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Poll Question: How Important is Music Taste in Making a Friend
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2 [5.56%]
5 [13.89%]
17 [47.22%]
12 [33.33%]
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2006 at 14:44
Doesn't really matter that much, though of course it's nice to share musical tastes with friends. For me, though, it's probably more important to share other things, such as cultural interests and worldview.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2006 at 15:10
It is not important because music isn't the only thing you can have similar points of contact in relation with passions...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:32
I think it is important. I only know two other people (in real life) who like prog, and they're my two best friends.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:05
haha it doesnt matter cause you can convert them. my best bud used to listen to garbage like foo fighters, soad, thrice, but now ive converted him to pink floyd, yes, king crimson, tmv, fot, and his favorite; jazz rock/fusion. the kids obsessed over weather report and brand x. i need to get him on mahavishnu
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:19
Not important, but I have plenty of friends into great music. And no one I know are into any really awful stuff, but some are just not very musicinterested. A person's music taste is obviously a part of their personality, so I can't imagine being a close friend with someone into just Nu-Metal.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:41
It doesn't matter, because if I cared I wouldn't have many friends. I have converted a friend or two and became frustrated with a kid who just listens to the crappy pop radio stations, but it still doesn't matter.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:49
It's quite important.
In my life very often the interest in music turned to friendship.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2006 at 20:30
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by cuncuna cuncuna wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

It only matters when they LOVE a repulsive form of music and they shove it in my face.

    

¿Reggaeton, perhaps?...
 
Nah, I'm fine with raggae, R&B (I even like the Roots a bit), old school 80s-early 90s rap (when it was still kind of fresh), but screaming emo bands and hardcore new rap is just offensive to my ears.


I like Reggae and I can tolerate R&B quite nicely, but reggaeton is a totaly different story. I can listen to it on parties and such, but 90% of the people in Puerto Rico (the 10% being old people, deaf people and people who like other genres preferably salsa and merengue *sigh*) listen to that stuff. Almost every car have reggaeton playing loud so others can hear the same thing over and over again...


Enough of that for now. I really don't mind about my friends liking my music since only 2 of them enjoy what I listen to.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2006 at 21:54
in my experience is not THAT important, despite the closer ones have some common tastes with me, others listen to sh*t and horrible music, so , i`d like to have friends who likes prog... but here.. is not easy... so i voted not important...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2006 at 23:36
Can be helpfull making new friends, but its not important.

My old friends like most of the popular music of today and they are still my friends.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2006 at 08:21
Originally posted by AtLossForWords AtLossForWords wrote:



I actually have the most intresting conversations with friends about everything but music.




I actually have the most interesting conversations with friends about music. Wink

Some of my friends really like prog.

One loves King Crimson, Wobbler and likes Gentle Giant, Emerson, Lake And Palmer, Gargamel and Yes.

Another loves Opeth, Gentle Giant and Emerson, Lake And Palmer and likes Yes, Wobbler, King Crimson and The Flower Kings.

Another loves Opeth.

Two friends of mine (girls, I just want to say that because it is said that women don't like prog) listen to Prog.

One loves The Mars Volta, Sigur Ros and Muse and likes Porcupine Tree and Radiohead.

The other one loves Genesis and likes Yes, Emerson, Lake And Palmer and Gentle Giant...

And I know several people who like prog either, those guys listen to Radiohead, The Mars Volta, Pink Floyd, Yes etc...
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