The more I hone my own ideas as a musician/composer, I'm finding that the list of peeves is becoming quite stacked. Just about anything that can be done in music potentially has a place, so I tend to understand these peeves as simply antithetical to my own values in what I'm working to create, while there's some cushion of space around them - I realize they exist for constructive reasons inside my own capsule, but I can accept the offending elements in their native context... Anyway, one of the major ones ongoing for some time now is what I might call 'linearity'. It's also wrapped up with 'bodiliness' to some degree. Much of modern popular music across different idioms, whatever the surface characteristics, when you peel back to the form, seems to be built on repeatable chunks, often creating an overall grid-like effect, rather often based on the pervasive and continuous beat. The presence of a grid pulse, probably being described by a constant drumkit, around which everything else is built, structures that resolve neatly, an overall linearity with forms that may or may not feel like they develop from one to the next, pervasive emphasis on feeling a propulsive, constant rhythm, often in one time sig, usually at one tempo throughout. I definitely love plenty of music that fits this bill, and take a good deal on as influence, but I've been feeling peeved at the prevalence of this in the music of our time. I'm increasingly drawn to 'classical' forms in composition - not necessarily the surface qualities of what most people think of as classical music but the underlying approach to form - the music is allowed to develop naturally over time, each figure is expressive in its own specific way, allowed to have its own character of rhythm and dynamic, whose underlying rhythmic skeleton doesn't necessarily need to be spelled out by a defined beat, not being constructed of sections ie verse, chorus, bridge, that repeat or chunk one to the next...