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Originally Posted by elphenor
I respect people with very niche tastes over someone with broad tastes
even though the latter seems to be held up as the test more often
feel like tastes should become refined not just in music but across most things
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You can have both broad and niche tastes, though. A wide variety of genres, spanning both niche and more above ground artists and styles.
I guess, given the premise of this whole discussion over the last several pages, that I'd say I respect broad tastes more than anything specific like a taste for avant garde. If someone has broad tastes, they would seem able to give a variety of things a shot and grow to like them. That's really all I need to take someone seriously. If a hypothetical other person knew everything about avant garde and jazz, but didn't really listen to anything else, I'd rather listen to the musical opinions of the person with very broad tastes.
So basically I respect the musical opinions of everyone on MB. No one in here seems musically closed minded to me. I don't think so at least. I don't have a good grasp of the tastes of every single member.