My taste in music is better than yours...

I will never understand how people can honestly eat something as disguisting as cheese, and then enjoy it.

Even though that food analogy was flawed, I enjoyed reading it, it did manage to get it's points across
 
Nah this dude is chocolate all the way.

OOC: we're not ignoring the point, we're pretty much making fun of ourselves in a nice tongue in cheek way.
 
If It hasn't been pointed out already the creative spark in the arguements that seem to arise when discussing music and the reason I think people are angry, or aleast some (I do believe some are simply being egotistical or looking to argue) Is that mainstream music these days can in many many instances be a complete mockery of decent music throughout the last 100 years. It is, there's no way anyone can tell me 'well thats just YOUR opinion' It just without a shadow of a doubt is...in terms of its quality, sound, talent, ethics, means of construction, influences, artists, creativity, passion, soul etc. It's just on the whole not as good and I think that just makes some people a little angrier when it comes to discussing music when someone promotes the modern music scene.
 
As much as i'd love to have fillet steak with caviar & white truffle sauce for dinner every night I can't afford to.
Which is why the analogy with food is a bad one.
An album doesn't increase with price the better it is.
 
I can't believe people eat cheese, or drink milk or can eat mushrooms.

That being said I love ice cream and chocolate, so I'm a huge hypocrite. Although to me the milk would be like raw meat and the ice cream would be like a nice steak.
 
You can do that without getting drawn into an arguement , i've done it myself plenty of times.



And that fact should be apparent to anyone with half a brain , which is why I consider it a lazy cop out.
 
Most of you are wrong.
Milk is not good.
Milk is another thing that big business gained a monopoly on during the 90's.
'Got Milk?' anyone. 'Got gullability?' anyone.
Milk provides you some calcium, but leafy green vegetables provide you with much more calcium, and the healthier kind of calcium that your body neeRAB.
 
That was pretty interesting. and I totally agree with you. Music should be regarded as a very personal thing related entirely to how you feel or want to feel.
 
So as long as a band is creative, they're good? You really don't care if the music is catchy or anything?

"Yeah that band is so original, I love them... I can't stand listening to them for more than 2 minutes, but they're a great band"
 
well, let's look at the facts. much of the music in question is plainly:

- absolutely shameless in terms of redundancy and use of cliches either in melody, lyrics, chord progressions, instrumental arrangements and general sonic aesthetics; this is a fact, not a subjective observation. it can be shown empirically through gathering information/statistics and by comparison with other pop of the same sort. again: it is NOT some weird opinion that some pompous underground/indie dude invented. claims of redundancy, banality and creative bankruptcy are expressions of actual facts about the structure of the music itself. observable, verifyable phenomena.

- over-produced, so much so that it doesn't even qualify as great over-produced pop


If creativity really matters to a fan of music, the fact is they're not going to have any interest in the likes of Akon, Nickelback, and so on. the question of TASTE only goes so far as whether one's taste is for unoriginal innocuous uninspired pop, or for something a little more daring, risky, edgy and adventurous. Where one goes from that point on, is really down to plain fact.
 
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