I’ve wondered recently if “What is a band you’ve gotten into recently?” might be a better question than “What type of music do you like?”
Band or artist is my go to for random small talk, I find a lot of times people will just say something vague like “a little bit of everything” if you ask for broad music tastes
“What is a band you’ve gotten into recently?”
That 70s band I’ve once heard something about, and I’ve been thinking of for quite a bit.
Eclectic.
I could break it down into genres I don’t like, but I think developing better music taste means not confining yourself to a specific genre.
Listening to too much 2010’s EDM that follows the same old formula made me realize variety is the spice of music.
“There’s only two kinds of music, good and bad”
It’s only the ones I like until I get tired of them and my tastes change completely.
yeah. holding to one type you miss s lot of good harmonies
That’s pretty much mine, too: I like what I like, and I don’t like what I don’t like. What’s a genre?
mfers that say they like all kinds of music when I play Agoraphobic Anal Prolapse x Christian Fetus Evisceration
“all kinds of music that the generic radio stations play”
a.k.a.
I don’t think I’ve ever even heard that.
Yeah, that’s okay. I was just hoping for something a little harder.
I’ve struggled to find some kind of logic or way to describe this to folks that doesn’t make me sound like a snob, but also avoids making me sound like a casual listener that listens to everything at the surface level.
My musical grounding is certainly a mix of post hardcore and prog metal, but over the years I have come to love music for all the forms it can take, and I’ve found songs or artists I truly love in a wide array of genres, eras and languages, to the exclusion of maybe modern country.
a mix of post hardcore and prog metal
So math-rock.
Well yeah, a band like Frodus was really easy for me to fall in love with, but I didn’t really get into a band like Slint until later in life.
It wood have been more accurate to call post hardcore and prog metal separate coordinate points for my musical landscape.
Kings X is practically part of my heritage, and I was literally raised on their Beatlesque proggy metal and raised kind of surrounded by prog and hair metal bands (not at the same time). Sunny Day Real Estate just hit me at the right time in my growing up that it became another major part of my musical identity. That’s what I mean by post hardcore, because the term emo means something meaningfully different than it did when I discovered them, but I called it emo forever until the ones with eyeliner started showing up.
Valid, I’ve heard more songs that I liked than songs I didn’t
Most songs are fine in the background but generally boring. I wouldn’t say I “like” them.
Main selling point for me is BPM; songs need to have some pace to them to keep my interest. Slower songs have to work a lot harder to achieve the same.
It was similar to me before I went to psychotherapy. Now I love calm, slow songs. Music seems to express our personality.
You know what, fuck it. This should be how everyone’s music taste develops. There’s way too much good music out there to lock yourself into a few genres.
