It's a wide range. I don't listen to as much thrash as I used to (though I'll still get some Slayer going once in a while - fave song is "Behind the Crooked Cross"). I am into all kinds of stuff. Rock, funk, Brazilian, soul, jazz, a bit of classic country, old punk, some post-classical...
Have you heard King Buffalo? Amazing heavy psych. Another one I liked is Slower. Bob Balch from Fu Manchu did an album of slow versions of Slayer songs. He also put out an album in late '23, Yawning Balch V2, also good heavy psych.
I've had people get mad at me online because I admitted to saying "Not my thing, but enjoy." I'm never going to join my metalhead friends for their favorite bands' concerts, but I won't trash them for going or declining to join me for an opera.
I prefer hard bop to bebop. I also prefer artists who can perform in and out of the studio without pitch correcting their voices and writing songs by committee.
Yes! Just because something isn’t your vibe doesn’t mean it didn’t absolutely slap for someone else. Let’s normalize saying, “Not for me, but I get why people love it.” The world’s big enough for all the bops – even the ones we don’t personally dance to.
Right? Like, I personally dislike Eminem. Does this mean he has no talent? No, it means I don't like the majority his stuff (there's a couple songs I can deal with). Eminem is a talented artist who I personally don't enjoy listening to. It's not a judgement on him or his music.
We used to joke about the Dave Matthews "fans" who would spend $100+ on a concert ticket, only to leave immediately after Dave played What Would You Say.
Am I still allowed to say I don’t like an artist that is popular, on the grounds that I don’t like it being assumed that I like them because they are popular? (I say this because usually I don’t like what I’ve heard of those artists anyway so it saves me having to pay them much attention)
What he means when he says, "I don't personally listen," = "not my type of music, but I know they are a good artist."
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No bops = "never even gave them a chance and they have no talent"
No bops is a hard bar to clear 😂 like if I thought up your name, you probably had a bop, I just wasn't boppin' to it (bop names that popped: Blu Cantrell, Khia, Tweet, Cabello lady, Bass lady 🤷🏾♀️)
I try to give "it's not for me but I love that you love it" vibes. You get one life, if you wanna spend some of it listening to the Wicked soundtrack on loop DO THAT SHIT
Music appreciation classes in grade school are woefully underappreciated.
I didn't understand the point 45 years ago, but I still remember my childlike disappointment that Peter & the Wolf wasn't cartoony songs, bc of the album cover.
Yet, here I am in 2025, remembering that class and the music.
I have never hated any musical experience more than having to listen to Peter and the wolf. I always thought it was by Leonard Bernstein because we had to listen to him in grade school too, and the hate was almost equal.
I don’t really regret things like that. And it’s just occurring to me - did Leonard Bernstein narrate Peter and the Wolf for children? Yes! I just googled. Ha ha. I’m 70, so that was at least 60 years ago and I still remember that bastard talking down to and being all smarmy to kids. Ugh.
I too love learning. And none of it is ever wasted. Your brain is a playground. I like pulling out kid memories and finding out parts were all wrong. Like, whoa, Bernstein didn’t compose Peter and the wolf! I just found this out this year about when the bio movie came out. It made me laugh.
Schools everywhere are musical deserts in general, I think; Where the music department is either woefully neglected and underfunded, the teacher was dreadful (as it was in my case) or both.
Moved to my current city and there are 3 musical directors in one public high school alone. Last city had one teacher for four schools. 🇨🇦 Have province vs have not.
My kid listened to grownup music their entire childhood, including everything we picked up in Asia (huge bollywood collection) and because they didn't like the derivative "children's world music" the music teacher played, was told they didn't have sufficient world music exposure. /1
I mean, lady, their favorite musician right now (age 9) is Manu Chao, and they sing along with the Bollywood classic "My Name is Anthony Gonsalves" in Hindi!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkBHwY5xVCc
My opinion is objectively correct.
Im partial towards heavy things like thrash metal.
Im also into almost everything. It just depends on what I'm doing or my mood.
I've been pretty big on Perfect by Cult To Follow lately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6qFXKrI7Tw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkBHwY5xVCc
Merely my opinion but much new era noise isn't music.
I'm extremely biased. I've smoked joints with legends behind jook joints.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkBHwY5xVCc
(what's your favorite song?)
"Ants Marching!"
(what do you think about Dancing Nancies?)
"I've never heard them. What songs do they play?"
It's just funny to watch people spend $100+ on a ticket to a concert only to get up and leave once he has played the one top 40 hit they've heard of.
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No bops = "never even gave them a chance and they have no talent"
It's getting real old though. 😭
IMO drake is an enormous hack with no catalog, but clearly people like him so 🤷♂️
I would nope not considering you don’t appear to be a 13 year old girl
1 - I don't listen to the words I just like the beat
2 - How can you listen to "insert non English group/artist" when you can't understand what they are saying?
I didn't understand the point 45 years ago, but I still remember my childlike disappointment that Peter & the Wolf wasn't cartoony songs, bc of the album cover.
Yet, here I am in 2025, remembering that class and the music.
That it is FANTASTIC that you were exposed to something as a child that you were free to decide you did not enjoy?
The point of education is that there is always something more to learn.
I have a saying: Learn something new every day.
Big. Small. Practical. Fanciful. As long as it is new. It keeps life interesting.
I am a "Fountain of Useful and Useless Information" because I learn something new every day. I have 99(998) flaws, but that ain't one. 😄