Your personal taste, what does it actually mean?

Snow Dog wrote: Revan wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Revan wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Revan wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: Revan wrote: Well i would parallel it (if such a verb exists) with an answering machine, a one way message that leaves an impression to the listener, depending on his interpretation of the message. An answering machine uses words and only tells you to leave a message, this analogy makes no sense. It wouldn't be an analogy if it was the exact same thing, would it? An analogy has to make sense and actually be an analogy though. ok if now 2 people think it didn't make scense then it must have been so My bad then, the important thing is that you understand what i was trying to say. Not sure i do. Well at the moment the artist writes a song, what he is doing is ordering sound based on their current state of mood, and what they have to say. That same ordered sound is received by some random person. If that person can identify with the content of the music, then there's a like, if not, not. Sounds kinda obvious. Are you saying that someone writes a song and someone else might like it and someone might not?

No but i can see why you would think that.

I mean someone writes a song and someone else might like it if he can identify his own feelings, thoughts and maybe even values in it, i don't think it's just random...

Snow Dog wrote: Revan wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Revan wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: Revan wrote: Well i would parallel it (if such a verb exists) with an answering machine, a one way message that leaves an impression to the listener, depending on his interpretation of the message. An answering machine uses words and only tells you to leave a message, this analogy makes no sense. It wouldn't be an analogy if it was the exact same thing, would it? An analogy has to make sense and actually be an analogy though. ok if now 2 people think it didn't make scense then it must have been so My bad then, the important thing is that you understand what i was trying to say. Not sure i do.

Well at the moment the artist writes a song, what he is doing is ordering sound based on their current state of mood, and what they have to say. That same ordered sound is received by some random person. If that person can identify with the content of the music, then there's a like, if not, not.


Edited by Revan - September 22 2010 at 09:16

Snow Dog wrote: Revan wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: Revan wrote: Well i would parallel it (if such a verb exists) with an answering machine, a one way message that leaves an impression to the listener, depending on his interpretation of the message. An answering machine uses words and only tells you to leave a message, this analogy makes no sense. It wouldn't be an analogy if it was the exact same thing, would it? An analogy has to make sense and actually be an analogy though.

ok if now 2 people think it didn't make scense then it must have been so My bad then, the important thing is that you understand what i was trying to say.

tuxon wrote: men tend to try and match their acquisitions with those who are higher in social hierarchy.[6] In terms of taste and modern consumption this means that taste is formed in a process in of emulation: people emulate each other, which creates certain habits and preferences, which in turn contributes to consumption of certain preferred goods.   above comes from the wiki link previous in this thread.   So by becomming member of a website like this our taste will shift towards more progressive music in order to beter belong to this web-society. etc. so being aroud prog-heads results in becoming a proghead by association and emulating each others tastes.

This is a way of explain the subject, but i don't think that my love of progressive music depends completely on the influence of people in a higher social hierarchy. I didn't  listen to prog music to be accepted by the prog society.

Gerinski wrote: One of the fascinating characteristics that you find in many proggers (although certainly not all) is versatility, I can happily switch from the softest Renaissance to DT, to jazz-rock, to KC or VDGG, to old Genesis / Yes / ELP, to crossover, to Jesus Christ Superstar, to Oldfield to the Enid to Ayreon to classical music to Steve Vai to Bowie and the list would be so long and embracing such a wide diversity of styles, including even more modern interpretations of prog such as from the Mars Volta to GSY!BE to the Cardiacs. You do not find this versatility of music taste in most people out of the prog environment.   This suggests that indeed what we appreciate above all is certain qualities in music rather than certain styles.   Having said that, I'm a symphonic old fart and even if I love a lot of other music and I try to be open and listen to new and different things, I have to admit that I always end up concluding that still nothing fulfills me like the classic symphonic and eclectic prog.

Yes, i think you have nailed down something interesting here : "Versatility". You can enjoy a lot of different genres in the progressive rock and also in other genres of music. That's what keep the music experience enjoyable. You always find something new to avoid boredom. I realise over the years that to be able to enjoy my symphonic music, i need to listen to something different. And also i think it can pursue a need to experience different kind of emotions, moods.

Very good question. It must be because i want give a answer

Even if there is some different genre on the progressive world and that some people don't like bands that others likes, i think there is a common taste in all progressive music independent of any personal taste. This is a taste for something complex, more challenging then pop music. This music require more effort to be appreciate. If i have listened to more symphonic music then avant-garde or space rock music is rather a matter of choice than a matter of taste. I don't have time to explore and buy all the music in all different prog genres. It is difficult for me to explain why some people prefer some type of progressive music over some other, some bands over others. That why we can close the discussion, by saying, it's a matter of taste. But this answer doesn't satisfy me.

Many years ago I watched a TV show with a number of pop artists and deciding who was the worst was very difficult. There was something chemical in my blood that came from my lung so I watched the whole show.

Revan wrote: Catcher10 wrote: If ur in a good mood then all music is good, if ur in a bad mood then all music sucks.....Its up to ur own personal taste as to whether u are in a good mood or bad mood. I have to disagree here, as there is music that can completely ruin a good day. If you've been in Uruguay long enough i bet you've heard of a little thing called cumbia villera?

Yes...but again depends on your own mood how you let this music affect you, in the streets....but a little wine can help too

Henry Plainview wrote: Revan wrote: Well i would parallel it (if such a verb exists) with an answering machine, a one way message that leaves an impression to the listener, depending on his interpretation of the message. An answering machine uses words and only tells you to leave a message, this analogy makes no sense.

It wouldn't be an analogy if it was the exact same thing, would it?

Well i would parallel it (if such a verb exists) with an answering machine, a one way message that leaves an impression to the listener, depending on his interpretation of the message.