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your friends musical tastes iritate you, and that they are incredibly arrogant about them. I gotta mate who loves Iron Maiden, and thats all you hear about, how awsome Bruce's voice is, as if he is the greatest singer of all time, as if no other singer ever existed. Oh, and then its like, ill copy a CD with all the best Iron Maiden songs, i say yeah ill have listen but listen to this awsome Muse, with a reply of 'nah'.

What really gets on my nerves, is the reluctancy to appreciate the origins of rock, like Hendrix, Cream, Rolling Stones, The Who etc.

/rant over
 
I know exactly what ya mean man. I friend of mine is similar to that and it really gets to me. Also with this guy, he seems to talk about all the music he likes and how its so much better than what I listen to, which is fine, that's his opinion, but then he trashes stuff I listen to and continues to say how what he likes is better as if its fact.

It's impossible talking to such pigs.
 
No offense, but people that try to get me to listen to so-and-so bands because of what they have done to music (e.g. Led Zep, Black Sabbath) iritate me :p Couldn't care less about what they've done - I find the music boring as hell.

But yes, when it comes to music, my friends frustrate me the most. Without being bigheaded here, I'd say I've got the most diverse and openminded taste of music within my close bunch of friends. Seriously, I'm not saying this for an ego trip; I can safely assure you that if anyone came along and observed the music we listen to, they'd agree.

I'm not against the 'mainstream' or what's commericial and what's underground, but there's a certain line between when people listen to NOTHING but ''radio rock'' and nothing else. I can't fault them for what they listen to, but I just find it worrying, going by what's actually out there, that most of my friends pretty much JUST listen to what's plastered around the charts or the radio. The Internet has played a huge impact on my music taste - this forum alone for getting me into such artists as Aphex Twin, Autechre, TV on the Radio, etc. But then can you imagine trying to get someone who listens to Artic Monkeys and Fratellis into something else not as polished or manufactured? It's impossible. I've tryed it many a time, even with bands that are better than the next NME band that have blatently ripped off the style, and they've stuck with what's broadcasted into their ears 24/7 over the radio.

Urgh, I can't explain this properly over the Internet. You'd have to be at a party with me to hear me ramble on about this kind of stuff at 3 in the morning. :p
 
See i have mates who actually appreciate the wide range of bands there are, i mean im a hardcore Muse fan, but respect the likes of Metallica and Iron Maiden for their achievements, although myself, not blowing the trumpet, is a fond listener of a very widespread range of music. Its just this one particular mate of mine, stresses that he likes a wide range of music, but does he balls, you give Maiden one little insult he goes insane.

DeusExMachina said:
And most of those bands are hardly the origins of rock music.
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Oh really, who is then?
 
Most of you guys have music tastes that annoy me.

It annoys me when so many of you limit yourself to a certain sub-genre and then worship it: My current playlist has Beethoven, Black Sabbath, R.E.M, Bob Dylan and quite a few more obscure Indie bands.
 
I like Oasis, Placebo, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Lost Prophets, Muse, Radiohead, Green Day (old stuff), Linkin Park (old stuff), Blur, Sum 41, Rage Against the Machine and others. Thats alternative/metal/blues/indie/rap/punk etc, pretty widespread imo.

I like Faithless also, which is like the other side of the spectrum.
 
What annoys me is when people all love a single band/genre just because it seems to be the 'cool/in' thing to do. Guarantee half the people on these forums, for example, dont actually like NIN even though they say they do.

Personally i have tastes from all over. Incubus (my fave), Massive Attack, Placebo, some dance songs, some trance songs, ***k it i even like Dido for god sake. When people go 'urrrrgh thats ***t' or whatever, i just flick the finger and dont care.

Then i love the classics from the likes of Dire Straits, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Hornsby, Bryan Adams and yes, U2.
 
Antipop, I'm right there with you. The internet provided me with a whole lot of eclectic but amazing music - RDJ, El-P, TV on the Radio, Boards of Canada, etc - and none of my friends like or understand it. Luckily, I listen to a lot of more prevalently appreciated stuff, like Phish and Bob Marley, so it's not a problem.
 
Ennui said:
Antipop, I'm right there with you. The internet provided me with a whole lot of eclectic but amazing music - RDJ, El-P, TV on the Radio, Boards of Canada, etc - and none of my friends like or understand it. Luckily, I listen to a lot of more prevalently appreciated stuff, like Phish and Bob Marley, so it's not a problem.
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Ditto. Everytime i have BoC or Explosions In The Sky on, my mates go 'what the hell is this?'. Nobody i know seems to like it :S
 
Solaris said:
Most of you guys have music tastes that annoy me.

It annoys me when so many of you limit yourself to a certain sub-genre and then worship it: My current playlist has Beethoven, Black Sabbath, R.E.M, Bob Dylan and quite a few more obscure Indie bands.
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Yeeeeeeah, you really need to look more into alot of the bands people talk about here. Most the people I see that frequent this forum are VERY open minded.
 
DeusExMachina said:
Oh I don't know Elvis Presley, Woody Guthrie for instance?
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They were major influences yeah, but for high octane rock and roll of modern times, The Jimi Hendrix Experiance, The Who, Cream and The Rolling Stones were the people who started it all. It was even on a documentry yesterday night called 'Rock Years', first episode focusing on the origins of rock and roll, saying that Hendrix amogst others first introduced it. With many of the leading rock artists of the years making appearances on it.
 
Meh. I'm just biased against most classic rock. Most music is far better than it was 30 years ago if you look in the right places.
 
Truth. Aside from Floyd, Yes and one or two others, I can't say I like it at all. And the amount of arguments I've gotten in with friends who find it hard to believe that no, I do not like Stairway to Heaven, is quite impressive.
 
I disagree there. Led Zeppelin was a force of nature - LOTR lyrics ftmfw - and I like a lot of other classic rock, but it's more about character than quality. Some things only happen once. It's not phenomenal music a lot of the time, but there's another quality to it that can override it for some people, though I usually prefer more modern stuff.

ĐynastҰ said:
Ditto. Everytime i have BoC or Explosions In The Sky on, my mates go 'what the hell is this?'. Nobody i know seems to like it :S
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I just put on BoC whenever my friends and I get baked. At first they question, but then Dayvan Cowboy breaks and they're all too busy basking in its sound to care.
 
My friends' taste in music irritates me. Not because they push it on me or anything, but because it just really grates me. For better or worse, I've cultivated my own bubbled niche where I can't listen to most things unless it's trying something new or different. I appreciate diversity in that all my favorite artists are uniquely distinct from one another in terms of their methods, their sound, and their personalities. But I don't venture too far into other genres because I frankly don't like what I hear. Guys like NIN are still awesome though because of his compositional skills and technical skills.

So it kinda bugs the shit out of me, say, when I'm at a party and it's nothing but the same, dull, uninspired, indistinguishable mash of musicians parading endlessly round and round through the stereo speakers. This didn't bug me too much until my tastes were called into question. The usual shit. "Electronic music is so easy". "It doesn't require skill". "You can't emotionally relate to it". Or, more specifically, "Your taste in music is like a pack of rabid wolverines ripping a man to pieces in an icestorm".

But a few have come around. BoC, if not necessarily liked by most people, has been seen as acceptable and a valid source of musical entertainment. I get people who like Squarepusher's material with the funky bass guitar. And every once in a while they tell me they like a random Autechre track they downloaded (almost always from Tri Repetae).
 
I may be noob, but Tri Repetae is my favorite Autechre so far, though I haven't had time to seriously explore the discography I downloaded.
 
It doesn't really bother me because I'm usually the elitist asshole.

I hooked my MP3 player up to my friend's stereo at a party, blasted Gantz Graf. He thought I broke it.
 
Geogaddi said:
It doesn't really bother me because I'm usually the elitist asshole.

I hooked my MP3 player up to my friend's stereo at a party, blasted Gantz Graf. He thought I broke it.
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I like to use stuff like that as wake-up music the morning after a party. Just blast the most vicious crap I have on me at max volume at the people on the couches.
 
If there's anything worse than an ignoramus with a shitty taste in music, it's someone with a shitty taste in music who tries to hide it. Example:

-Yeah, so, I really like Slipknot.

-Huh, I don't.

-Well I mean, their OLD stuff is good, and a like a few songs, but yeah, their new stuff is HORRIBLE.

That irritates me so much.
 
What really bugs me are people who like The Smiths, how can you like that crap?
 
Absinthe said:
So it kinda bugs the shit out of me, say, when I'm at a party and it's nothing but the same, dull, uninspired, indistinguishable mash of musicians parading endlessly round and round through the stereo speakers. This didn't bug me too much until my tastes were called into question. The usual shit. "Electronic music is so easy". "It doesn't require skill". "You can't emotionally relate to it". Or, more specifically, "Your taste in music is like a pack of rabid wolverines ripping a man to pieces in an icestorm".
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Exactly the response most of my pals state if I subject them to anything electronic. Exactly. Pisses me the **** off.

Pretty much ALL of my close friends (the more musical of the bunch) use the talent card whenever they can. I couldn't care less how talented the person that makes it is. Hell, someone could throw two bricks at a metal door, record it then release it for all I care. If it sounds good then that's fine with me. I actually have a friend who strives upon music having to be talented to be good. But, he listens to shite like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, and all the other virtiuso (?) guitarists, so when he calls anything I like dull and generic it's hard to take him seriously. :thumbs:
 
Whenever someone gives me that bullshit I burn them a copy of Reason and tell them to get their ass in gear because I want to be hearing quality electronica by the end of the week.
 
I'm on the same boat as you all.

Most of my friends listen to shitty ass, copy-and-paste rock songs.
 
I don't force my music tastes on friends. I just play it in the background alot and maybe talk about it briefly if they mention it, until one day they'll suddenly exclaim "goddamnit, why am I starting to like this?"

Seriously, happened atleast a few times now, and most of the time I'm not even trying :E
 
I must be the only person to not even pay attention to bands or their names of even names of songs. I just listen to completely random radio stations all day and click things on the internet. If i like it I like it if I don't I don't.
I could be listening to from some really popular band that I like and still be like "who the **** is this"?
 
Why does any of this bother you in the first place? If the music's good (in your opinion), don't sweat it. I cannot stand most country music but I'd be lying if I didn't enjoy a couple of songs and hadn't seen Mr. Cash in concert. Whether or not it's underground or overplayed, got roots or not, has 'sold out to the man' or not, or even is being presented to you by an arrogant friend shouldn't have a bearing on whether or not you like it, right?
 
At the end of the day, my music taste is far superior to all of you.
 
So you are like a music connoisseur?

How does Avril Lavigne taste?
 
What people end up listening to and liking can nearly always be attributed to the situation they were in (or purposefully put themselves in) when they listened to it. I have music that is similar to many bands that my mates listen to, in many ways better, but they wont give it the time of day, because the only time they hear it is when they're just waiting to put their own music on and dont/wont care.
Personally, I have a hifi system I have spent a bit of money on, I like to turn the lights off, sit in my comfy chair and give it all a chance. I had many albums I did not understand the greatness of until I did this.
 
I don't like to talk about music with friends or relatives. I'm a music snob and it annoys the hell out of me, I don't have a narrow taste or anything but there's a lot of stuff out there I have a problem with.
 
Shift said:
your friends musical tastes iritate you, and that they are incredibly arrogant about them. I gotta mate who loves Iron Maiden, and thats all you hear about, how awsome Bruce's voice is, as if he is the greatest singer of all time, as if no other singer ever existed. Oh, and then its like, ill copy a CD with all the best Iron Maiden songs, i say yeah ill have listen but listen to this awsome Muse, with a reply of 'nah'.

What really gets on my nerves, is the reluctancy to appreciate the origins of rock, like Hendrix, Cream, Rolling Stones, The Who etc.

/rant over
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I know exactly what you mean.

I have this friend who only listens to rap music and techno, and won't give any other music a chance. He makes us all listen to his horrible techno music and never listens to our music.
 
**** rap. I'll let the man Dylan Moran sum up my thoughts on the biggest soulless cash-in since mass produced boy/girl bands -

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnqrqyKhe9Y[/youtube]
 
Dylan Moran is the goddamn man.

But I like some rap; like as of recently, Themselves. I got a record label sampler from their label Anticon recently and alot of it is really good. Alias, Sage Francis, Why?... good stuff.
 
I'm the music snob of my group.

They listen to their shittastic bands, and I obviously give them shit for it.

"Oh hey man, check out this band such and such..."

"Sorry, they are a generic piece of over commercialized crap"

"Here, listen to this it's much better"

"**** off that suckz lolz" - (Before I even give them a listen)

Of course, I have them (unintentionally) convinced that all I like is Nirvana which is far from the truth. You guys got me into NIN... the rest are just bands I remember hearing in my childhood... Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Soundgarden, Pixies, Pearl Jam etc.
 
TheAntipop said:
No offense, but people that try to get me to listen to so-and-so bands because of what they have done to music (e.g. Led Zep, Black Sabbath) iritate me :p Couldn't care less about what they've done - I find the music boring as hell.
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I think they're reasoning( being X's bands inpact on music) is a reason why you should give it a listen but not neccessarily why you should like it.Led Zep's inpact on heavy metal alone is good enough reason to give them a chance but i sure as hell wouldn't listen to them for that reason alone.
 
Pfft, everybody knows the only band worth listening to is AC/DC...
 
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