MicShazam will listen to anything.

**Frownland** · 12-27-2018, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

What's with this lame gotcha ****? I digs it for all the reasons I digs it.

Reason Number 1

The Batlord · 12-27-2018, 02:16 PM

Sounds to me like you just have a limited ability to appreciate aesthetics.

**Frownland** · 12-27-2018, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

Sounds to me like you just have a limited ability to appreciate aesthetics.

Reason Number 2

The Batlord · 12-27-2018, 02:21 PM

I do like somersaults.

~~MicShazam~~ · 12-27-2018, 02:24 PM

I think I have great difficulty speaking about what I like or don't like about music because it all comes down to how it feels to listen to it. Why does Suzanne Vega speak to me while Bob Dylan bores me? Because I like how Suzanne Vega's music sounds and feels, while I don't in the case of Dylan. All talk of structure, production qualities and many other things feel like secondary concerns that I turn to because at least they're tangible.

My approach to music listening is very non-intellectual. That's why I don't have anything interesting to say.

**Frownland** · 12-27-2018, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

I think I have great difficulty speaking about what I like or don't like about music because it all comes down to how it feels to listen to it. Why does Suzanne Vega speak to me while Bob Dylan bores me? Because I like how Suzanne Vega's music sounds and feels, while I don't in the case of Dylan. All talk of structure, production qualities and many other things feel like secondary concerns that I turn to because at least they're tangible.

My approach to music listening is very non-intellectual. That's why I don't have anything interesting to say.

You know how I feel about making music discussion more interesting than likes and dislikes, but intellectualizing music can be rewarding on a personal level too. Recognizing why you do or don't like something is a good way to set you on the right path towards more things that you do enjoy. For example, the connection between hip hop and ambient music may not be very obvious, but if you recognize that you like some hip hop artists because of their dreamy, ethereal production, then trying to find more dreamy, ethereal music could lead you directly to ambient music where you might have ignored it before.

Anteater · 12-27-2018, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

You know how I feel about making music discussion more interesting than likes and dislikes, but intellectualizing music can be rewarding on a personal level too. Recognizing why you do or don't like something is a good way to set you on the right path towards more things that you do enjoy. For example, the connection between hip hop and ambient music may not be very obvious, but if you recognize that you like some hip hop artists because of their dreamy, ethereal production, then trying to find dreamy, ethereal music could lead you directly to ambient music where you might have ignored it before.

Billy Graham-led megachurch.

~~MicShazam~~ · 12-27-2018, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

You know how I feel about making music discussion more interesting than likes and dislikes, but intellectualizing music can be rewarding on a personal level too. Recognizing why you do or don't like something is a good way to set you on the right path towards more things that you do enjoy. For example, the connection between hip hop and ambient music is not very obvious, but if you recognize that you like some hip hop artists because of their dreamy, ethereal production, then trying to find dreamy, ethereal music could lead you directly to ambient music where you might have ignored it before.

Sure thing. And I can see the connection between some hip hop and ambient.

I've spent a lot of time over the years trying to put into words what it is that I do or do not enjoy in music, but it seems very elusive and hard to pin down in more ways than not.

There are some sonic characteristics that seem to cross genre boundaries, that scratch my itch, but they're hard to explain as well.

Why is it for example that I am so fascinated by that Søs Fenger song that I've been posting several times recently?

Søs Fenger - Sidste Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCjaFIt2_bQ

It's not like I generally like similar kinds of music (this song is basically adult contemporary and that genre generally sucks), and I even find that beat that comes in after a while to be very weak. I love everything else. The subtle use of keyboards and bass guitar shares characteristics with several other things I like, but overall, it seems useless to use this song as a way to explain to anyone else what I like. Basically because it's hard to explain exactly what about it makes it into something so much more than just some vanilla easy listening, so it's just going to confuse things and give people the wrong idea of what I'm looking for.

Just look at how confused Anteater is that I love that Danish band, Sneakers, but don't care one iota about Toto. It's not easy to explain the difference in what I find to appreciate in those two bands, but it's a massive difference.

I'd love it if I could crack the code one day and figure out exactly what it is about music that tickles my balls.

Unitron · 12-27-2018, 04:48 PM

Neapolitan · 12-27-2018, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

I don't think there's any way I could react to this without you reacting like an offended little school girl, so I'm politely moving on.

I am very open minded. You can like it or not like it. I just don't like when you get all weird and shit in your reviews. And accusing me of acting like a school girl is case in point. The way the whole "offended little school girl" is my parody on you BTW. (Gee whiz some people up in here are dumb.

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I forgave you for acting weird and shit and gave it another go. Posting this video was like offering you the peace pipe and saying let's have another go at a discussion about our music interest. I now see you are not mature enough to do that. The very least you can do is not go full dumb ass troll on me and set out what you said you going to do and listen to the song... that's what this thread is about, you listening to anything. I guess reviewing is optional.

If you can appreciate shitty music, there should be no obstacle what so ever in liking this kind of music.

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~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,636	I think I have great difficulty speaking about what I like or don't like about music because it all comes down to how it feels to listen to it. Why does Suzanne Vega speak to me while Bob Dylan bores me? Because I like how Suzanne Vega's music sounds and feels, while I don't in the case of Dylan. All talk of structure, production qualities and many other things feel like secondary concerns that I turn to because at least they're tangible. My approach to music listening is very non-intellectual. That's why I don't have anything interesting to say.