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Originally Posted by Ninetales
I wonder if saying "I listen to lots of things" or "i like Yellow Swans and Immolation" is more of a conversation killer. It has nothing to do with feeling above anyone else, it's just a safe way to cover more bases without being immediately pigeon-holed. Should I be listing off every genre I like listening to?
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List the base genres, just give examples. Punk, Rock, Metal, Blues, Jazz, Hip Hop, etc, it'll usually go off from there.
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Originally Posted by Carpe Mortem
I don't tell people my favorite genre is doom because the average person isn't familiar with nerdy subgenres, I'll usually just say I like Black Sabbath and their offspring.
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Just tell them you listen to Metal, and if you say what kind of Metal you prefer , tell them what Doom Metal basically is in a sentence or two, I don't think it would be that difficult.
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
I don't know man. I really passionately like a lot of different things. That's what makes it hard for me to name a favorite genre or band, not superficiality. The only way I feel that I can truly answer questions about favorites is to give a very long-winded answer and I know most people aren't interested in hearing that.
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You can still just give examples of things or genres you've listened to. At least start with the base genres, there''s a lot less of them to list than sub genres :P. Then people will usually ask about one of the base genres you like. Just explain yourself, just tell that your examples are not fully representative, but just to give an idea. If they don't know about a band, you can always give a short explenation, just to give them an idea.
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Originally Posted by Black Francis
All you need is a couple of solid references Janzoon.
Though i don't entirely know your music taste i know you like The Talking Heads and TMBG and it's cause you mentioned them but if i didn't know you and you told me exactly what you said
"i like a lot of stuff. Jazz, metal, hip hop, punk, electronica—you name it."
i would've rolled my eyes at you. 
So am i to an extent 
i had a friend who was really into Creed back when they were popular and i once told him i thought Creed was a decent band. 
I quickly regretted saying it cause he started talking to me about their songs and he was so genuinely into it i just couldn't tell him i actually hated the band.
From that little experience i learned if i don't like a band somebody loves i rather don't say anything than pretend i like them too.
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I have a friend that listens to a lot of k-pop/j-pop and electronic music, which he knows I'm not a fan of, but I don't flat out say what I really think about some of those artists. At least we found one band in common: Maximum the Hormone.
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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle
I don't even know everything. For example, I have never considered diving into the traditional music of Vanuatu.
And I am incredibly pretentious, every second. Every single week, there is literally never more than one color band photo on my last.fm's top artists of the last 7 days.
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That's what I mean, I know you listen to a ****load of music, and even then you barely know every genre that exists.
The thing is, I mostly hear this phrase from people who don't know much about music. People who barely ever even listen to albums. They just don't know.
Either that or..someone pretentious, so you're sort of right. Once I even got someone that whined about genre labelling and how genres were pointless...I guess it's a defence mechanism for calling a pretentious person out on this..*sigh*.