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Merkava:

--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---Sorry, but I still don't get how you tell the difference between someone showing restraint, and someone showing little ability.

Anyway, that seemed like a tertiary criticism, as Robbo seemed to be more commenting on their uninspiredness.

Also, form != function. Any style of music can be used to convey any emotion, almost. It just takes a bit of know-how.

And also, that was just a minor example to illustrate why Robbo thought up this topic. To take his topic as discredited because he doesn't like your favourite band is petty, immature and dumb.

Anyway, lets get back on topic.

I do my best not to listen to stuff I don't like. I find that it normally tends to irritate me, especially if I'm tired.
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No. I never said the topic was discredited, only that he was to me. Like I said, I can deal with him not liking them, but he used things like "they have no musical ability" and "boring and uninspired" to hate on them, which I thought was stupid and immature because it seemed like he was grasping at straws. If he had just said "I didn't like it" or "the type of playing didn't really appeal to me" than I would understand. Honestly, I've calmed down since then. I understand that you don't like Indie, it's just that it set off my BS detector when you try and pass it off like it's fact.

The Plan was groundbreaking, man.

@ Khar: It's basically the difference between George Harrison and, say, Billy Joel Armstrong. George, you can tell, is one great guitarist, but he never really showed off too much. He had bursts of coolness that didn't overpower the music. BJA, you can tell, isn't a great guitarist. He doesn't even try to do anything but the simple chord progression or apreggio. It's kind of hard to describe; it's more something felt because you've been familliarized with it. If I listened to, say Steve Vai my whole life, someone like George Harrison would seem lame and bland to me. It's really a territorial thing, as you said, which I now truley understand after some thought. Guess I kind of dismantled much of my argument. XP

No hard feelings. I was out of place there.

Anyway, end of argument.

I agree with Imander. I have found groups that I have gradually warmed up to (At the Drive-In) and groups that I still can't listen to that I am immediately put off by (Yo La Tengo).

Not An Addict:

--- Quote from: Inlander ---I grumble. Especially when it's my housemate playing fucking Audioslave really loudly in the next room.
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And here's where that "look on the bright side, give the music a chance" thing goes right out the window. There is nothing good about Audioslave. At all. Anyone who says otherwise is dead fucking wrong.

Er, sorry. When it comes to bad music, ideally, I just shut it off. If I can't (say I'm at work and too busy to flip the station), I do my best to tune it out. It's hard, though, because whenever there's music playing, I can't help but focus on it. It's like my mind zeroes in on the music and everything else gets sidelined, which is why I can't write and listen to music at the same time. So tuning out is hard for me, especially if the music is awful. I just grit my teeth and bear it.

heretic:
i'd rather listen to bad music i've never heard before, then stuff i know i don't like. just the other day i was in a friends car and weezer came on. he said , "ohh, i like this song." so i listened. after about a minute i said "in my opinion this sucks." he said i could change it, but i left it to hear the whole sucky song. and i ended up hearing a slightly entertaining riff. i try to listen to bad music all the way through before i finalize my decision to not listen to it again.

also, i'd like to point out that not liking indie is a little wierd, as indie just means independant, and does not correspond to any particular sound. so if you actually don't like independant music, i feel bad for you, because you are being told what to like by the big four.

dps:
It depends on the circumstances and why I'm listening to something I don't like.  For example, where I work, we have country music piped in.  Country is really not my thing at all, but I can't get away from it there, so I just phase it out.  On the other hand, if my mom is listening to music I don't like, I can generally just leave the room--she won't care--but if my girlfriend is listening to music I don't like, I just sort of grin and bear it.  Fortunately, the gf and I agree on a lot of music--it's one of the things that got us together in the first place--but her tastes are broader than mine (which seems strange to me, cause I think of myself as someone who has rather broad musical tastes).

Kai:

--- Quote from: heretic ---
also, i'd like to point out that not liking indie is a little wierd, as indie just means independant, and does not correspond to any particular sound. so if you actually don't like independant music, i feel bad for you, because you are being told what to like by the big four.
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"I’d better head the “but indie’s not a genre!” nerds off at the pass: shut up, you. Don’t pretend not to know exactly what I’m talking about when I say “indie rock.” It means white kids with guitars playing slapdash lo-fi pop songs about spatulas."
 - Dr. David Thorpe.

Seriously. Shut up.

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