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Tehz:
In my entire life, I have met less than half a dozen people that have the same taste as music in person. And for about half of them, I introduced them to a lot of the bands.
*sigh* It sucks living in a town filled with "hardcore" kids and wannabe gangsters.
mfpole:
Yeah man, high school sux.
I did write a Deerhoof and Menomena review for my school paper though. Of course, I did have to put a part that said "Yes, these bands DO actually exist."
Garmr:
I think most towns are like that. At the University I attend, it's mostly rap (which I can tolerate and even listen to on occasion) and Fall Out Boy. I've only met a few people who listen/like metal (Go figure, a metal head referencing a Nordic figure) and even fewer who listens to my favorite band.
KvP:
With most of my close friends, I've been able to at least get them to appreciate what I like. But most people don't like what I like. Part of it is that I like music that isn't terribly accessible, and part of it is that I listen to some music that isn't really all that great in the first place (see avatar). Plus my favorite genres, industrial and IDM, have been in a pretty serious decline since their 90's peak.
I actually have the opposite problem to what it seems like everybody else is experiencing. I have friends that are more into what's popular, everybody does, and they're the people I can easily bend to my particular tastes, but I also have friends who I'm sure would feel right at home here in the QC music forum, and they generally seem to know much more about current music than I do. It's slow going catching up, as I'm fairly inexperienced and it takes me awhile to absorb new music (I'm one of those people that listens to a new album for a couple of weeks before really starting to get a feel for it). So I'm just now starting to bend my ear towards Menomena and Pinback and whatever else, but some of my friends are way ahead of me, they probably always will be, and I likely embarrass them just as all of your musically ignorant friends embarrass you.
But still, it's damned irritating whenever my friends would rather listen to Modest Mouse instead of ambient music, and I have never met anyone outside of the internet who appreciates Autechre or Boards of Canada as much as I seem to.
MusicScribbles:
Man, there is nothing wrong with IDM at all. If you listen to that and they listen to Menomena, I would say you're ahead of them (Not that I have anything against Menomena. I don't.)
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