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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: El Opium on 07 May 2005, 20:14
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I'm sure most people here run into others who just don't get what they listen to. Being a bit of noise head myself people tend to think my stereo is broken or that I'm not quite right in the head. Annoying people is part of the fun though. Putting on a drone record you like but no one else can stand is a good way to get some peace.
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They're mostly just used to my music tastes being obscure by now. Either that or, when I meet people who don't know me that well, I explain that the music I listen to is below mainstream radar.
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I get made fun of. Mainly by nihilist, though also by other people.
I have very eclectic (and bad) tastes. Such as our lady peace, the bloc party, the cure, the clash, morrisey, etc.
Though I have been lucky enough to meet someone with worse taste than me. Just stand near him, and my music seems tolerable by comparison.
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the clash, our lady peace, the bloc party, the cure, morrisey, etc.
Fix'd. Sorry, I just had to put that buffer zone in between the Clash and Morrisey for my own peace of mind - having The Only Band That Matters next to the King of Whinge was just too much for me!
Sorry, I know that's the kind of shit this thread's trying to avoid. Good god, though, I loathe Morrisey . . . Anyway, I listen to such a variety of music that people usually say "Cool" to one thing and "Ewww!" to another. It's not unusual for me to listen to an Alison Krauss C.D. followed by Count Basie followed by the Shins followed by X.
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It never goes over very well. Usually they say they just don't understand it. I can deal with that. Worse are the people who get some giant hair up their asses about it, as if musical taste is anything other than completely subjective. I can understand certain criticisms ("they can't play their instruments very well", "this is recorded poorly by my standards" - usually I agree with these!), but as the saying goes, there's no accounting for taste. If I were to freak out everytime I was subjected to some music I didn't like, I doubt I'd be able to go very many places or be civil with very many people. As long as people don't pull that "I'm so enlightened about music/I am better than you because I know _____" schtick then turn around and spazz whenever I put on something that's a bit off kilter, I don't really care if they actually like any particular band that I do.
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Indifference mainly.
My friend said it best when he commented "Some of the stuff you listen to is cool, but alot of it is just wierd."
He doesn't have bad taste, but, to paraphrase muffy, he likes the libertines. (I think I'm going to start useing that phrase to describe people who have bad taste in indie music.)
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It differs from person to person. The most common is "I've never heard of them". Theres a few people in my computers class who constantly think I'm a stupid person because of my musical tastes; speaking such lines as "why don't you listen to something people actually KNOW?" (that doesn't sound bad, but it's the tone they use); "those bands suck, why are you bothering to listen to them? They'll never make it like *-popular group-*, idiot"...the like.
Of course, I then ridicule them for listening to Yellowcard. The fact that they didn't know who even the Clash were just makes it sweeter.
but yeah. I've usually got something that everyone will enjoy (despite my main love being centered around punk rock; I'll listen to pretty much anything a person throws at me)
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My friends have dealt with my music tastes, and never ask me what I'm listening to because most of the time they don't know the band.
One friend is always giving me looks of disappointment when the topic of Will Smith comes up, I reckon he's great, probably because i was essentially raised on Will Smith.
My Family is the worst, i come from an Arabic background, and where i come from, your race is a big part in the kind of music you listen to. So, my whole family listens to RnB, Rap and Pop music. So when i throw the Shins on i often hear this.
"What is this happy people bullshit?" "Happy little fairies" "happy little elf music"
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they didn't know who even the Clash were
My brain and my heart just broke simultaneously.
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people are kind of surprised i listen to what i do. i guess i look like the kind of girl that listens to whatever's on trl
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Most of my friends enjoy my music for the most part. We all like the same base group of classic rock and the upper crust of popular indie/pop/alt rock from the past few years (Shins, Radiohead, Wilco). But where my tastes include more of the classic "indie" type bands (Pavement, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Pixies), theirs usually stick to the present or trace back a more classic rock path (stones, beatles, hendrix).
Where I lose all of them is when I start listening to hip-hop. Every few weeks I will get in a mood where all I want to listen to is A Tribe Called Quest or Jurassic 5, or the Roots. None of my friends like hip hop.
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Indifference mainly.
My friend said it best when he commented "Some of the stuff you listen to is cool, but alot of it is just wierd."
He doesn't have bad taste, but, to paraphrase muffy, he likes the libertines. (I think I'm going to start useing that phrase to describe people who have bad taste in indie music.)
i like the libertines :(
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How do others respond to your musical taste?
they don't, or alternatively calls it weird. I know a guy, we get along and everything, but if the convo is about music then it's pretty much a shit-throwing contest. Mainly because he's an r'n'b boy(he likes Usher for gods sake, though curiously enough he does admit the lyrics are crap) while I am not....quite the opposite. I pretty much keep my tastes to myself, having lost any hope for their(everyone I know basically) recovery from chronic bad taste in music. I have great difficulty taking people who listen to 50 Cent and Usher seriously, but to each his own, just don't force to listen to that crap.
The only person who shares my taste a wee bit is my little brother, and guess who indoctrinated him...I will give you a hint: it wasn't Satan ;)
all above is immensely snobbish and so it was intended...ha
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I always get the feeling that most people here would think my musical taste was atrocious. For instance, right now? I just played Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani like five times in a row. I have not broken down and listened to *nsync in a while (except for the time when I recited the lyrics to Pop to my friend over im from memory), but I assure you that for a while, it was a regular occurence. My playlist contains the following: Destiny's Child. Jay-Z. George Michael. Britney Spears. Dolly Parton. I also listen to a lot of stuff that I'm not going to hide when people come over, but that's probably not cool either - Ben Folds, Jason Mraz, stuff like that. I'm also a huge musical theatre fan, so a good part of my music collection is made up of cast recording - pretty dorky. I don't make any apologies, though. If someone wants to hate me because I like The Dixie Chicks, whatever! There's probably someone out there who wants to hate me because I like The Clash. I have friends who hate both aspects of my musical taste, but whatever. I'm not saying that I'm totally awesome for listening to a lot of what I listen to, because I know that a lot of it is crap and a lot of it is totally dorky, but I do have pretty good musical taste for the most part, if I do say so myself, so I think it evens out. I just think it's dumb when people try to judge you by your musical taste, and tell you that you're not cool enough or something. There's really no winning, either your taste is too mainstream, or you're too elitist, or you're too pretentious, or you're a poser, and so on and so forth.
Sorry I got sort of ranty there. It's something that I'm touchy about.
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Most people don't know what the hell I'm talking about and they say "what, like slipknot?"
yes.
exactly like slipknot.
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Snap. "You've never heard of them and let's keep it that way, ok?"
People have heard of the really big name stuff I listen to, like Slayer. Generally haven't heard much even by such a big band. It's already with my Metal mates, just generally I still listen to loads of crap they don't know, but I'm working on that.
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i like the libertines :(
They're not bad. The stuff I've heard is pretty catchy, but it's nothing I'm interested in.
I'm not being mean. I just find the line humorous, and I have a thing for quotes. :\
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When I put on CDs in the sixth form common room the response is normally somewhere along the lines of "Agggh, evil death music!" or "What the FUCK is this?".
Let me clarify. My musical taste is shared by very few people to any exact degree. Definitely by no-one in my year: They may agree with me on a few things, a band or a genre maybe, but never the whole gamut. People who can understand my love for raw black metal and goregrind can't fathom why I like Horrorpop, EBM or folk. Those who get my liking for goth and pagan rock don't understand why I'd be listening to sludge metal or Psychobilly, and absolutely no-one gets why I like Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows. People bitch at me as much for the bands I dislike: I loathe Radiohead and all their insipid 'rock*' clones, Greenday annoy me only slightly less than every other pop-punk band ever concieved, Placebo bore me, etc.
*ROCK MUSIC HAS TO ROCK FEWLS!!!
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Well, i made Cpt.Fantastic a copy of 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'.
I saw him listening to 'Oh Comley' on his iPod and then girl took a headphone and listened for about a second before saying "what kinda crap are you listening to?"
i like the libertines :(
haha.
" Do you like the Libertines?"
"yes"
"Do you like the Killers?"
"yes"
"well.....then i must now leave"
^_^
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Terror. Sometimes pity.
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Normally it's me bitching about their music.
I get a 'Why are you listening to country?' quite often. This is when I'm listening to Beck or Bright Eyes. Also happened once when I was listening to the Gorillaz. wtf?
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People think I'm weird because of the mix of music I listen to... everything from country to pop to rock... I basically listen to everything, and no matter what I play, I'm sure to get laughed at, so around my friends I just listen to whatever CDs they put in because they're sure to hate whatever I have (there was an interesting incident where my friend told me that if I played my Verve CD, she would strangle me, then I played it and she actually tried to)
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"Dude, you should get your CD player fixed, it's making all kinds of strange noises."
:(
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I'd be happy of that comment if I was listening to some messed up Industiral or Experimental Noise.
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Usually they raise one eyebrow an ask "Who is this?" followed by "Cool, can I borrow the CD?
Then I never see the CD again.
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Your tastes are clearly too popular. You should start only buying stuff by bands that record their CDs backwards.
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Run in terror.
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Your tastes are clearly too popular. You should start only buying stuff by bands that record their CDs backwards.
But that'd require me to be, you know, not lazy.
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*Throws some Injected Bleach cds at you*
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Anyways, its not really a matter of current popularity, but the ease it takes to get the band to a popular level. I think the problem stems from people thinking that canadian bands suck.
I blame Nickleback and Celine Dion.
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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.
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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?"
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Hell, Sunn O))) should set off earthquake warning systems in neighbouring countries. Turn it up!
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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.
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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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Oh, you like so-and-so. Cool. Hang on, you like so-and-so also. BGBHhthbt Fuck off.
That about sums it up. I'm banned from playing certain CDs in the presence of certain people.
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Usually
"Who's that?"
[insert CD in player]
"Ooh, I like, where can I get that?"
which reminds me, I have to get my step-mother a copy of the Arcade Fire for Mothersday
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I'd get High Fidelity style shopkeepers saying I have awesome taste (I loved this when I was like 12 cos I felt I was so grown up) and friends saying "we're not listening to that". Read into that how you with, though nowadays I have more friends with similar tastes.
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My musical taste is kind of wierd. My 2 favorite bands are Tool and A Perfect Circle. I say this, and everyone thinks I like Staind and Sevendust and other horrible shit like that.
But other than that I listen to a lot of Post Rock and more obscure stuff, like Dredg, The Mars Volta, Godspeed, Mogwai, Mum, Do Make Say Think, Explosions in the Sky, Murder by Death, etc.
I have them listen to the other stuff and they alwaays say 'this doesn't seem like something you'd like' because it's unlike Tool and APC.
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I've been fortunate in life to either surround myself with people with good or similar taste. I've always been the one people go to for music recommendations. It all started with kermit - where you had to go search for songs online and upload your own to get them . . . it became a fantastical hobby and now all I do is look for obscure stuff that sounds great.
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Errr, why would a Tool fan like crappy Nu Metal bollocks? More like they're like arty wankery...or something arty. As you do in post-rock.
And your screen name makes me want to ask if you do like The Hollow.
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Then they find out what I really like, and they kind of laugh in my face and mock me to their scene friends.
but we all love mocking you!
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Amen.
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Errr, why would a Tool fan like crappy Nu Metal bollocks?
I dunno, but it happens a lot.
I think it's because Tool and APC get a decent amount of Airtime on radio stations dominated by nu metal shit.
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It depends.
When I'm playing obscure bands that you all like, I mostly just get "Who's that?... Never heard of them." Then sometimes either a "Ehh, They're not my type." or an "I like them alright, they sound pretty cool." And that's that.
When I'm playing the more mainstream stuff that most of you hate, I get more "Hey, I like them. Can you copy it for me sometime?" or once again an "Ehhh, not my type."
Then I put on some Berlioz, or some Dvorak, and everyone equally gives me slightly bewildered looks. Ha HAH! ;)
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One of three possible:
1. "Never heard of 'em."
2. "OMG U LIKE HARDCOER AND ITS TERNDY 2 H8 HARDCOER SO I HATE HARDCOER 2 NURRRRRRR"
3. "Jesus fucking Christ, is the player broken? Turn it off, man!"
Or in very, very rare cases (as in around 5 people) "hey, this is some good shit."
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A friend of mine was checking out my ipod. He handed it back to me and said "Christ, I don't even know who half these bands are."
My friends and I joke about a lot of bands and stuff, even if we like them. So they are never really like "oh my god go die."
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When I tell people what I'm listening to, I normally get an "Oh" and a quirked eyebrow. By now, most people have stopped asking ;)
Where I live, if it's not Dave Matthews, Bob Marley, the Grateful Dead, Phish, or OAR, nobody knows who it is.
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Everybody who looks through my music collection thinks the majority of it sucks, but like at least one or two CDs. I listen to everything except rap, hip hop, and country so my CD collection is pretty diverse (even though most of my CDs are illegal).
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Where I live, if it's not Dave Matthews, Bob Marley, the Grateful Dead, Phish, or OAR, nobody knows who it is.
*Shudder*
I mostly tell people shyly, because usually they don't know, or, I dont know, am I intimidating or something? I don't like the question though, becuase I like a lot of things, but I mostly answer the question with "indie rock, punk, indie punk, stuff like that". I don't meet too many people who know the bands I like, but I did recently meet a cool guy who I spent a good while talking with about music. He made me feel kinda like I make others feel because he liked a good lot of underground hiphop. *swoon*
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My best friend calls it alarm clock music. I don't know, but his taste isn't so great though. He listens to streetpunk, bands like The Casualties and The Unseen. When we go tagging, he always sprays ska sucks just to piss me off, which does, because he's never heard of Propagandhi and self-titles him as a punk. To torture him sometimes when he's over my house, I'll put on some Streetlight Manifesto and maybe skank circles around him. Most of my other friends don't really mind my music tasts, or don't have anything negative to say about it.
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Either my 'friends' go 'what is this? I like it.' and then when I tell them, and they recognize it, they go 'Oh...I didn't think they made this kind of music.'
Or some other people ask me what things are, and I say 'I don't know.' or 'music' just to piss them off.
I'm one of those bastards that hates it when other people like the music I like after I like it.
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I'm one of those bastards that hates it when other people like the music I like after I like it.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but it can only be taken so far. Hopefully not to the extent where they basically idolize you and rip your style.
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I'd say the music I listen to goes over most people's head.
To most it's "just noise and screaming"
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Most of my friends move in similar musical circles to me and therefore have similarly eclectic tastes, so no-one ever finds it odd to hear me play Toto and then Trencher. People just react on whether they like it or not, but never get confused or hate something for no reason. And my mum likes John Zorn and David Thomas so I never even got the parental disapproval. She'd either not care, or borrow my Tom Waits records.
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Where I live, if it's not Dave Matthews, Bob Marley, the Grateful Dead, Phish, or OAR, nobody knows who it is.
Guys if we're going to complain about local musical tastes then may I just say that where I'm from, people actually listen to "Over And Over" by Nelly and Tim McGraw.
And they like it.
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Well, i made Cpt.Fantastic a copy of 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'.
I saw him listening to 'Oh Comley' on his iPod and then girl took a headphone and listened for about a second before saying "what kinda crap are you listening to?"
i like the libertines :(
haha.
" Do you like the Libertines?"
"yes"
"Do you like the Killers?"
"yes"
"well.....then i must now leave"
^_^
haha that is pretty funny
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ASturge...please stop trying to be Kvlt, it's not funny :P
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One thing that I forgot to note in my original post that I really do not appreciate is when people tell me that I listen to such and such a style of music or band "just to be cool." What the hell is that? Does anyone else have to deal with this sort of reaction? I guess the thinking is that since the person I'm talking to hasn't heard the bands I like, I must think that I am cooler than they are just because I like obscure bands. I don't understand this; they're the one assuming things about me based on what sort of music I like, not me! Seriously, if you honestly think you're cooler than someone because you listen to hip indie bands instead of popular music, you're a giant asshole. But if assume that people who listen to unpopular music do so for any different ("more cool") reasons than the rest of the world, then you're ridiculous, and should probably put off buying any music until you've finished reading "I'm OK, You're OK."
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I've never encountered that.
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Wolf Eyes-"Is that randomly generated?"
wolf eyes = rawk (and also kill people)
it depepnds. almost no-one likes noise in the people i know. but you know, it's one of those things that if you like, you love. there's no middle ground really.
same with drum and bass, to a lesser degree. the dnb community in sydney is pretty small though, so it's always nice meeting someone else who's genuinely into the music (and most people who are into dnb around here are into it proper, not just cos it's cool.)
rest of my music (hip hop, indie things, etc) doesn't generete too muc comment from the people i meet. you know, fairly standard sort of stuff, not too divisive or whatever.
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they have sex with me.
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Where I live, if it's not Dave Matthews, Bob Marley, the Grateful Dead, Phish, or OAR, nobody knows who it is.
ugh, sounds like where i live. sounds *exactly* like my high school, and university. i think it's the price paid for living in new england...jam bands - the ninth ring of hell.
regarding my own music:
my mom is usually "borrowing" my cds. and that's cool, most of her music influenced a lot of what i listen to now.
my dad tries to hide my cds. he's pretty convinced that ani difranco is evil, and that elliott smith will turn me suicidal.
my roommate has given up trying to understand. i don't discuss her lite rock/adult contemporary tendencies, she can leave my music alone.
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Shock and awe...
shock at my radness and then in awe of same said radness.
Needless to say, I listen to crap.
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my dad tries to hide my cds. he's pretty convinced that ani difranco is evil, and that elliott smith will turn me suicidal.
my roommate has given up trying to understand. i don't discuss her lite rock/adult contemporary tendencies, she can leave my music alone.
Oh you poor thing! I used to work in a grocery store and I wanted to shoot myself in the head every time I went to work becuase they played "Easy Rock"...who does that? And living with that. *hugs*
And Elliot Smith is amazingly good. Tell your dad to come talk to me about that....We'll have a frank discussion.
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my dad's only got an issue with my music when he pays attention to the words.
and i've managed to chase off the roommate on many an occasion. lite rock is nothing a little cursive or dfa1979 can't fix.
<- is the evil roommate.
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I actually made my mum a CD of stuff I thought she might like, with Feist, Mazzy Star, Azure Ray, Rufus Wainwright etc. She liked it all, with the exception of one track, which she plays for the sole purpose of antagonising the neighbours when they're being particularly obnoxious. The artist? Bright Eyes.
In her words 'it was the most irritating thing I could think of playing'.
I tried, damnit!
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Guys if we're going to complain about local musical tastes then may I just say that where I'm from, people actually listen to "Over And Over" by Nelly and Tim McGraw.
And they like it.
Okay, you win that one.
ugh, sounds like where i live. sounds *exactly* like my high school, and university. i think it's the price paid for living in new england...jam bands - the ninth ring of hell.
I'm really getting tired of all the kids who are trying to be hippies; they wear tye-dye shirts and play their guitars badly at lunchtime. (I bet you anything the only reggae artist they know of is Bob Marley.)
Of course, there are some interesting people that do this too, but they say that they've started to get embarrassed about carrying their guitars around.
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My dad really digs what I listen to. He is quite partial to Mayhem, Finntroll, Abyssic Hate, uhh...
that's all I can remember right now.
Napalm Death, too.
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Of course, there are some interesting people that do this too, but they say that they've started to get embarrassed about carrying their guitars around.
with the faux-hippies running amok, wouldn't *you* get embarrassed too?
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oddly enough my highschool's majority was people who listened to 'scremo/emo' type music so my music tastes weren't so crazy at the time (i was a bit of an emo kid back then)
now, people just look at me weird. i seem to go out of my way to cultivate friendships with people who look like they might recognize a couple bands i'm listening too.
as for my parents, there is no pleasing them. my mom has a thing against a half-decent bass line, and my dad is just... well.. he's been listening to really cheesy music lately.. and this was the man that had me listening to Pink Floyd as a youngster. this upsets me.
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and this was the man that had me listening to Pink Floyd as a youngster..
you poor child. how did you survive?
my girlfriend used to consider me an elitist asshole. now she's more industrial than i am.
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It's a mixed reaction. From my friends who have similiar tastes in music it's all 'I MUST BORROW THIS CD!' and for the others, it's either indifference or teasing. It depends on what mood they're in.
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Chav's look at me with such weirdness becuase i dress in baggy jeans and a band tshirt-with a chain and i wlak past and i can feel them look at me in horrfied looks...wierd
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When people ask me what kind of music I like I generally just say "lots of stuff, mainly indie rock" and they all get excited because they like NME popular rock stuff. So when they ask me what bands I like their faces go blank and they talk about something else. I don't really mind, it would be cool to have friends with my music taste though.
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My dad really digs what I listen to. He is quite partial to Mayhem, Finntroll, Abyssic Hate, uhh...
that's all I can remember right now.
Napalm Death, too.
Hah! Cool, Abyssic Hate... \m/
My dad is sort of an "elitist" in his genre of music (blues) but he seems to like Mercyful Fate pretty well.
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with the faux-hippies running amok, wouldn't *you* get embarrassed too?
Oh, definitely. If I could play guitar I'd probably be even more ashamed of the faux-hippies.
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I'm one of those bastards that hates it when other people like the music I like after I like it.
So... you hate turning people on to good music.
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Yeah, it's call elitism. As in "you're a stupid poser and you're not good enough to listen to my music so dont try". You my have seen Astruge trying to copy its style.
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I was having this discussion with one of the girls I work for about loads of Saddle Creek bands and how weird it was that their gigs over here are now really popular...the difference was, I think it's weird in a cool way because people now know who I'm talking about, and she thinks it's weird in a damn, it was my pet thing' way. I do that too at times, but it gets really boring really fast...I tried to be elitist, but then I realised that a) I sucked at it and b) it sucked in general.
I much prefer being a loser.
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Friends and I tend to share similar enough tastes, though some of the more twee-popish stuff will get a kind of "what the hell" look. Also more of the rap tends to go either 50/50 with one of my friends, mostly when it get's excesive with the word bitch. My brother is pretty funny "Jesus fucking christ, is this the sort of shit people listen to who turn into school shooters?" He is joking. I think.
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On the subject of which, the Columbine lads had pretty good taste: KMFDM* and Rammstein*=teh win. That recent guy wasn't so good though.
*Both the songs that were qouted as having been direct inspiration: KMFDM - Son of a Gun (which is a satirical attack on western 'global policing') and Rammstein - Weisses Fleisch (which is just Rammstein being shocking) are especially nice, and will feature in the soundtrack to my ultra-contraversial, avant-garde, violence-glorifying film of the shootings which takes place from the shooters' POV.
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OW! MY SENSE OF BASIC MORAL STANDARDS!
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"humourous" slurs against ASturge.
Okay, kind of funny the first hundred thousand times or so, but
STOP
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In all seriousness, alas, all my fiends like what I listen to. It would be fine, but none of the fuckers wanna buy it, so they constantly are asking for burns, or borrowing stuff for that purpose.
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hmm that is sad...they have jobs?
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I think it may be a phobia of record shops.
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It depends on the band and the people. My mom likes mellow- I'll listen to Elliott Smith or Ed Harcourt or The Mag Fields or something, my dad is more rock-oriented (Sadly, the most "rockin" thing I have in my collection is DFA 1979, with the exception of one former local hardcore band) usually I'll just put on something classic like The Talking Heads or Tom Petty. He does, however, like some of the weirder Camper Van Beethoven too.
My roommate is a preacher's kid and is pretty stereotypically "good-girl". She digs the poppier stuff (just certain songs) by Beulah, NMH, and the Decemberists.
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"Where's the singing?"
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i had some redneck AND wigger (thats my entire town summed up) kids telling me that what i was listening to sounded like wedding music. i was listening to ratatat.
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Most of the music I listen to is deemed as 'crap', 'wank', 'bollocks' or 'whathafuck is that?!'
They all have no sense.
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I feel your pain, Cpt. Fantastic. That's what you get for actively listening to disco and new wave.
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I get one of two reactions:
Them: What's this?
Me: Deerhoof.
Them: Ugh, turn that crap off or I will kill you. Slowly.
or...
Them: What's this?
Me: Deerhoof.
Them: This is so awesome! *begins singing along to "Panda Panda Panda".
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weirder Camper Van Beethoven too.
Oh man, all their stuff is pretty weird. "I had a dream, I licked your knees." always being one of the first lyrics that spring to mind.
Also, wheriend_ndyubgn you may want to rephrase your post. Though it might not seem racist it basicaly boils down to being so and if my memory serves I've seen ze mods wraithful over it.
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Also, wheriend_ndyubgn you may want to rephrase your post. Though it might not seem racist it basicaly boils down to being so and if my memory serves I've seen ze mods wraithful over it.
Since when the hell are wiggers a race?
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I get one of two reactions:
Them: What's this?
Me: Deerhoof.
Them: Ugh, turn that crap off or I will kill you. Slowly.
or...
Them: What's this?
Me: Deerhoof.
Them: This is so awesome! *begins singing along to "Panda Panda Panda".
i play "panda panda panda" on loop if my roommate starts getting on my nerves. it's usually only when her boyfriend is over, and it's quite effective.
they just leave, i think the song frightens them.
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Usually when I'm kitchen portering the head chef sometimes goes what the shit is that are you lisetening to and then turns it down (the last one was the Arcade Fire) or recommends me to listen to some more metal. he told me to buy him a copy of System of a Down when i was popping into town on my break which i might just do I'm going to put Julette and the Licks on full volume next time I go in.
Oh and the other example was when I was chefing and Zane Lowe put on Anthony and the johnsons another chef said he sounds like he's in pain
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Ohhh, Nu Metal chef. He could at least yell at you to listen to a real Metal band.
My friends reaction to Jimmy Doran's 8 songs in 12 second (mix of SOD and Napalm Death covers) was priceless. "What was that?" with full jaw open goodness.
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I think we can all agree that 'Panda Panda Panda' is one of the greatest songs ever.
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No we can not. But we can agree that indie types (apprently) think so.
EDIT: Had that the wrong why around. Was questioning if all the indie types really liked that song. Not if they where really indie.
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Fair enough.
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I tend to get, "zif we'd listen to your crappy music"
I tend to play up my love for metal a bit just to see what reactions i'll get, can be quite amusing (death metal voice) RWOAR DEATH METAL!!
but musically i tend not to go that hardcore, too much screaming
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I blame Nickleback and Celine Dion.
Don't forget Shana Twain, Avril and Sum 41... x_x
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Just listened to that Panda song.
Haha, they totally stole that bit from Akira with the dolls. And put crap, listless guitar underneath it.
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I do not know the Panda song. But I feel that I am missing something....
Also, I get a lot of "What language IS this anyway?" But bear in mind, I listen to a lot of Japanese and some Russian.
And then my friends typically sing along when it's broadway musical stuff or TMBG.
Am I wrong, or is the music from Avenue Q some brilliant stuff?
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Am I wrong, or is the music from Avenue Q some brilliant stuff?
Always! I saw Ave Q last summer, it's brilliant. The actual music isn't at Sondheim levels of brilliant or anything, but damn if it isn't catchy and witty! Definitely one of the best shows out there right now.
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avenue q! yes! i listen to that every monday morning when i wake up. it's a great way to start the week.
so much ruv for that show.
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I just downloaded that panda song out of curiousity, and I must say...pandas deserve a much better song than this.
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My taste in music is resulted in a major ass kicking for myself, though I appear to be an emo kid, I am not, but that doesn't stop local punks from throughing cigs at me. My taste is pretty strange, my favorite bands are, Operation Ivy, The Cure, Audio Karate, Arcade Fire, The Germs, Orange, and Last Plea for Sanity, all are not connected so well...
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I just downloaded that panda song out of curiousity, and I must say...pandas deserve a much better song than this.
ACH Dargh GNEH*.....
Got my breathing under control.
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One thing that I forgot to note in my original post that I really do not appreciate is when people tell me that I listen to such and such a style of music or band "just to be cool." What the hell is that? Does anyone else have to deal with this sort of reaction? I guess the thinking is that since the person I'm talking to hasn't heard the bands I like, I must think that I am cooler than they are just because I like obscure bands. I don't understand this; they're the one assuming things about me based on what sort of music I like, not me! Seriously, if you honestly think you're cooler than someone because you listen to hip indie bands instead of popular music, you're a giant asshole. But if assume that people who listen to unpopular music do so for any different ("more cool") reasons than the rest of the world, then you're ridiculous, and should probably put off buying any music until you've finished reading "I'm OK, You're OK."
Actually, I'm more inclined to say that some people who listen to popular music listen to it just to be cool.
I'm also inclined to think that half of the depressed teens out there who wear makeup and crap are like that because they think 'this is how people who listen to the kind of music I like act' so, that theory's not a very popular one.
edit: Ich bin Schnappi!
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Yeah, but you can say the same thing for any type of music. Percentage-wise the number of people who listen to it for reasons other than actual appreciation of the music will be much the same across the board, apart from swells caused by fads and fashion.
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My sister calls my music stupid then turns up her Disney's Cinderella Soundtrack or Aqua or what-crap-have-you. She's 18.
I'm all "Stupid? You're listening to the fucking Cinderella soundtrack."
"CINDERELLA IS NOT STUPID."
She had murder in her eyes when she said that.
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Would you mind terribley if I killed her? 18 year olds that can't tell the difference between good and bad music should be wiped off the face of the earth before they have a chance to reproduce. I'm usually not this harsh, especially towards people's musical tastes, but AQUA? *Shudder*
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Oh sure you're not that harsh you meth lab dwelling evil scientist.
Heh, I actually am curious now as to how my coworkers would respond to various musics I listen to.
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My musical taste is extremely varied so people tend to not comment on it!
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Oh sure you're not that harsh you meth lab dwelling evil scientist.
Heh, I actually am curious now as to how my coworkers would respond to various musics I listen to.
Haha, I dunno about my co-workers, but my coffee-house customers don't seem to like how my musical tastes show in my appearance. Since I have dyed black hair and 1/2" tunnels they automatically assume I'm some sort of unholy devil latte woman. I actually remember some woman asking me if I listened to Korn because she said I looked like her son's girlfriend. I got offended. Very offended. Korn sucks.
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Ohhh, gonna have to remember that one for future use. And of course the flip side for rock wannabes.
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Very offended. Korn sucks.
Yeah, fuck KoRn, all the songs sound the same and Jonathan Davis is a whining littl twunt. Fucking people think I'm DIRTY because of the way I dres? WhERE THE FUCK DID THAT COME FROM YOU DIRTY CHAV FUCKERS? I buy special shampoo just for died hair and I use scented talcum powder, wankscum.
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I tend to get the same responses as the other metal fans here.
"How the hell do you know what they're saying?"
"Its just yelling and jumping on guitars"
"Death metal? Like Disturbed and Slipknot?"
The funniest reaction was in a care ride to the mall with some newly aquanted friends of mine. We just barely had started to hang out and I had a mix CD in. It started out with the Aquabats and Catch 22, but the third song was 'My Feral Fucktoy' by Fuck...I'm Dead.
Yea, I got a weird look from every one in the car. It was great. I <3 my ska and goregrind mix.
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I have a [ton of] badge
on my messenger bag. (how emo)
It says "You will hate my music." and has an emo kid holding a stereo.
People do what the badge says.
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Haha, I dunno about my co-workers, but my coffee-house customers don't seem to like how my musical tastes show in my appearance.
Well, I am the youngest at 23, the next youngest and coincedently my favorite coworker is 30. Aside from her the rest are a bunch of 50+ year old dudes who are pretty nice guys but they are pretty dated as far as music and some attitudes.
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From my friends - blank stares and raised eyebrows. I'm always reminded I can't talk music with them. It's extremely frustrating.
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I wear endless shit from my friends about my music.
About Future Sound Of London: "Hey, man, I think you got ripped off. You bought this thinking it was *music*"
About Autechre: "How do you pronounce it? Awtokremermoofnig?"
Hell, not even a bit of honest indie got a favourable reaction (OK, it was Blueberry Boat): "You know, I don't think I'll ever understand your taste in music"
My father had nicer things to say, and he's the classical music snob from way back.
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Autechre and FSOL? Consider yourself lucky. Accidentally including Haujobb in a mix when my Top 40 loving friends were over was not fun. They honestly thought that something was wrong with my computer.
Add to that the fact that I'm still not over Massive Attack's Blue Lines, sometimes have dreams where Funeral is the theme song, occasionally furtively listen to Offspring's Smash when I think noone is looking, think that Cesaria Evora was touched by some higher power, wiggle rythmically to Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, and have underinformed but profound appreciations for things done to a piano by both Miles Davis and Martha Argerich . . . well let's just say that I'm a musical mess.
My policy is that whenever I find someone who likes any 10 albums I like, I feel fortunate, and start inviting them to shows.
--Moiche
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What is up with Haujobb, anyway? People tell me its industrial. Well, no. That's not quite true. I don't actually know anyone who has ever heard of Haujobb. The internet tells me they are industrial, but I've got Ninetynine, and that album is most definetly ambient. So, like, are their other albums different, or is it industrial ambient, or what? It confuses me.
On a more relevant note, I was told "Hah, you're listening to classical music, you pussy" by some retards while I was playing Hajnal by Venetian Snares. 3 minutes later it dropped into the breakcore, and they were actually scared. It was beautiful. It was on portable speakers too, so they didn't even get the full bass effect, the pussies.