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How do others respond to your musical taste?
El Opium:
My stepdad is by far the biggest complainer. Some of his responses:
Sonic Youth-"Is your stereo broken?"
Wolf Eyes-"Is that randomly generated?"
Sunn 0))-"can you turn that down its making the house shake"
Charalambides-"That kinda sounds like an air raid siren"
I hate people who use the why listen to them if they're not succesful argument.
Robbo:
You're playing Sunn O))) and only making YOUR house shake? Cleary not loud enough as it should make making the people next door feel it as well. Share the love man, share the love.
I enjoy playing stuff like Khanate and Axis of Perdition to get questions like "Doesn't that make your ears bleed or something?"
amok:
Hell, Sunn O))) should set off earthquake warning systems in neighbouring countries. Turn it up!
muffy:
My mum is also a rather keen critic - things like 'God, can you turn that off? It's just that I'm trying to eat and it sounds like he's vomitting into the microphone'
and 'He's not a very good singer, though, is he?'. The last one was about Jeff Buckley.
But seriously, the more time I spend in clubs, the more people I have talking to me who think my music taste is cool. Just because I play stuff like Bloc Party and Razorlight doesn't mean I like them...I mean, jeez, standards, people.
Then they find out what I really like, and they kind of laugh in my face and mock me to their scene friends.
I think I've deliberately started liking really terrible bands simply so that I don't indulge in those self congratulating 'oh, you have cool taste in music too' conversations whereby nothing gets said other than to knock up scene points and kudos.
Robbo:
Your mother is clearly a very insightful person given that comment about Jeff.
My mum is still more worried that I listen to Iron Maiden than any form of Brutal Death Metal or NSBM. That or she's deathly afraid of the extreme stuff I listen to.
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