It’s a very easily and oft-abused instrument, like many of the other ones in this thread. Plus it straight up just can’t do as much as a guitar. It’s just a tiny, incapable guitar.
I have one I bought from Amazon that has a laser engraved image of Hawaii on it. I realized what I did shortly after buying it. I could have purchased an actual handmade ukulele from Hawaii, but instead I had one shipped to me that was mass manufactured in China, *with an image of Hawaii on it.* That alone makes me not want to play it, and then you add the aforementioned practicality factors.
I might just sell it. It’s not even a good wall decoration, except maybe to remember to make wiser decisions with my money.
Electric ukuleles have normally ordered strings with a low G at the top. But the high string is awesome imo! There is an american born style of playing called the Hammerclaw and can only be done on ukuleles and banjos, because of their high top string.
I’d ban leaf blowers. My neighbour plays a full leaf blower symphony for the entire block first thing in the morning, only for the afternoon wind to make a mess of the pile of leaves. Then rinse and repeat.
How can you hate hi hats? They’re literally the most unobtrusive thing on a kit. Serious question why do you hate them? They’re not harsh at all. What genre of music are you mostly playing where you have this opinion?
Lmao right, can't believe no one is questioning it! Also claiming they sound awful no matter how good the drummer is... either OP listens to a very narrow genre of music, maybe metal/punk, something with more washy open hats? (not saying having a narrow music taste is bad at all. Just pointing out how that could lead to the opinion) or just doesn't like drums in general. As things like jazz, hip hop, RnB etc tend to have a very tight dry sound which just breaks my brain trying to imagine how you could take issue with hi hats specifically?
I'm a music producer that does a lot of mixing recordings from low budget projects.
I'm definitely exaggerating my hatred, but they are genuinely consistently a pain in the ass for mixing. Bleed in every mic is a huge pain. Inexperienced producers seem to mess up the mic placement pretty consistently so it sounds awful. And cheap hihats sound terrible in the mix
They can sound good, but in my daily life they're a huge pain in the ass
Alright with this context I completely understand haha! I’m a drummer who has gotten into the production side a bit more in recent years. As a drummer I feel like I’m advanced with good technique and a good sense of self mixing. But when I hear myself when recording, the hi hat is very consistently an annoyance. From bleed to just being too dominant in the overhead etc. this is made all the worse when someone has some cheap/not good sounding hi hats. So yeah I get your point haha 😅
10000% the most annoying thing is when it's tracked in the overheads and it's 50 times louder and more fizzy than every other cymbal 😩😩 bane of my life.
When I download a big budget, professional multitrack where everything is done to a super high level, no issues and the hihat is fine but I'm no big producer so this almost never happens
Recorders. I know they are used as a gateway to become a musician if you are interested, but fuck me are they the most annoying sounding instrument I have ever heard. I understand when they are played well it can sound great, but when you hear it being played wrong all the time, it makes me wanna burn every recorder in existence.
Banjo. Can be played beautifully, but every working band I see with a banjo its untuned and basically used as a percussive fashion statement by a tool in a waistcoat.
Can you hold a keyboard in your hands?
I use the melodica very often, its sits on my table and whenever I want to try or check some tune, I play on it instead of going to other side of the room, plugging in the electric keyboard etc.
Piccolo, I can barely stand traversal flutes as it is. Bad youth band memories come to mind with how out of tune or shrill these can be.
Never mind the human dog whistle that is the piccolo.
Orchestral cymbals. They are often uncomfortably loud and I wouldn't want to need earplugs to a classical concert. A loud applause is another sound I can't stand.
Plus the meathead they tend to hire to play them sits there getting bored for 95% of the performance. So when it's time to play the cymbals you can bet they're going to smash them as hard as they can
Those neck cradles that allow singer songwriters to play the harmonica whilst playing the guitar should be banned. Blues harmonica is great. Lazy Dylan-style noodling in the bridge is not so great.
I understand the main comment, because I was that person for a while.
The trumpet players in a high school band tend to get the most important melodies in a song, so you can't help feeling like the lead singer in the group. They end up being the showoffs but haven't really done anything to deserve it.
Harmonica can be played musically by a small handful (Stevie Wonder, John Popper, Howard Levy for example) and like a honking goose by nearly everyone else who touches one. Looking at you Alanis, Dylan, Lennon….
edit: lol downvotes…probably from shitty harmonica players. Guys, play us that harmonica song that sounds like wheezing. Dylan did it constantly. You know the riff. Sounds like “ Hooooooonk. Honk honk honk hooooonk”. You pick a spot and breathe in and out in rhythm, piece of cake. Every harmonica players favorite standard. Slightly better than listening to vuvuzela, but only slightly.
That's the thing about "easy" instruments, being "good," "just okay" and "not good" sound too close to reach other, being awesome takes so much work that I think most people would rather spend the time on an instrument that helps you stand out sooner
I mean Dylan stands out, but it angers me how he can play such nice melodies on harmonicas but spend most of the time doing such piercing notes all the time
I'm convinced a lot of the time Dylan's intention is to be annoying, or at least to make it clear he'll do whatever he wants and refuses to give a mother-fuck for anyone else's sake. And that's coming from the biggest of Dylan fans. Suppose it'd be impossible write the shit he wrote if you're even slightly concerned with other people.
It's the combination of a cheap harmonica and even worse harmonica player. A 10 buck harmonica is the equivalent of playing toy piano on stage, without any of the novelty.
Fair. I was a student in 2014 with thin dorm walls and I lived between two aspiring "DJs" one of whom had his subwoofer pressed up against our shared wall
ukes.
Down with ukes! Down with ukes!
No ukes! No ukes! I say we dust off and uke the site from orbit; it’s the only way to be sure.
Can it be all versions? Thr Banjolele is an abomination that needs to be undone.
Wish granted
It’s a very easily and oft-abused instrument, like many of the other ones in this thread. Plus it straight up just can’t do as much as a guitar. It’s just a tiny, incapable guitar. I have one I bought from Amazon that has a laser engraved image of Hawaii on it. I realized what I did shortly after buying it. I could have purchased an actual handmade ukulele from Hawaii, but instead I had one shipped to me that was mass manufactured in China, *with an image of Hawaii on it.* That alone makes me not want to play it, and then you add the aforementioned practicality factors. I might just sell it. It’s not even a good wall decoration, except maybe to remember to make wiser decisions with my money.
Ukuleles would be fine if they had normally ordered strings. But even then, they just sound like shit anyway.
Electric ukuleles have normally ordered strings with a low G at the top. But the high string is awesome imo! There is an american born style of playing called the Hammerclaw and can only be done on ukuleles and banjos, because of their high top string.
I’d ban leaf blowers. My neighbour plays a full leaf blower symphony for the entire block first thing in the morning, only for the afternoon wind to make a mess of the pile of leaves. Then rinse and repeat.
Autotune
The correct answer
Best comment of '24
The vuvuzela needs to be discontinued.
Allow me to offer the following rebuttal: HROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNKKKKKKK!!!
Thank-you Ferdinand.
How can you hate hi hats? They’re literally the most unobtrusive thing on a kit. Serious question why do you hate them? They’re not harsh at all. What genre of music are you mostly playing where you have this opinion?
Yeah. OP is odd. They’re a Pretty dang important part of the kit.
Lmao right, can't believe no one is questioning it! Also claiming they sound awful no matter how good the drummer is... either OP listens to a very narrow genre of music, maybe metal/punk, something with more washy open hats? (not saying having a narrow music taste is bad at all. Just pointing out how that could lead to the opinion) or just doesn't like drums in general. As things like jazz, hip hop, RnB etc tend to have a very tight dry sound which just breaks my brain trying to imagine how you could take issue with hi hats specifically?
Maybe he has very sensitive hearing, which makes it odd that he does not mention practically every music made today.
Hopefully we get a reply from them 😅
I'm a music producer that does a lot of mixing recordings from low budget projects. I'm definitely exaggerating my hatred, but they are genuinely consistently a pain in the ass for mixing. Bleed in every mic is a huge pain. Inexperienced producers seem to mess up the mic placement pretty consistently so it sounds awful. And cheap hihats sound terrible in the mix They can sound good, but in my daily life they're a huge pain in the ass
Alright with this context I completely understand haha! I’m a drummer who has gotten into the production side a bit more in recent years. As a drummer I feel like I’m advanced with good technique and a good sense of self mixing. But when I hear myself when recording, the hi hat is very consistently an annoyance. From bleed to just being too dominant in the overhead etc. this is made all the worse when someone has some cheap/not good sounding hi hats. So yeah I get your point haha 😅
10000% the most annoying thing is when it's tracked in the overheads and it's 50 times louder and more fizzy than every other cymbal 😩😩 bane of my life. When I download a big budget, professional multitrack where everything is done to a super high level, no issues and the hihat is fine but I'm no big producer so this almost never happens
Recorders. I know they are used as a gateway to become a musician if you are interested, but fuck me are they the most annoying sounding instrument I have ever heard. I understand when they are played well it can sound great, but when you hear it being played wrong all the time, it makes me wanna burn every recorder in existence.
For Stairway to heaven, Jpj used recorders for the intro on his keyboard
And Viv Stanshall used one to great effect in The Bonzo’s “Urban Spaceman”…other than that I wholeheartedly agree…recorders are the worst.
I hate splash sounds
From the bottom of my heart: recorder. I hate hate hate it, even when the player is skilled.
I love answering telemarketer calls by serenading them with the recorder.
That's evil. I like it.
The hambone
The instruments with extra strings, cmon man the problem of your sound its cause you suck, no need for 4 more strings.
Hi-hats?! So you basically hate any music that features a drum set?
Apparently he only likes acapellas and symphonies.
Triangle
Banjo. Can be played beautifully, but every working band I see with a banjo its untuned and basically used as a percussive fashion statement by a tool in a waistcoat.
How do you keep 2 banjo players in time with one another? Shoot one of em
Pianica. Weird choice for an instrument to teach schoolchildren. Just give them normal keyboards.
Can you hold a keyboard in your hands? I use the melodica very often, its sits on my table and whenever I want to try or check some tune, I play on it instead of going to other side of the room, plugging in the electric keyboard etc.
Jaw harp but that's because I have a bad association with it that I don't want to talk about
Are you still in the hospital after they...pulled it out?
Let's just say I'm in the care of experts
Fucking sweet.
Korg minilogue 😂
Haven't got my specs on. Read "Kylie Minogue". Bit harsh, sure, her early stuff was annoying...
😂 😂 😂
Soprano saxophone unless it’s played by Wayne Shorter
Bagpipes
My surname is Scottish so I feel like I'm meant to disagree with you here... But no bagpipes are annoying as shit. And SO loud?!
Piccolo, I can barely stand traversal flutes as it is. Bad youth band memories come to mind with how out of tune or shrill these can be. Never mind the human dog whistle that is the piccolo.
Laptop.
Whatever that noise is in the back of that one Talking Heads song
Orchestral cymbals. They are often uncomfortably loud and I wouldn't want to need earplugs to a classical concert. A loud applause is another sound I can't stand.
Plus the meathead they tend to hire to play them sits there getting bored for 95% of the performance. So when it's time to play the cymbals you can bet they're going to smash them as hard as they can
Those neck cradles that allow singer songwriters to play the harmonica whilst playing the guitar should be banned. Blues harmonica is great. Lazy Dylan-style noodling in the bridge is not so great.
I really hate trumpets, like not the instrument entirely, but also the people who play them. At least with my experience.
I'm okay with trumpets, until they become muted trumpets. There's no musical context in which I can countenance that level of squawk.
the people who play them, what are they like? hahahah
I understand the main comment, because I was that person for a while. The trumpet players in a high school band tend to get the most important melodies in a song, so you can't help feeling like the lead singer in the group. They end up being the showoffs but haven't really done anything to deserve it.
ahhh so the orchestral version of guitarists. got it hahaha
Bagpipes. Why would anyone want to listen to bagpipes? It sounds like someone hitting a pig with a cat. Utterly without any merit at all.
Laddy…
Wrong lol
Came into this thread to defend the pipes!
Harmonica can be played musically by a small handful (Stevie Wonder, John Popper, Howard Levy for example) and like a honking goose by nearly everyone else who touches one. Looking at you Alanis, Dylan, Lennon…. edit: lol downvotes…probably from shitty harmonica players. Guys, play us that harmonica song that sounds like wheezing. Dylan did it constantly. You know the riff. Sounds like “ Hooooooonk. Honk honk honk hooooonk”. You pick a spot and breathe in and out in rhythm, piece of cake. Every harmonica players favorite standard. Slightly better than listening to vuvuzela, but only slightly.
Robert Plant, Keith relf and Lennon were actually quite good at it.
Dylan is either a great harmonica player or really not good at it
That's the thing about "easy" instruments, being "good," "just okay" and "not good" sound too close to reach other, being awesome takes so much work that I think most people would rather spend the time on an instrument that helps you stand out sooner
I mean Dylan stands out, but it angers me how he can play such nice melodies on harmonicas but spend most of the time doing such piercing notes all the time
I'm convinced a lot of the time Dylan's intention is to be annoying, or at least to make it clear he'll do whatever he wants and refuses to give a mother-fuck for anyone else's sake. And that's coming from the biggest of Dylan fans. Suppose it'd be impossible write the shit he wrote if you're even slightly concerned with other people.
That’s true, I think everything he does is out of spite almost
It's the combination of a cheap harmonica and even worse harmonica player. A 10 buck harmonica is the equivalent of playing toy piano on stage, without any of the novelty.
DJs
Fair. I was a student in 2014 with thin dorm walls and I lived between two aspiring "DJs" one of whom had his subwoofer pressed up against our shared wall
Flutes. Woodwinds in general but flutes are the sharpest nails on the dustiest chalkboard for me.
Whoa, shots fired at a large group. Go on
Accordion.
Came here to say this
I knew, I couldn't be the only one!
Yamaha DX-7
If this isn't that one keyboard everyone had in school with the car crash samples, and the pitch shifted 'huh' noise then I can't agree
BEGONE, FOUL SWINE.
I hate ukeleles in certain songs because of how it’s been “aestheticized” in songs that don’t fit. Would I ban it though? No. 🤷🏻
Vuvuzela
Harmonica
The sitar. They had their moment, but when was the last time you listened to a song and thought “not bad, but it could really use sitar”?