>repetitive vocal samples, especially when they're pushed to the forefront of the mix >rock bands playing parts in unison >dopey "classic rock" guitar work >when a song is booking along nicely with propulsive drumming and guitar work and then slows the tempo down to some crappy, plodding riff that sounds like a bucket of diarrhea I'm looking at you, "Rusty Cage." >rock vocalists that imitate old negro bluesmen >guitar strings squeaking >clicky double-bass drumming, wimpy drums in general >songs focused more on lyrics or furthering some gimmicky concept than creating a solid piece of music

I could be here all day, but I'll stick to just 5 things off the top of my head that really get on my tits: >fade-outs Just make a proper fucking ending, even if you just suddenly cut to a crash cymbal or a reverb tail or something, anything but a lazy fucking fade-out. >overusage of sidechain compression / turning up the kick so loud that everything else audibly ducks when it hits I've hated this nauseating sound ever since it came in fashion in the early to mid 00s, it honestly makes me feel sick. It only ever makes things sound worse, I don't get why anyone does it. >ADHD hi-hats doing 32nd note autism Nigger please stop that shit, your "beat" isn't "sick" just because you went full parkinson's on the hats. >wonky beats / early/late kicks/snares It doesn't sound good or make you sound cool, it just sounds out of time and like you don't know how to trim the silence from your drum samples. >shitty breakdown cliches: pitched 808 snare rolls, sweeps out the ass, synths rising in pitch, the bit at the end where everything drops out except for some dumb vocal line, coming back in with just the kick and a shitty synth patch It got old a decade ago, dump that shit the same place you put your autotune abuse and the word "shorty".

>>257 >vid related nigger everyone

>>257 I'm tired of looking up DAW-related videos and coming across these clueless hip-hop "producers" who think everything is a "beat."

When a soul or pop song has a cut-in from another genre - I don't want to be listening to a sad song about the depressing life of an impoverished mother and then have R-N-T REAL NIGGA TYRONE cut in to talk about big butts & club whores. Composers who use synth without exploring the diversity of genre that's afforded to you when you don't need to buy new instruments for every style of music, so all their shit sounds the same because they're just remixing the same ten sounds into entire albums since the synth doesn't have any variability unless you make the sound variable yourself. Overmixing the strings so I can't make out the lyrics and moving my bass knob doesn't help because it doesn't affect the strings or the lyrics. Songs where the opening is so loud I need to turn my speakers down before it even starts so it doesn't hurt my ears. Songs that are more sample than original work but don't credit the sources for their samples, even when all the samples are from one or two other songs.