[Blarg]

Can't think of an instrument that is all or nothing like that. I often don't like the sax in pop music because it is slipped in as an easy sort of false cool, and the riffs are often juvenile and predictable. You get a "Wow, I'm listening to a saxophone!" vibe in songs still that doesn't fly for, say, an electric guitar in rock music, except maybe heavy metal, where there is a lot of, "Wow, this is a guitar!" sound.

So I like the sax, I just don't like to be hit over the head with it or patronized by it. Unfortunately, in a lot of pop music, you can almost guarantee one or both of the latter.