" and was annoyed with her, then the word, then myself because I knew what she meant and can't think of a better way to express it.

― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 3 July 2020 18:12 (five years ago)

“prescient”
Just so awkward

― calstars, Friday, 3 July 2020 18:36 (five years ago)

Especially with the pronunciation that I hear some ppl in the US use: 'preshent'

― Maresn3st, Friday, 3 July 2020 22:52 (five years ago)

How do you pronounce it?

― calstars, Friday, 3 July 2020 23:01 (five years ago)

White eggplant:
https://edge.bonnieplants.com/www/uploads/20180920004050/white-eggplant-768x929.jpg
(looks like...something other than eggs to me, but....)

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 3 July 2020 23:10 (five years ago)

(xp) Prescient

― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 3 July 2020 23:14 (five years ago)

brits pronounce words like this, and yanks like this, amirite?

― Pat McGroin (morrisp), Friday, 3 July 2020 23:20 (five years ago)

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