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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2010 at 13:04
Originally posted by paganinio paganinio wrote:

you have to be in certain moods to enjoy an album

To me, the moods for Jimi Hendrix are close to the moods for Zeppelin, but I can't listen to Ayreon in the same moods

Mood and timing also play a factor in whether or not you get into something new to you.  You weren't actually asking me to explain were you?
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 652 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2010 at 02:53
Why do you need to explain everything??
Taste is like religion. It needs NO justification at all.
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Points: 8 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2010 at 06:16
Totally agree with mono. Music-devotees are people of belief, rather than people of reason. Though, psychologist might have explained it already, what attracts us all to different genres. My experience shows that most IT and Engineering guys are rock - prog-rock listeners. And vice versa =)

I guess for me passion for prog comes from the passion for complex structures and hierarchies.
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^ Interesting, that must be why our server is always down at work - the IT department is staffed with touchy feely dreamers Geek
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2010 at 08:49
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

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

They can't come and sort any problems out until Close To The Edge ( or similar lengthy piece) finishes anyway.
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Points: 23 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2010 at 09:24

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

That's the only explanation I can ever give.
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Points: 11420 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2010 at 09:33
^ 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 ?Confused
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2010 at 09:45
Originally posted by ExittheLemming 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 ?Confused
I know what you mean. If I like something that he doesn't it makes what I listen to "bad music"
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2010 at 10:07
It's not your job to justify something you like to someone else. If you like it, then that is all the justification YOU need to listen to it. What does it matter if others can't understand what you see in it?

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f**k them if they don't understand you. ( my wife undersands me, I hope )
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming 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 ?Confused
 
The point, more or less, is that we all, individually, only play/listen to music that we consider "good." Whatever way we choose to measure what is "good" is completely subjective, but it is still "good" so far as the subject is concerned. I may consider some music "bad" but I don't care if another person listens to it.  The point is that our tastes are subjective, and the quote reemphasizes that I play/listen to what I like and don't feel the need to justify my preferences. If someone asks why I like something, I can say because it's good. You can disagree/agree if you like, but, to me, it's still good.   
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2010 at 10:17
I remember how frustrating it was when I was 15, trying to get some of my friends to understand why I liked Rush so much. It turned out that the reasons I thought they were the best band in the world, were exactly the same reasons they all thought they were the worst band in the world.
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Points: 72 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2010 at 17:24
I think a lot of it goes back to what you were into as a younger person - for instance listening to the Mahavishnu Orchestra when I a lad really shaped the music i enjoyed as an adult (not fashionable when all your mates are into Nirvana I can tell ya)
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Points: 18071 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2010 at 17:52
Hi,
 
We could get really deep into this, but I am not sure that it is going to help.
 
As time goes by, and you get older, the first thing you will notice is how some groups that you liked in your teens, all of a sudden you don't in your 30's and 40's. And if you like finding out why, you will notice that some reasons were social, some were personal, and the others ... you had a chance to go out with that girl! ... and in the end, a lot of it loses its meaning.
 
Music like most arts, are only valuable when they touch you deeper and further than we know or understand, as they will leave enough residue behind for you to learn something about it ... that is of course, unless you are not interested in these things, and you don't care ... which some people don't.
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2010 at 18:22
I did lose interest in some stuff I did like before I became a prog nut.  Even stuff like Kraftwerk which is officially prog around here.  I was into Wakeman around the same time.  I'm just going to have to admit that I can't explain.  LOL
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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I'm with mono...
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2010 at 01:55
Originally posted by Pelata Pelata wrote:

I'm with mono...

Since i moved to stereo I never looked back.

I'm a bit tired of you audiophiles and your "mono is better" arguments.
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Points: 652 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2010 at 03:27
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Pelata Pelata wrote:

I'm with mono...

Since i moved to stereo I never looked back.

I'm a bit tired of you audiophiles and your "mono is better" arguments.


I hope that's a joke LOL
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2010 at 03:34
Originally posted by mono mono wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Pelata Pelata wrote:

I'm with mono...

Since i moved to stereo I never looked back.

I'm a bit tired of you audiophiles and your "mono is better" arguments.


I hope that's a joke LOL

But of course!Tongue
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