dopekitty74: i do however cling to the music of my late teens and early 20's as my favorite stuff though

I actively avoid listening to music I liked in my teens and twenties. I dread the thought of letting my tastes cement. I find it absolutely terrifying.

jaylectricity: John Buck 41: Seems like a silly question. This may be an apples/oranges angle (actually music/food) but if I eat something that doesn't taste good, why try it again? I know what I like/don't like. Same for a shiatty movie or poorly written book. Why watch/read it again?

There's a thing called "acquired taste" that shoots all kinds of holes in your theory. I didn't like spinach the first 50 times I tried it but now I think it's delicious.

You're right. The first 50 times I put my fingers under a rocking chair and rocked, it sucked. But now I think it feels great.

12349876: dopekitty74: It's disturbing how whenever i'm exposed to One Direction, I find myself headbobbing or tapping along with it, i do NOT like that shiat, but it's catchy....

This comment reminds me of the other thing you have to remember with music is the cultural/peer pressure that also plays a big role in liking or not liking something for certain people and joining or leaving certain influences could certainly help someone learn to like something.  I'll admit One Direction and Beiber and the like are catchy tunes and have good beats for dancing, but to me, it's bland and unimaginative, the lyrics are basic and juvenile, and there's no emotional impact.

That's pretty much the way I feel about it too. Also, I'm a metalhead going waaaaay back, so it's a pride thing for me too.

/first metal album Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry when I was 11
//have a brother who's 15 yrs older than me, so grew up listening to all sorts of classic rock on the big old floor model stereo with 8-tracks and K-tel mixed LPs and those awesome big headphones of the 70's

t3knomanser: dopekitty74: i do however cling to the music of my late teens and early 20's as my favorite stuff though

I actively avoid listening to music I liked in my teens and twenties. I dread the thought of letting my tastes cement. I find it absolutely terrifying.

The thought of never listening to the Guns n Roses Use Your Illusions albums ever again makes me want to die.

Fark Rye For Many Whores: How about D. N. Bieber subby? I've recently found out and i'm surprised I haven't heard of Definitely Not Bieber
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Is he going to buy a monkey and start dying his skin black next?

John Buck 41: jaylectricity: John Buck 41: Seems like a silly question. This may be an apples/oranges angle (actually music/food) but if I eat something that doesn't taste good, why try it again? I know what I like/don't like. Same for a shiatty movie or poorly written book. Why watch/read it again?

There's a thing called "acquired taste" that shoots all kinds of holes in your theory. I didn't like spinach the first 50 times I tried it but now I think it's delicious.

You're right. The first 50 times I put my fingers under a rocking chair and rocked, it sucked. But now I think it feels great.

Listening to music and eating spinach don't cause injuries.

t3knomanser: dopekitty74: i do however cling to the music of my late teens and early 20's as my favorite stuff though

I actively avoid listening to music I liked in my teens and twenties. I dread the thought of letting my tastes cement. I find it absolutely terrifying.

Ya know you can listen to your old favorites and still discover new ones...

jaylectricity: John Buck 41: jaylectricity: John Buck 41: Seems like a silly question. This may be an apples/oranges angle (actually music/food) but if I eat something that doesn't taste good, why try it again? I know what I like/don't like. Same for a shiatty movie or poorly written book. Why watch/read it again?

There's a thing called "acquired taste" that shoots all kinds of holes in your theory. I didn't like spinach the first 50 times I tried it but now I think it's delicious.

You're right. The first 50 times I put my fingers under a rocking chair and rocked, it sucked. But now I think it feels great.

Listening to music and eating spinach don't cause injuries.

What injuries? I didn't break or bruise my fingers. It just hurt. Like asparagus, brussel sprouts, parsnips, sweet potatoes, and blue cheese dressing hurt my taste buds. Or hurt the way shiatty music hurts my ears. No 'injuries', just an unpleasant sensation that I choose not to repeat.

mjones73: Ya know you can listen to your old favorites and still discover new ones...

But I'd still like the old things. That would be sad. I don't want to like the same things I used to like. I hope, in ten years, I don't like the things I like now.

John Buck 41: jaylectricity: John Buck 41: jaylectricity: John Buck 41: Seems like a silly question. This may be an apples/oranges angle (actually music/food) but if I eat something that doesn't taste good, why try it again? I know what I like/don't like. Same for a shiatty movie or poorly written book. Why watch/read it again?

There's a thing called "acquired taste" that shoots all kinds of holes in your theory. I didn't like spinach the first 50 times I tried it but now I think it's delicious.

You're right. The first 50 times I put my fingers under a rocking chair and rocked, it sucked. But now I think it feels great.

Listening to music and eating spinach don't cause injuries.

What injuries? I didn't break or bruise my fingers. It just hurt. Like asparagus, brussel sprouts, parsnips, sweet potatoes, and blue cheese dressing hurt my taste buds. Or hurt the way shiatty music hurts my ears. No 'injuries', just an unpleasant sensation that I choose not to repeat.

Listen, if you wanna live the rest of your life eating chicken nuggets and pizza, be my guest. Some things take time to appreciate.

You'll never learn to play guitar very well.

FuryOfFirestorm: jaylectricity: John Buck 41: Seems like a silly question. This may be an apples/oranges angle (actually music/food) but if I eat something that doesn't taste good, why try it again? I know what I like/don't like. Same for a shiatty movie or poorly written book. Why watch/read it again?

There's a thing called "acquired taste" that shoots all kinds of holes in your theory. I didn't like spinach the first 50 times I tried it but now I think it's delicious.

Here's a better analogy: I didn't like Brussels sprouts (rap) because it was often served to me over-boiled, mushy and tasteless (Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer) but after I had them roasted with bacon (Eminem, Jay-Z), I really like them now.

Fair argument. I will cave in a little (a VERY little) on the 'acquired taste' argument. My Mom used to cook the hell out of liver. Overdone, dried-out gritty shoe leather. Now that I know how to properly cook it, I love it. So there is, in fact, the rare exception to the rule. In my case, however, it only applies to the occasional food item. Music/books/movies? Nope.

Newsflash: Your tastes change over time and the reasons are many.
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Because critics and fans made such a big deal about them, I've tried and tried again to get into Converge but just can't.
And I usually dig Mathcore.

strangeluck: JasonOfOrillia: I used to hate country music but then my girlfriend left me and she took the dog.

Did she scratch her name into your car and defile your tractor to?

No but she did spell "Fark U" in the snow in front of the house in urine.  She did it standing up.

/Never made love with the lights on.

There is a lot of music that I love on a personal level but it is very annoying when trying to listen to it in a social setting. I love jazz, I play jazz piano, I listen to jazz on my own and make sounds like "unh" or "yeah" at the appropriate times of musical release. Sometimes I even laugh. I get it. But when listening to it with people who don't appreciate jazz, the tension drives me nuts because I know the other listeners rarely "get" those moments of release that are so necessary to the genre and the effect it has on them really chaps at me. High soul singers, same deal (I'm looking at you Lenny Williams and James Brown).

I'm also very into 80's synthpop and there's plenty that is well-known and saccharine enough that it sits well in a social setting, but some of it that I love sounds dated and cheesy and makes younger listeners uncomfortable and, hence, me too.

Personally, I try to like Bob Dylan, but there is very little of his catalog that I can get into. Same goes for a lot of older folk singers, actually.

Also, metal I cannot get into. Sometimes a little is okay - I like System of a Down because there is space and dynamics  in their music, but the really hard stuff is just guitar sweep-pick or 8-string distorted wankery to me.

Smeggy Smurf: The more I hear modern pop country the more I like the outlaws

Which ones? These?

 

Or these?



The latter is a good album. The former is AWESOME.

Sorry Hipsters, but saying it's a "Post Hip Hop Metal Quadraphonic New Age Revival" band won't get me to listen to something that sounds like an elephant raping a cat!

/seriously though, I do have a personal rule that "Even if I don't like the band, if I like the song, than I like the song."
//it has to be LISTENABLE though!
///that rule will backfire on me one day if I find a boy band song I like!

Canton: Somacandra: jake_lex: I think this is very true of "avant-garde" music: I mean, the first time I heard some of Schoenberg's twelve-tone stuff, it just sounded like noise to me. Then I learned a little music theory, and at least I knew what it was trying to do.

SNIP

I tried. I really did. But I am almost over that headache, so...

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Tapiola, a tone poem by Jean Sibelius, isn't quite as challenging as, um, whatever drug-induced noise/music Yoko Ono was attempting there, but it still takes some getting used to. Worth it, though.

I may be too late but, thank you for the link it has wiped out all the other noises posted here.

ciberido: If we're just going for the "freaky music" category,

That's not bad, or anything, but it still has a beat and notes. I certainly wouldn't call that "freaky", it's basic darkwave/downtempo EBM. Is downtempo EBM a thing? It should be.