I did at one point in time, but getting into Nightmares on Wax and Samurai Champloo when I was a lot younger definitely opened my eyes to instrumental music, and that interest carried to other genres. Particularly in jazz, I greatly prefer music without vocals like you mentioned. Sometimes it's good, but I'll always prefer being able to focus on the instruments being played. With post rock and electronic music in particular I find the lack of vocals allows me to paint my own picture of what the musician is expressing through their music rather than being handed a meaning for the song. Though there is also something very special about finding a song with impressive lyrics that you can completely relate to.
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