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Merkava:

--- Quote from: saturnine1979 ---intelligence and creativity.

I'd say those are the two most common factors among the music I listen to.

I like music with well written lyrics. I like interesting song structures.
I like music with emotion. Not shitty "emo", real emotion. I don't care for a lot of 'angry' music (although I like DFA1979, QOSA, Deftones, etc.). I generally prefer indie pop, indie folk, or lap-pop. I like guitars. I don't like cock-rock. I can't stand vagueness and cliches in lyrics.

That's just ranting though... It's hard to say what really draws me to the music I like.
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I agree with most of that, though I'm not exactly sure what lap-pop is. :P

Well, most of the stuff I listen to is alive. It's not straight and rigid like cock-rock would be. the music I like is messy, it's moving, it's textured. I guess that's what keeps me to the jingle-jangle of Indie rock. Sure, I'll enjoy a good, hard metal riff, but only for a few seconds before it gets tiring. It has to move, it has to change.

I also like beauty. It doesn't always have to be pretty beauty like Death Cab/The Postal Service. And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead (at least up until their most recent album) is a great example of the band that falls into this category. It's beauty in pure emotion.

saturnine1979:
Merkava: The Postal Service is lap-pop. It's another name for IDM I believe. It's like electronic-indie-pop...or something.


Handclaps make everything better.
"Stars And Sons". mmmmmmmm

Merkava:
Oh, so it wasn't a coincidence that I originally read it as "lap-top". :P

KharBevNor:
...In what universe does metal stay still? It's too busy punching you in the face over and over again and making love to your spouse to stay still.

La Creme:
And sodomizing your pets Khar! Don't forget that one... (Fucking an Animal is the funniesr Gwar song ever. Ever.)

I listen to everything because I think that there is so much life to live and not nearly enough time to live it all, so you might as well get in what you can while you can. All the music i listen to I like for different reasons, but I think the two never-fail rules I run by are that (1) The music has to be either original or so beautifully stereotypical of a genre that it becomes unique in and of its self and (2) The musicians seem to care about what they are playing.

PS: Merkava, if you want metal that changes a lto, listen to the Liquid Tension Experiment song "Paradigm Shift", then check out "Biaxident", then "When The Water Breaks". It's really prog, but whateva.

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