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Originally Posted by Trollheart
No. Mood has nothing to do with me. If I'm depressed I can usually listen to a slow instrumental but could as easily listen to Iron Maiden or Tom Waits. It's seldom if at all that I fit music to my mood, though of course particular albums/tracks may AFFECT my mood, ie sad songs etc.
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Very strange. Musically affects me differently depending on how I'm feeling. I love ambient music but I wouldn't want to listen to it when I'm going partying.
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
That's true as well, with the oft-quoted-by-me example of Phil Collins' "Face value". But what I think we're saying here is that if you listen to a NEW album (to you) first time and HATE it --- I mean don't see anything good in it at all --- then why push yourself to like it? I know this is not what you're saying but the overall consensus often seems to be "you'll like it if you spin it a few more times." That may be true, but I'd rather go with my formulated opinion made by listening to the album once than try to keep listening to it to make myself eventually like it.
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I can understand this and I'm sure everyone has albums they've heard once and shelved. But, atleast in my case, it's more about my music tastes expanding and so I'll revisit albums that previously hadn't hit me. When I first listened to Spiderland i didn't really like it much. As I started to like new things like Talk Talk and Godspeed and such I thought may as well try it again. It had been atleast a year since my last listen. And so maybe this was another first listen for me. I just remember not liking it but nothing specific on why. And this new listen hit me hard. And I've loved it ever since.
It's easy to dislike something immediately but it's also easy to hold that initial reaction longer than you even remember what it was you disliked about it in the first place. It's like how you can say you hate mushrooms but if you haven't eaten a mushroom in years how does that opinion have any legs? Sure you can continue to not eat them, and that's probably reasonable, but hey maybe you've grown to like them.
My main point is it's less about forcing yourself like something, but rather giving it time for a fresh start. I refuse to believe that anyone's music taste stays stagnant and never changes throughout their whole life. Idk maybe I just value music growth more than the average person