Immediate Ruination of New Music?

I am a bit more careful about calling vocals "bad". yes, there often is some unusual singing and you go "wtf?" at first. this even happened to me with VdGG (the first album I heard of them was "Godbluff", and I went "wtf?" about the rasp whispering at the beginning), but this is nothing that will deter me forever; I just have to get used to this unusual vocal delivery (you should hear what strange things BaldFriede does with her voice; it would probably make many people dislike the two albums of the Bald Angels immediately)

I didn't like Indian and Mexican food on first acquaintance (in Glasgow, Scotland) but now I love them both (burp). How can a person's musical appreciation grow unless they are exposed to an external stimulus that is initially foreign to them BUT which will clearly take take time to be assimilated? Have you heard of a self fulfilling prophecy? If what does not please you on first acquaintance you consider BAD then you are clearly a myopic self righteous cretin.

BaldJean wrote: wiz_d_kidd wrote: BaldJean wrote: ...but this is nothing that will deter me forever; I just have to get used to this unusual vocal delivery Why would you try to get used to something that doesn't please you?  There is SO much music out there.  The "New Prog Releases" blog alone lists 1000-1500 new prog albums every year.  If an album doesn't capture my attention and sound pleasing to me from the onset, I move on.  There is lots more to choose from. you misunderstand me. these unusual vocal styles don't really displease me, they merely irritate me, like anything that is new. by your approach you would have to reject anything new if it doesn't immediately please you. if you are used to a certain can opener and get a new one that looks and works quite differently you would be irritated too. but would you really reject this new can opener for this reason? I doubt it. so why do it with a new vocal style?

OK, peace.  If I "might" like something, especially something completely new, I certainly do give it a chance.  I listen to new music almost daily.  If, when I listen to it, I know that I absolutely don't like it, I move on.  I don't like thrash metal... not matter how many times I'm exposed to it, and I'm not going to subject myself to that irritation in the hopes that I might like it some day.  It's not about something being new (or bad, as ExittheLemming thinks I am implying)... it's about disliking something, and being certain about it, and moving on.  Certain things trigger that "absolute dislike" button of mine.