Your personal taste, what does it actually mean?

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?

Catcher10 wrote: 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

Maybe so, i still can't find a corelation between my mood and appreciation of music, for example dancing with the moonlit knight moves me when i'm feeling happy, blue, angry, bored, drunk, or cheerful with little difference

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?

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.

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.

This sums up my feelings on the topic:

"I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional."  -  Jerry Garcia

This is what it comes down to.  Music elicits an emotional response in people. Emotion is a very personal thing (though it can be shared, in some situations), hence musical appreciation is a very personal thing.  Of course, there is the aspect of appreciating the technique of a player, or the compositional skill of a writer.  But even there, it is a personal preference issue, as not everyone appreciates complexity or simplicity (and everything in between applies here as well).

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.

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.

Edited by Snow Dog - September 22 2010 at 09:20

^^Ok.....I think I understand.

I am brought up with a classical musical background, I sang in several choirs, played in a baroque flute ensemble, and play several instruments (not very well, but enough for 'home' usage).
I like listening to classical music ('classical' is used in a wider sense, that means european compositional music from early renaissance to modern times, roughly from Palestrina to Stockhausen). And I like rock music which is influenced by this kind of music.
I like it, if a rock music song resembles in structure this compositional 'classical music', in terms of:
- sophisticated construction with beginning, middle part, ending
- dynamic, tempo and rhythmical changes
- polyphonic and contrapuntal structures in melody
- extended harmonies with chromatic chord shifting and triad breaking
- unusual usage of instruments (a recorder next to an E-guitar is cool!)

So that is why I like the music I find in PA!



Edited by Formentera Lady - September 22 2010 at 10:38