Who on this forum got the best music tast

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Wow. A lot of time has passed since I last saw this thread ... nearly two years. I guess that taste is something that can't be argued about ... nevertheless I find it curious that many people in this thread simply name people which have a similar taste to their own.

Human nature...

I'd find it far more curious if many people in this thread named people with tastes dissimilar to their own.  "Even though I personally find the bands so and so likes sucky, I think that so and so has great musical taste" (as an extreme).

Taste is subjective, therefore we're far more likely to name those who share similar tastes (for me, I identify most with those who appreciate Zeuhl, Canterbury, RIO-type music, and certain classic Prog Folk groups, as well as various jazzy bands, and since, for me, my taste in music is good, well...).

That said, my tastes are expanding, and in trying to choose people I'd want to project to plot my future musical appreciation/ growth.  Some have beene more advanced than me (knew more and their tastes have progressed beyong mine but following a similar evolutionary path, I think).

I consider my taste in progressive music better than three years ago as I've experienced so much music in that time (and now consider a lot of music that I once thought fantastic to be, well, inferior or less sophisticated.  As we listen to more we become more sophisticated musically).  I expect that I will move on from much that I hold in very high esteem now.

Going back twenty years, I loved Led Zeppelin, but now it bores me.  At the time I would have thought a Zep fan had great taste (at least in rock, according to my taste).  Tastes evolve, or devolve in some cases.  I went back to Prog for nostalgic reasons but discovered a lot of different types of great music under the Prog umbrella that I was unfamiliar with.

But I don't consider myself to have great taste objectively.  I grew up with classical and moved to jazz when I hit my twenties.  The classical music (to use the term more generally) I loved I still hold in the highest esteem even if I listen to different modern types of music more now.  I still think Prog inferior in some respects to other types of music even if I love it.  I do think that someone who would rather go see, for instance, the Tallis Scholars in concert has better taste than someone who would rather listen to the Backstreet Boys.

Well, Andu, I'm already regretting my Zep comment (once a Zephead, always a Zephead to an extent).  It came across as too strong as I was woken up really early and still feeling a little dazed and confused.  I imagine I'll always like Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti, for instance, to an extent, not to mention the too much maligned, in my opinion, In Through the Out Door, but "Rock & Roll" is a horrible song!!!

Pink Floyd was my favourite band for years, yet now I'm just not into it much.

Incidentally, Andu, congrats on the promotion!

I'm a Zep head too!!

Long Live Zeppelin and Zep heads!

Andu, I'm sorry to hear that you have issues.