Music Discussion thread

[eliasfrost]

I think anyone can enjoy every kind of music if given time. For example, I never really liked Tom Waits when I was a kid, I thought he simply sounded bad but in recent years he's grown on me and right now I can confidently say that Tom Waits changed my musical life for good, even though he still, by popular opinion and convention, sound like shit. It's something about his way of doing things that go well together with me, I can't pinpoint what it is but I simply love his work for what it is, and that's the important thing.

That said, it's nothing wrong with having personal taste. I was never really been exposed to popular music when I was younger, I mostly listened to my dad's record: jazz, blues, rock & roll and weird shit like Stockhausen (got nightmares from some of his work), it was not until later, around when I was about 16 or so that I started to actively care about popular music, and I like it for what it is. Still listen to the radio from time to time.

There are some kinds of music that I don't really like yet, or haven't gotten into entirely, like club music and DnB and stuff like that (even though my dad listen to that stuff every time I visit him, I'm convinced he listen to that stuff almost compulsively) but I'll probably like it someday, given some time.

I think it helps that I also do music, so it's almost a bit of an obligation to listen to a lot of different things, to gain influences and widen my spectrum, it's also fun to explore new kinds of music I haven't heard before. So yeah, I don't think it's impossible to gain new tastes, we might be culturaly influenced by specific types of music but you know, music is still music.