How Do You Explain...?

ExittheLemming wrote: ^ Why do you assume that what you like has some sort of objective verifiable merit that what you don't like doesn't? I'm not having a go at you here but there are millions of posts like this on PA which appear to say something like this: If I quote a celebrated musician stating their preferences as fact it makes my own tastes objective and therefore justified. I mean it's bollocks ain't it ?

To paraphrase Louis Armstrong, "there are only two types of music. The good and the bad. I (play/listen to) the good kind.

^ Interesting, that must be why our server is always down at work - the IT department is staffed with touchy feely dreamers 

Why do you need to explain everything??
Taste is like religion. It needs NO justification at all.

Brain chemistry?  Whimsy?  My completely inappropriate physical response to Hammond organs?

I AM an obscurity nut, that much I will confess.  But as to why prog ate my brain...it was a gradual process, much like a symbiotic infection.  Progressive rock makes me feel very warm and content and excited and dynamic; listening to it is essentially like a mouse repeatedly pressing the pleasure button.

michellemjk wrote: I think only your subconscious self knows the answer.

Which means you should probably go to sleep and try to remember whatever your mind does while you are sleeping.

moshkito wrote: Hi,   Gotta give Snow Dog some credit here ... he has empty space in his reply (it's what I can see from here) and it is just about the size I needed to explain it ... but decided ... that the best reply is already there.   Well done Snow ... yeah ... sometimes silence is golden!

Manuel wrote: To me, it comes down to only only little thing:"You like it because you like it", it appeals to you and it satisfies your taste, emotions, fulfills you, etc. you don't need a specific reason to like something, music in this case, and certainly don't need to explain it, nor does anybody else. I guess is part of being human.

The answer should lie in all the (3,)4 and 5 star reviews on this site

Edited by kenethlevine - October 15 2010 at 16:07

To me, it comes down to only only little thing:"You like it because you like it", it appeals to you and it satisfies your taste, emotions, fulfills you, etc.