do you like music?
in a general sense....how much of the music you hear in your daily life do you like?
interpret that as you will....
I only listen to the music I like, and my wife has similar taste in music. Work is music free. So the music I hear each day is mostly good.
I love music and I will find something in it to like, even if it does not fit within my general taste (which is vast to begin with). Things to appreciate about music that is not immediately appealing to me: analysis of a technical concept or unfamiliar use of instrumentation, exposure to a culture/demographic/lifestyle which I am unfamiliar with, or quite often--an analysis of what the artist intended is what I find most fascinating. If I do not immediately appreciate a piece of music, I assume that the fault lies within myself. That is, I have to adapt my mind to be receptive to the qualities that the piece of music was intended to convey.
Music which I might classify as "bad" would be when the artist has no clear vision of what they are trying to do, or when they fail to execute the vision that it appears they intended to convey. Or, when they set out to do something stupid to begin with, and succeed. Of course, with all of the above examples, something really awesome sometimes gets created almost accidentally.
Most music that I hear is swell - because I've chosen to hear it (or Best Beloved has and I like his taste in music). Sometimes I am exposed to what the "youth of today" chooses to listen to, and it's awful. But I know that I sound like the parents (or, indeed grandparents) of these young people ...
I'd say I'm with Flint on this one. I like good and interesting, or well-crafted examples of pretty much any genre. Most of what I hear is either through my Brother and the girls, or the music that's chosen to play over the coming soon on radio or tv. I don't often go looking for music it's just around. When i do go looking for something it becomes an obsession and I usually end up wikiing the artists and genre.
For deliberate listening I usually head for something instrumental rather than lyrical. I'm very into how music is used on tv and in radio. I particularly am interested in the use of leitmotif and that tends to lead me into acquiring series theme albums (such as the BSG albums by Bear McCreary).
I rarely hear music I don't like. Most things that happen across my path are good, or interesting, or both. Maybe it's brave, or audacious. Anything that doesn't sound cynical about itself.
Or, when they set out to do something stupid to begin with, and succeed.
I'm gonna assume this includes every commercial country tune made in the last two decades.
I like all music. I refuse to listen to rap, but that shit ain't music anyway.
Random music on the radio--I like about 30%. Most music I listen to everyday is my own, so yeah, I like almost all of it. For the most part, I enjoy mellower music than I used to, though.
I was a bit taken aback by the question. Who doesn't like "music" -- of some sort, anyway.
I'll listen to almost anything...from ABBA to Johnny Cash to Pearl Jam to Public Enemy. I just like what sounds good to me.
Well, hmm.
That's a hard one for me. I would say 75% of the music I hear in a day I am actually invested in (playing, rehearsing, writing, teaching), and that does funny things to the way you listen. I don't often get to just put something on, turn off the brain, and just soak in it. I'm usually listening in order to hear and correct something.
I don't listen to music on the commute or at home much. Incidental music (elevators, malls) I usually tune out, unless I'm in a really bad mood, and then it seems like the only thing I can hear.
When I do listen to music at home, it's usually with my kids, and they rock out to the classics - Aretha, Stevie Wonder, U2, Tower of Power, all of which are 100% guaranteed to put a huge smile on my face, every time.
I don't listen to music on the commute...
No listening to the car radio, just whatever happens to be on?
I find myself just enjoying silence more when I'm driving. When I was driving out to my last job (30 miles away), I would turn off the radio some mornings.
These days, the only music I hear comes from bars, restaurants, and other people's cars. I love the music at the bars and restaurants I patronize; the jazz band at dinner last night was fantastic! Most of the other places we go also have jazz, or eclectic DJs.
But I hate pretty much all of the music I hear coming from places I'm not at; probably because most of what I can hear is bass only. While I'm trying to work, sleep, or watch TV. And the meatheads who sometimes sit in the parking lot near my house, blasting their stereos...I superhate them. They could be playing Soundgarden, even, and I would despise them.
Good music is the best thing since the Big Bang - and as thin on the ground as the 2.7°K background radiation.
"Random music on the radio--I like about 30%." [Cloud]
That would be about 0.0001% for me, so I stick to special (and sadly rare) programmes or text heavy channels.
I'm on my own, so I listen only to what I like or try somehing new.
I travel throughout Europe to see/hear my favourite band. I'm lucky, as I often get to dine with them afterwards.
No listening to the car radio, just whatever happens to be on?
NPR
i like "alternative rock" -and stay current, not stuck in the age of my youth- and some other stuff. I detest Jazz and cannot even tolerate it in the background. I dislike country music. I'm not a huge classical music fan either. Beavis and Butthed have more sophisticated musical tastes than me.
I'm getting the Kings of Leon cd for my birthday. well, I'd be getting it if it wasn't my birthday too, but it's a good excuse.
I like almost everything. This is a change from when I liked almost nothing and was an asshole about it.
I like old country better than new country, though, and new folk better than old folk, and I suppose I don't like techno/house.
My wheelhouses are euro pop, power pop, psychedelic/space rock, post-rock.
I'm taking a seminar course right now in advanced songwriting. It's very cool - the seminar is basically 8 of us who do music for a living, and two guys with a ton of experience writing for artists lead the seminar.
Every week, we are given a prompt and a style, and we have to write at minimum a verse and chorus from that. The reason I bring it up is because the prompt for this week is "political" and the genre is "chill house".
Ugggh.
I think I'll start a thread where I just post the stuff I write for that course.
i like me a little euro-trance from teh 90s..... yomanda synth and strings is mah fave
Or, when they set out to do something stupid to begin with, and succeed.
I'm gonna assume this includes every commercial country tune made in the last two decades.
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However, I have played in bands that did Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, etc.
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Mr. Showcs lewis jr as in the guy who's dad wrote narnia?
I like most kinds of music other than soprano opera singers - too screechy, and rap - which doesn't do much for me.
However I dislike most of the new stuff currently played on the radio and I'm bored with the same old stuff played on the oldies stations. So most of the stuff I listen to on the radio is npr jazz and folk.
i like music i can feel. If i have to think about liking it....i don't like it.
Nice Flint! Willie is probably the grandfather of alt-country music and as such is held in high esteem. Haggard and Cash and that whole crowd tapped into something very authentic. I like a awful lot of music from bluegrass to alt to metal to ska to Jazz but I cannot listen to Shania Twain clones or hat country flavor of the week.
I had a debate with some friends on Twitter the other day...they were lamenting the fact that ABBA is nominated for the Rock Hall of Fame. They seem to be music snobs, and they narrowly define what rock music is.
I don't know if ABBA should be in the Rock Hall, but I think electronic and dance and hip-hop artists are worthy of entry. To me, the more modern forms of music are still very much connected to rock music. Much more so than rock is connected to jazz and blues. I think the point my friends were really trying to make is that the Rock Hall should not be based on popularity.
And I agree...though I don't think that's totally the case anyway. And the Rock Hall selection process is very weird and controlled. The Stooges should have been in years ago, and there are plenty of worthy bands that are not in there yet.
I like most kinds of music other than soprano opera singers - too screechy
May I humbly suggest that you may have been listening to the wrong operatic sopranos? My favorite currently singing is Angela Gheorghiu, and there's nothing screechy about her. The high notes just soar, both her control and her intensity are flawless. Here's one example, there are many others:
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OK, one more, but then I promise to restrain myself
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Meh. I agree her control and intensity are flawless--which is why I can't get into it. The operatic style doesn't sound like a human voice to me at all. I can appreciate the skill, but it gives me no emotional reaction. She might as well be Sharon Apple.
it gives me no emotional reaction
Wow. I'm out.
Naw man, don't say that.
Look, it's like when you were arguing with the singer in your studio about how his song needed that voice crack, and he definitely shouldn't try to re-record it to be flawless. The flaws make it interesting.
Different genre, different thing.
When I hear Yo-Yo Ma play cello, I don't need him to f up in order to make it interesting - the flawless execution, flawless in spite of him being swept up in the passion and intensity of it, that makes it interesting. Gheorgiu is the same way, for me.
One of the greatest scenes in movie history
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Yes.
That scene was the beginning of opera for me, the first time I actually got it.
Also, it's good to be reminded that Tom Hanks used to actually act.
...I cannot listen to Shania Twain clones or hat country flavor of the week.
Here's how I translate what they call genres these days to what I know them to be:
"Pop" = R & B
"Rock" = HARD Rock, or Metal
"Country" = Rock, or Pop
May I humbly suggest that you may have been listening to the wrong operatic sopranos?
dar512 humbly admits he has been listening to the wrong sopranos.
Wow, smooth. I have heard or seen maybe a half dozen operas or bits of opera and have not heard a soprano like her. Very nice.
My father-in-law is Italian and I've watched parts of operas on tv with him. I like the subtitles - makes it easier to follow what's going on.
I used to be very picky about my music but I will now be open to just about everything. I prefer psychedelic indie rock and alternative 90's music but I don't mind jazz, classical, rap (of all kinds), pop, punk, metal (the screaming stuff), and folk. I still can't get into country but I did make a few honest attempts.
Even though I don't think most mainstream music involves much musical talent, they are good with being catchy and something you can move too, which I've re-learned to appreciate.
Huzzah! I love it when somebody discovers something new to enjoy!