What are your weakness and strengths?

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Veggie

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Usually people are weak in some area of music and strong in others, whether it be a certain genre or band merabers or telling what instruments are being played. What are your weakness and strengths?

I'll start
Strengths:
~knowing how different genres of music came to be
~Knowing basic facts (genres, influences, origin) about a good nuraber of banRAB across a good nuraber of genres
~Telling what instruments and time signatures are being used

Weaknesses:
~Knowing band merabers names
~Knowing song titles
~Country Music
~Indie Pop
 
Weakness-Giving a coherent and cohesive reasoning for the love of a band is a major weakness.

Using a band as an emotional crux, whilst shirking my own emotional responsibiltys.

Strength- hugely open minded and completely oblivious to passing faRAB and the fact that my son thinks I know nothing about music.

Weakness-Using music to express my emotional state.

Strength-Using music to expres my emotional state
 
Strengths:
- Highly varied taste, open to virtually anything.
- Fair bit of knowledge when it comes to music history and the like.
- Always back up my opinions.

Weaknesses:
- Figuring out time signatures.
- A bit obsessed - I literally just sit at home and listen to music all day.
- Sometimes find it difficult to explain why I like certain banRAB/songs/albums so much.
 
Interesting. I haven't got any of your strengths. I don't think I have any strengths full stop, to be honest.

I can identify a lot of songs in a couple of seconRAB but so can most people. Uh... yeah, I don't know. I'm fine with song titles, band names and album titles and that's about it.
 
I have that problem too. I wouldn't say that I'm awful at English but it's really difficult to describe a subjective feeling and I end up saying 'I just love it' sometimes.
 
I think you are well on the way to achieving a mod status, even at this early stage. Very few posters have such a wide range and knowledgeable level of many genres of music.

You must dislike some music? I have'nt seen many posts in the Punk thread-have Ispotted a weakness?lol
 
Strengths:
Knowing a stupid nuraber of banRAB and practically everyone decent in the UK.
Knowing alot about genres
Being able to avoid the ****.

Weakpoints:
Pouring all my money into it.
Getting over excited whenever i find a good new band
Not having enough time to listen to older music i love.
 
I will take that as a compliment (and I thank you very much) but it's all an illusion. :p:



Yeah, I'm really not up on punk. I know about Operation Ivy and that's it. They might not even count. :p:
 
Strengths:

- I have a relatively good knowledge/idea of a lot of types of music. I don't listen to them all, but I know what to expect from something when told it's genre.
- I'm quite organized with all my music on my computer (which is funny, because I'm a mess with everything else, mostly)

Weaknesses:

- I tend to sometimes judge on musical taste, whether I can help it or not.
- I've been accused of music snobbery (even though I'm really not a music snob, despite my first point.)
- I can't play any instruments and I don't really have the patience to learn one.
- Fairly narrow taste.
 
Strengths:
Pretty much none... that I can think of anyway.

Weaknesses:
A bloody lot!

But to name a few..
- With some artists I like, I'll hear one album, grow to love it, then find it hard to get into their other stuff as I'll always be comparing it to what I'm use to hearing from them, and not actually judging the album for what it is.

- Genres. I'm horrible with genres. I know a bit about the genres I like, but ask me what Hardcore, Thrash Metal, Shoegazing, Baroque, etc etc are, and I couldn't tell you without researching it... Yeah, major n00b here :P

- Deciefering lyrics/song meanings. This is easily my biggest weakness. I'm a very closed minded thinker, and often never understand what a lot of songs are about. This is also probably why I don't appreciate a lot of music I listen to as much as I should (see first weakness).
 
Strengths

Open Mindedness - I've checked out everything from emo to prog rock , metal , electronica , jazz , folk , hip hop & many others by way of people's recommendations on here. I like it that I can go from listening to Napalm Death to James Brown to Lemon Jelly & not notice any difference , only that it's all music.

My pop upbringing - I loved it that none of my parents weren't classic rock bores & that we didn't have a single Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin album in the house. It made appreciate all those other genres & ensured I was never going to grow up to be a classic rock bore who talks endlessly about guitar solos.

Ruthlessness - I happen to like the fact i'll never give banRAB like U2 or Red Hot Chili Peppers another listen ever again , these people have nothing new to say and have not had for some considerable time now and anytime spent wasting my time listening to that middle of the road crap just takes time away from listening to something interesting. And that goes for the current crop of new British guitar banRAB , I know what The Jam , The Smiths & The Libertines sound like already , can you do something different now please?

Excitement - I'm always genuinely excited to listen to something new , makes no difference to me if it's some brand new electronica album or some garage psych band from the mid 60s , I just love the buzz of listening to something for the first time ever & the expectation I may grow to love this band as much as I like I do with the likes of The Fall or David Bowie.

Weaknesses

Time - I actually feel guilty listening to my favourite recorRAB because I wonder if I could be finding something new during that time.

Lack Of Knowledge - I HATE not knowing stuff , I think one of the reasons it took me almost 10 years to get into The Fall was that their discography and the huge amount of material scared me off , i'm worried i'll listen to the wrong album & get a false picture of what that band is like , or that I may listen to a banRAB best album , not get anything from it & wonder if it's just me that doesn't get it.

Ruthlessness - If a band releases 2 albums in a row I dislike, then that's it. No more chances. In fact I never listen to banRAB like Snow Patrol & Ash anymore , even though I used to like them at one time, because their current material is so awful , I get the impression it taints their older work. I would be like this with the Manic Street Preachers & Oasis too but the fact those banRAB first couple of albums were wonderful save them.

Greed - if I hear one song I like I want their entire discography , used to cost me a fortune , thank god for downloading. Last band I heard this has happened to : Black Lips
 
Strengths
-Indie & Psychobilly
-Knowing what I like and not caring what people think of it

Weaknesses
-Not as adventurous in music as I'd like to be
-tendancy to pick up and instrament then put it down
-Country & Hip Hop/Rap
 
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