Originally Posted by MicShazam

I'm thinking it's down to what I tend to focus on the most when I listen to music. There has got to be a way to explain any given person's taste in music without actually mentioning any genres or instruments. Or perhaps rather; explain a person's "musical sensibilities" or however you would put it.

I think I focus a lot more on harmonic and melodic interplay than most people do - especially when it comes to harmony. I'm relatively less about rhythm and texture and barely pay attention to lyrics at all. It makes sense that I'm seemingly slowly getting more and more interested in classical music, jazz and world music, while caring very little about most flavors of rock. Post punk is usually pretty harmonically repetitive and melodically simplistic - which isn't really criticism but simply means that the genre puts it's focus elsewhere.

Not that I'm sure how to explain my musical tastes in this way, but it's something that I've been thinking about now and again. I guess I find it interesting.

That's enough rambling for now. Tl;dr - I don't think I've got anything against post punk in particular, it's just that it maybe doesn't play so much to the elements of music that speak to me the most.