Spill Your Guts II: What You Think About MB Members' Taste In Music

I am coming on to you. I'l stop posting on this forum the day I bed someone here.

Metallica is a legendary band whether you like them or not. And if you don't like Waits you're listening to the wrong ****.

Other acts I really like:
Black Keys
Brad Paisley
Cake
Queens of the Stone Age
Jay-Z
I like some Mars Volta but I usually just put them on in the background
My Morning Jacket
Langhorne Slim
Drive-by Truckers
Nick Cave
I like some of the National
I'm growing to like Mumford & Sons, but Little Lion Man is a cancer on music.
Modest Mouse
Maroon 5 is a band that can jam out as far as I'm concerned.
TV on the Radio have the ability to kill me.
MC Paul Barman
Ryan Adams
Calexico
I listen to a ****load of pop which I explain in my blog.
Thursday

BanRAB I ****ing hate
Muse
Klaxx
!!!
Any and all forms of emo
Almost all R&B
Jurrasic 5
Howie Day
I'm sure theres more, but I can't think of any currently.
 
most of what i listen to is pretty safe, grassroots indie stuff and the like, Beefheart being one of the notable exceptions. i don't know exactly how i come across as a dadaist to you.
 
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aphex twin is sublime. i saw him at the warehouse project in manchester a couple of years ago, i didn't know him beforehand but he just blew my head off and then i got into him after then.

and i'm gonna go ahead and say tigermilk. i'm gonna listen to them a lot more cos i'm going to their manchester apollo date in deceraber, argh. excited. what's your favourite record?
 
I think this statement is often a cop-out used by people that don't have enough patience or interest to really listen to avant-garde material properly. Nobody is going to say that Rush sucks or that Chris Squire was a terrible bassist, but sometimes a comic artist/drummer with a ridiculous amount of pent up rage and a bassist that thinks a cello is the only instrument with proper tuning can create music that has honest legitimacy and delivers a more heartfelt emotional response. It just takes a few more listens than normal to see past the earsplitting feedback oscillation and distorted cartoon lyrics.

Your statement also implies that there is some fundamental understanding of what is aesthetically pleasing, which there isn't, and is inherently fallacious. I like Picasso's blue period, but Monet's work bores me and actually turns me away. Judging whether something is art is the work of elitist douchebags who hold no legitimate credentials, and taste is solely the purview of the common mood.

EDIT: P.S. For the record, the first thing my dad said when I played him Lockstockings and Crown of Storms was that it sounded like prog. Which it definitely sounRAB influenced by, whether it is or not. So if any avant-garde dadaists give you flak you can tell them that Brian Gibson probably likes it. And also for the record I don't listen to much avant-garde so I'm overusing Lightning Bolt as an example.
 
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