Is there anything more horrible than Smooth Jazz??

Planet

That's a hard question to answer. Give me some ideas

teddyrosso

That's a hard question to answer. Give me some ideas

Lay off the kenny g .. early benson joints are welcome though

youngEINSTEIN

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it's mostly wack but i do like a few things. paul hardcastle did a few albums as THE JAZZ MASTERS. which are bangin. peace, stein. . .

AlGarth

YES.

MASH UPS.

THE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO MUSIC SINCE DAVID HASSELHOFF.

NachoManCandySandwich

Let's put it this way...

Your car flips while doing 70 on the freeway. You're trapped inside the mangled iron shell and the smell of leaked gasoline is the only distraction from the blinding pain of your left left arm having been severed. Oh, and the car's radio got knocked to a random station.
As you slip into darkness from the massive blood-loss would you rather have the last notes you hear be:

or

?

I guess I'd have to go with the "smooth vibes," although wishing desperately for death's sweet embrace.

Goodnight!

jeny

That's a hard question to answer. Give me some ideas

COUNTRY & DEATHMETAL

batmon

Do the math.

Swayze

Let's put it this way...

Your car flips while doing 70 on the freeway. You're trapped inside the mangled iron shell and the smell of leaked gasoline is the only distraction from the blinding pain of your left left arm having been severed. Oh, and the car's radio got knocked to a random station.
As you slip into darkness from the massive blood-loss would you rather have the last notes you hear be:

or

?

I guess I'd have to go with the "smooth vibes," although wishing desperately for death's sweet embrace.

Goodnight!

oooooh. I was going to say no, nothing worse than smooth jazz, but this post got me. damn. i guess there are worse things.

Birdman9

Let's put it this way...

Your car flips while doing 70 on the freeway. You're trapped inside the mangled iron shell and the smell of leaked gasoline is the only distraction from the blinding pain of your left left arm having been severed. Oh, and the car's radio got knocked to a random station.
As you slip into darkness from the massive blood-loss would you rather have the last notes you hear be:

or

?

I guess I'd have to go with the "smooth vibes," although wishing desperately for death's sweet embrace.

Goodnight!

oooooh. I was going to say no, nothing worse than smooth jazz, but this post got me. damn. i guess there are worse things.

So so many worse things. So many.

nrich

'pop' country is definately worse in the realm of relative bad 'music'

Funky_McVay

and anything else that sounds like this garbage

james

The "Smooth" radio format is some revolutionary (if throwed-back) shit, though. Outside of mixtapes, in how many other contexts do you hear music that's programmed not by its genre and not by the demographics of its listenership but by its abstract aesthetic? My dad is deep in the Smooth lifestyle (dude was country when country wasn't cool, so to speak: He's been down with the Smoove unit since the mid-eighties when his avuncular cocoa co-worker Greg--he of the late-model zinfandel-colored something with the "LOAFIN" vanity plate--turned him out with some Najee), so whenever we go to visit him, it's wall-to-wall "Wave FM" or whatever--in the crib, in the convertible, while ordering assorted chicken-based wraps named after towns in Arizona, etc.--and I can honestly say that said station will seemingly play anything, by any artist, in any genre, from any time period, as long as it feels smooth. In one weekend, on one station, I heard Bobby Caldwell, late-period Miracles, Beck, Al Green, MacNeal and Niles, Paul Hardcastle, Etta James, The Deele, Dave Brubeck, Steely Dan, Maroon 5, Lee Morgan, Johnny Hammond, Jefferson Starship, Jobim, Talking Heads, and on and on and on. Regardless of how one feels about the individual artists, where the fuck else do you hear that kind of sensibility in wide public broadcast? Those of you that can't get past the specifics of the playlist ("Fuck a Kenny G, thun!"), think of it this way: Imagine if there was some station that would play anything, by any artist, in any genre, from any time period, as long as it felt hard (settle down, Beavis): MC5, Public Enemy, Metallica, Prince Far I, Funkadelic, Alber Ayler, M.O.P., and on and on and on. Well, that's what's going on with a lot of these "Smooth" stations. You ain't gotta like it, but please recgonize this for the soft bomb that it is.

And in a side note: All those who diss Men With Hats out of hand better hope that Clubbup doesn't see that shit. You'll be a bus ticket.

noz

as the resident soulstrut nu-metal apologist, i feel a need to chime in and say that system of a down sounds nothing like papa roach.

Swayze

Dang. Thats pretty deep.

the3rdstream

That's a hard question to answer. Give me some ideas

faux_rillz

That's a hard question to answer. Give me some ideas

Smooth rap:

badder_than_evil

That's a hard question to answer. Give me some ideas

oh yes.i`d die of frustration trying to change the station if sealion dion was on the radio..

Swayze

some of the later era Donald Byrd (like off of places and spaces) and Blackbyrds might be considered "smooth"--but yeah--most of this sucks the suck suck.

Birdman9

That's a hard question to answer. Give me some ideas

oh yes.i`d die of frustration trying to change the station if sealion dion was on the radio..

give me nu-metal, now-cuntry, smooth jazz and Rush Limbaugh over ANY of the above.

meatyogre

cmon man, if it wasn't for smooth Jazz, Sonicreducer would be out of a job. Wasn't it something like 60% of the customers that visit Street Corner are looking strictly for smooth?

I think this is a profession-specific genre. You gotta be in the taxi-driving scene, or dentistry to really appreciate the aesthetic.

p_gunn

I think this is a profession-specific genre. You gotta be in the taxi-driving scene, or dentistry to really appreciate the aesthetic.

true, to the point that i now associate Grover Washington with my teeth and gums being ripped apart... it's Pavlovian...

lotusland

some of the light jazz shit on satellites would be aiight if they killed the sax solos. some of the bed tracks are nice. there is definitely a bunch of modern "CTI level" tunes are being made on a daily.

Soulhawk

smoove jazz is the essence of 'gansta'...

DJ_NevilleC

Smooth jazz doesn't bother me (I'll never listen to it). What bothers me is the use of the word "jazz" in the genre name.

parsec

AC/DC

Bapt

Bapt

PS/ I like "music of elevator" aka smooth jazz.

TECUMSEH

Nuff said.

Guzzo

dude was country when country wasn't cool, so to speak: He's been down with the Smoove unit since the mid-eighties when his avuncular cocoa co-worker Greg--he of the late-model zinfandel-colored something with the "LOAFIN" vanity plate--turned him out with some Najee

I am in the process of memorizing this line so I can blurt it out in the middle of tonights class lecture at the most inopportune time.

Smooth Jazz is the modern "modern soul".

Screwed and chopped Collins & Collins while sippin on some robitussin CF in the front of 2003 Plymouth going 45 in a 50 zone

You feel me?

hcrink

The "Smooth" radio format is some revolutionary (if throwed-back) shit, though. Outside of mixtapes, in how many other contexts do you hear music that's programmed not by its genre and not by the demographics of its listenership but by its abstract aesthetic? My dad is deep in the Smooth lifestyle (dude was country when country wasn't cool, so to speak: He's been down with the Smoove unit since the mid-eighties when his avuncular cocoa co-worker Greg--he of the late-model zinfandel-colored something with the "LOAFIN" vanity plate--turned him out with some Najee), so whenever we go to visit him, it's wall-to-wall "Wave FM" or whatever--in the crib, in the convertible, while ordering assorted chicken-based wraps named after towns in Arizona, etc.--and I can honestly say that said station will seemingly play anything, by any artist, in any genre, from any time period, as long as it feels smooth. In one weekend, on one station, I heard Bobby Caldwell, late-period Miracles, Beck, Al Green, MacNeal and Niles, Paul Hardcastle, Etta James, The Deele, Dave Brubeck, Steely Dan, Maroon 5, Lee Morgan, Johnny Hammond, Jefferson Starship, Jobim, Talking Heads, and on and on and on. Regardless of how one feels about the individual artists, where the fuck else do you hear that kind of sensibility in wide public broadcast? Those of you that can't get past the specifics of the playlist ("Fuck a Kenny G, thun!"), think of it this way: Imagine if there was some station that would play anything, by any artist, in any genre, from any time period, as long as it felt hard (settle down, Beavis): MC5, Public Enemy, Metallica, Prince Far I, Funkadelic, Alber Ayler, M.O.P., and on and on and on. Well, that's what's going on with a lot of these "Smooth" stations. You ain't gotta like it, but please recgonize this for the soft bomb that it is.

And in a side note: All those who diss Men With Hats out of hand better hope that Clubbup doesn't see that shit. You'll be a bus ticket.

dude... reading this has changed me...

I don't know if I can go on living the way I once did...

parsec

DIE!!!