What are pieces everyone else likes that you don't?

12 minutes ago, Noah Brode said:

Someone before said Hans Zimmer's music, and I second that 100%. Very overrated, in my opinion. 

Of course, most pop music too, but I assume we're mostly talking about art music / concert music pieces.

I will say I often get fairly bored when listening to pre-Baroque / Renaissance / medieval music. To me, it's more of a history lesson than something I actually enjoy.

 

I like Zimmer's soundtracks.  For what they are, they generally work well as music for films. perhaps my standards are lower in that context.  I'll admit I find the Gladiator soundtrack very catchy.

In my opinion, the finest example of a soundtrack in regards to both popular appeal and high degree of originality and quality of music in their own right is Bear McCreary's music for the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series.  Not a single mediocre track in the lot.

12 hours ago, Monarcheon said:

What do you mean by this? Music with no chromaticism?

yes music that stays in a single key the whole song

18 hours ago, Austenite said:

I seriously believe I can never get tired of Tchaikovsky - but honestly I have to switch from one piece to another, and perhaps find something I haven't heard before from him (don't take me back to 1812!)

I don't particularly like 1812, but if there is one piece that everyone else likes and I don't, it's Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending!

11 minutes ago, aMusicComposer said:

but if there is one piece that everyone else likes and I don't, it's Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending!

Yes, a thousand times yes

1 hour ago, Left Unexplained said:

yes music that stays in a single key the whole song

 

Do you consider the other minor modes (harmonic, melodic) chromaticism?