Topic: How do others respond to your musical taste? (Read 32903 times)

El Opium · « **on:** 07 May 2005, 20:14 »

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.

Johnny C · « **Reply #1 on:** 07 May 2005, 20:15 »

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.

Pip Monkey-Dick · « **Reply #2 on:** 07 May 2005, 20:57 »

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.

Inlander · « **Reply #3 on:** 07 May 2005, 21:08 »

Quote from: Pip Monkey-Dick

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.

jeremy · « **Reply #4 on:** 07 May 2005, 22:10 »

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.

Druid · « **Reply #5 on:** 07 May 2005, 23:19 »

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.)

Freezey · « **Reply #6 on:** 07 May 2005, 23:29 »

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)

GebStar · « **Reply #7 on:** 08 May 2005, 00:06 »

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"

Inlander · « **Reply #8 on:** 08 May 2005, 00:08 »

Quote from: Freezey

they didn't know who even the Clash were

My brain and my heart just broke simultaneously.

marenpoop · « **Reply #9 on:** 08 May 2005, 00:17 »

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

Tartar Martyr · « **Reply #10 on:** 08 May 2005, 00:19 »

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.

marenpoop · « **Reply #11 on:** 08 May 2005, 00:19 »

Quote from: Druid

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

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #12 on:** 08 May 2005, 00:22 »

Quote

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

Sophi · « **Reply #13 on:** 08 May 2005, 00:30 »

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.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #14 on:** 08 May 2005, 00:55 »

Most people don't know what the hell I'm talking about and they say "what, like slipknot?"

yes.

exactly like slipknot.

Robbo · « **Reply #15 on:** 08 May 2005, 01:27 »

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.

Druid · « **Reply #16 on:** 08 May 2005, 02:43 »

Quote from: marenpoop

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. :\

KharBevNor · « **Reply #17 on:** 08 May 2005, 04:05 »

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!!!

ASturge · « **Reply #18 on:** 08 May 2005, 04:35 »

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?"

Quote from: marenpoop

i like the libertines

haha.

" Do you like the Libertines?"
"yes"
"Do you like the Killers?"
"yes"
"well.....then i must now leave"
^_^

MilkmanDan · « **Reply #19 on:** 08 May 2005, 05:10 »

Terror. Sometimes pity.

McTaggart · « **Reply #20 on:** 08 May 2005, 05:14 »

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?

SalsaShark · « **Reply #21 on:** 08 May 2005, 08:19 »

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)

amok · « **Reply #22 on:** 08 May 2005, 09:15 »

"Dude, you should get your CD player fixed, it's making all kinds of strange noises."

Robbo · « **Reply #23 on:** 08 May 2005, 09:16 »

I'd be happy of that comment if I was listening to some messed up Industiral or Experimental Noise.

AnonymousPosterChild · « **Reply #24 on:** 08 May 2005, 10:14 »

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.

Robbo · « **Reply #25 on:** 08 May 2005, 10:23 »

Your tastes are clearly too popular. You should start only buying stuff by bands that record their CDs backwards.

Revenge_Therapist · « **Reply #26 on:** 08 May 2005, 10:25 »

Run in terror.

AnonymousPosterChild · « **Reply #27 on:** 08 May 2005, 10:34 »

Quote from: Robbo

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.

Robbo · « **Reply #28 on:** 08 May 2005, 10:35 »

*Throws some Injected Bleach cds at you*

AnonymousPosterChild · « **Reply #29 on:** 08 May 2005, 10:45 »

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.

El Opium · « **Reply #30 on:** 08 May 2005, 10:48 »

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 · « **Reply #31 on:** 08 May 2005, 10:52 »

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 · « **Reply #32 on:** 08 May 2005, 11:01 »

Hell, Sunn O))) should set off earthquake warning systems in neighbouring countries. Turn it up!

muffy · « **Reply #33 on:** 08 May 2005, 11:06 »

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 · « **Reply #34 on:** 08 May 2005, 11:09 »

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.

Schmung · « **Reply #35 on:** 08 May 2005, 11:28 »

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.

Reno · « **Reply #36 on:** 08 May 2005, 11:39 »

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

thehoopiestfrood · « **Reply #37 on:** 08 May 2005, 12:01 »

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.

thehollow · « **Reply #38 on:** 08 May 2005, 12:34 »

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.

maculated · « **Reply #39 on:** 08 May 2005, 12:39 »

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.

Robbo · « **Reply #40 on:** 08 May 2005, 12:40 »

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.

catflea · « **Reply #41 on:** 08 May 2005, 12:40 »

Quote from: muffy

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!

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #42 on:** 08 May 2005, 12:49 »

Amen.

thehollow · « **Reply #43 on:** 08 May 2005, 13:38 »

Quote from: Robbo

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.

Donut · « **Reply #44 on:** 08 May 2005, 13:52 »

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!

kikanjuuneko · « **Reply #45 on:** 08 May 2005, 13:59 »

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."

Spike · « **Reply #46 on:** 08 May 2005, 15:04 »

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."

StrikeThePostman · « **Reply #47 on:** 08 May 2005, 15:08 »

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.

mooface · « **Reply #48 on:** 08 May 2005, 16:25 »

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).

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #49 on:** 08 May 2005, 17:40 »

Quote from: StrikeThePostman

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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Author Topic: How do others respond to your musical taste? (Read 32903 times)

El Opium

Pip Monkey-Dick

jeremy

Druid

Freezey

marenpoop

Tartar Martyr

marenpoop

Praeserpium Machinarum

Sophi

Robbo

Druid

ASturge

MilkmanDan

SalsaShark

Robbo

AnonymousPosterChild

Robbo

Revenge_Therapist

AnonymousPosterChild

Robbo

AnonymousPosterChild

El Opium

Robbo

Robbo

Schmung

Reno

thehoopiestfrood

maculated

Robbo

catflea

Praeserpium Machinarum

Donut

kikanjuuneko

StrikeThePostman

mooface