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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.

Inlander:
I grumble.  Especially when it's my housemate playing fucking Audioslave really loudly in the next room.

Seriously though, I think there are two kinds of "not liking" when it comes to music (or any other kind of art for that matter) - there's the not liking where you're instantly put off and can't stand to listen to it any more; and there's the not liking where it just doesn't grab you.  I've usually found that the first is an insurmountable problem (see the Audioslave comment above); the second, on the other hand, usually means I just need to listen to the music in question a bit more.  For instance, when I first listened to You Forgot it in People by Broken Social Scene I just couldn't get into it, especially given all the hype it'd received.  But I made myself listen to it a few more times, and it very quickly became one of my favourite albums.

Robbo:
Merkava, to me is is VERY boring and bland and doesn't show anything musically interesting. And I listen to fucking SUNN O)))! So how come I can find a 15 min song, that has 1 riff played at about 20 bmp and reverbed and distorted a few dozen times, entertaining....yet I still find Indie boring? I'm pretty sure we've been over my reasons for not liking Indie hence my use of "blah blah blah" because everyone knows the Metalheads dislike for it and why.

EDIT: And as Inlander talked out above...Indie falls into that first type for me. I'd say there's some more ground of how much you dislike it. Maybe stuff you don't really like, but you'll dance to it in a club or at a party, but wouldn't spend any money on it, etc.

Now, I really can't stand Indie, but I at least make the effort to pay attention to all these apprently great albums whem I hear them. Like I said, it's my love of the odd musically shouting match so I try to educate myself. I've sat through dozens of dull Hardcore albums to talk about stuff with Core kiddies, whatever. It's not something I go out of my way to do eveyone. I just know fair few people with a fair range of tastes and I try to take notice.

Would you rather I was the stereo type of the 1D Metalhead that just listens to Heavy, Thrash, Power Metal and nothing else? And just called everything crap without listening?

Oerdin:
I like to listen to music a couple of times before I write it off as something I don't like.  Sometimes an intial dislike grows on you a bit and you start to like it after you've gotten a chance to understand the music better.  I was like this with a lot of Archetecture in Helsinki's stuff (and intially some of The Fiery Furnaces stuff) but once I over came my intial "this isn't my type of music" and actually just sat down and listened to the CD a few times through I decided the music wasn't as bad as I originally thought.

Se7en:
My reaction to music i dont like differs, according to the reason i dont like it.

I often dislike music because of really bad singing, like modest mouses early stuff. Nasal and whiney vocals really piss me off, and its put me off a lot of things. In that instance, the music just grates on my ears, and i turn it off. It doesnt matter how good the rest of the band are, the singers pissed all over it, and its not enjoyable to me anymore.

When things just arnt my taste, such as metal, my reactions different. I just dont hear most of the music, it just becomes drumming and static, and i am totaly emotionally detached from it. i can easily tune out most metal, and ignore it totaly.

When its house or one of its many variants, its just noise pollution, and it gets on my nerves, like workmen digging up the street outside my window with pnumatic drills. If its loud enough to break my concentration on whatever im doing, it makes me angry, because i have a fairly short fuse.

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