Originally Posted by tore

I greatly appreciate listening to music while I work .. particularly if I'm working somewhere quiet and am bothered by tinnitus.

I also disagree with the notion that all who like music are music haters. There's stuff I don't like, but hate is too strong a word for me. I try not to define my taste in music by what I hate, but rather what I like, and I think that goes for many if not most. As Starrynight mentions, writing off entire genres smells of ignorance to me and I think of it as something mainly kids who like to think they know music does.

I think the most irritated I've been in a discussion was with a self-proclaimed music lover who, during the discussion, dismissed all of prog and all of jazz music, all of romantic classical music and the only thing he seemed to like was baroque. That's not a music lover to me. At best, he was a baroque lover.