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Originally Posted by tore
I don't think it is overstated. I think people trying to live up to some (cool) idea of who they want to be, f.ex someone who appears knowledgeable about music (more than he/she really is), has a profound effect on peoples opinions and the way we discuss music, here and elsewhere.
I think personal taste in music is something that is very strongly tied to ones self-image and if you want to appear cool, that's something one can groom as well.
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Tore, I know you're a prog fan. Let's use a band like Yes for an example.
If a Yes fan around your own age said to you 'I love their 70s stuff but I don't really like their 80s output & I thought Tormato was utter rubbish.' would you think he was saying that just to be cool. Or would you just think that it was a pretty common opinion based on the quality of work that band released then.
They wouldn't have been around in the 70s to listen to that band either and became new to the band at some point so essentially that person is the same as the teenage Metallica fan now.
Is it not fair to say a lot of the reasons people say things like these is because they like the same aspects of the band that most other people do.
For example I liked Metallica when they had a rawness, which their first 3 albums had. Is it possible that the a lot of the reason people love about Metallica was their early rawness, and once that was gone they lost interest with each passing album?