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If you’re on here then odds are you have a liking of music that is off the popular radar. You’re probably even proud of that because that’s important in life.

Most of the music that’s blasted out of people’s car or building window is of the played out and popular variety. Have you ever approached somebody or thought about it simply because they are blaring a track featured in your off the radar collection? Maybe even created a backstory in your head of how they probably have a bunch of other things in common with you?

No, I have found that there is usually no connection between having a decent taste in music and being a good/interesting person.

What I do though, is that I brake off conversations I have, with ladies I chatted up, if they respond to the question: What music do you like? With: Oh, I like everything...

I think people with what I think of as crap taste in music can be good, kind people.

But I have nothing in common with them

Hmmm I been through a good few girlfriends in the last few years...

Some of them were complete crazies... doomed relationships.

But they liked Amon Tobin, Ninja Tunes, Aphex Twin, LJ Bukem.

And somehow I feel some sense of common identity with them still. I don't see them any more but we will still exchange soundcloud links or playlists.

Some of them were nice in many ways. But listened to the Monkees or Lionel Ritchie. They did not get electronic music; they could not understand it. And that seemed to be part of a sense that we had little in common.

My current GF is a complete honey pie. And she digs Massive Attack, Brian Eno, Squarepusher, and the KLF. (She also likes my tunes )

So yes. I don't think that sharing a taste in music I will share anything else with a person.

But sharing a taste in music is sharing a fuck of a lot.

TomViolenz wrote:I brake off conversations I have, with ladies I chatted up, if they respond to the question: What music do you like? With: Oh, I like everything...

i'm starting to notice a pattern with this one too. most of the time it means she has no taste or she likes pop music and/or country music a lot and doesn't want to admit it.

every now and then, one will surprise me that says it and actually mean something along the lines of:
i love Miles Davis/ Nina Simone/ KMFDM/ GWAR/ Gang Starr/ The White Stripes/ Danzig/ The Grateful Dead/ The Roots/ The Cure/ Lorde/ Rage Against the Machine/ Bob Marley/ Daft Punk/ The Dixie Chicks/ Urban Dance Squad/ 311/ Nancy Sinatra/ MF Doom/ Nelly Furtado/ Flock of Seagulls/ Taylor Swift/ Creedence Clearwater Revival/ NAS/ Chuck Berry/ Thievery Corporation/ The Band/ and Molemen type stuff.

i was recently blasting king crimson in my car when i pulled up at my house. this older guy says to me "wow, you like king crimson? how old are you?" he was a decade or two older than me. we started talking about music we like and now we regularly chat it up at the dog park. there's a bunch of music he listens to that i don't really care for (genesis/peter gabriel type of stuff), and i'm sure there's a ton of music i like that he would hate (hiphop, breakcore, etc.), but that common ground definitely broke through a barrier that would not have otherwise been broken through. i'm even considering inviting him over to listen to records.

No, I just shoot 'em

No, I have found that there is usually no connection between having a decent taste in music and being a good/interesting person.

This should be recognized more often.

What I do though, is that I brake off conversations I have, with ladies I chatted up, if they respond to the question: What music do you like? With: Oh, I like everything...

I understand, even though it's a little contradictory.

But how many times have y'all heard this?

I like everything......except country and rap

And then there are some who like, or at least list, some bands considered to be quirky, edgy and non-mainstream compared to mainstream music, but in reality it's still pretty mainstream (over upper mid-stream?) because they don't want to sound mainstream. Like a suburban chick saying radiohead 10 years ago. (I just checked, OK Computer came out in 97, I thought it was early to mid 2000's, where does the time go???), but the turn off is that they're trying to sound cool by what they consider to be hipster, not what they're listing. I don't really have to deal with this anymore given my age and I would hope the women in my bracket have outgrown that, (sadly, many haven't, but then again I still act like a baby when it comes to corporate dress codes, despite being quite dashing in a suit).

But even on a shallow level when it comes to assessing someone by their music taste, you can't really judge someones character by what kind of music they like (although you can make some safe assumptions )

If I was choking on a freak siamese Chicken McNugget™ and there was only one person there that could administer the Heimlich maneuver, I wouldn't push them away and write down on a napkin 'what kind of music do you like?' and if they said

everything except country and rap

I wouldn't deny them the Heimlich.

I dunno, if they say "avril latrine" I'm pretty much holding judgment.

Does this include them being past their 20's?

Would you conclude they're a horrible person or should we avoid keeping it on that serious a level? Because sure, at that point I'd be kind of intrigued to know more about them just to see if there are developmental issues or not.

Generally I give women a pass on music taste. Usually* its a very low priority to them and when they do have music taste that is off the popular radar it's usually the result of some guy they dated or hang out with.

And this topic is going in the opposite direction. I'm not talking about grilling people about their musical taste. I'm talking about people who "I don't give a fuck" and decide to share it with everybody within 50 feet of them.




*I don't need a laundry list of exceptions to the rule. Its a time tested and proven rule.

No.

So it's gotta be all serious like that?

Ok

I don't ever say anything to those people because I'm afraid of getting the cops called on me. I have a house on the corner that has an "enabler" and her whore of a daughter is constantly having parties. They are all the same, loud shitty music, getting too high, she gets all pissed at everyone and causes a big scene. The cops don't want anything to do with it.

If it were up to me? I'd shoot 'em. Since they think they are all gangsta like dat I'm not sure if I'd get a bullet through the head or whatever. So I'm half afraid and have mad as fuck.

When I was a kid and had the stereo up, people could approach me and I'd turn it down. It's not like now where you have to be in fear because people are fucking crazy.

I don't even think about the POS cars going up and down the street. I've gotten to where I just block those out. There are so many of them.

Well given that it's mostly cars where I hear someone else playing music, that's the only time I could apply the situation.
Also the only time I've approached someone is because their dog won't stop barking, and I have her phone number, because she's my building manager and she lives right next door.

Do I dare mention this w/o the WRATH of certain lounge memembers?

Sometimes, rarely, those cars are playing something other than rap or rap/dance or whatever that EDM/with rap stuff is called. I'm always amazed. Still pisses me off that they are playing too loud Get off my lawn!!

I don't mind if people are blaring music, it's just meh that it turns out to be something...meh.
I actually like when some have their subs blared and you can't hear anything else, BUT, if your windows are rattling then I think less of them because there's a certain lack of respect towards quality, and that equals lack of self-respect. It's sort of like someone who adds gangsta rims to a POS car. You're fucked in the head if you don't see how that's wrong.
It's like a virgin bragging about shagging tons of chicks and being a pimp.

If you want to have a bad ass system, do your research, and do the appropriate assessments. Of course for most of these clowns the system is just a means of trying to express status. How do you expect anyone to think you're not a POSER when your ride can't handle the bass or the car doesn't match the rims? Cognitive dissonance.
When I don't hear windows rattling to bass shaking the buildings, I see a shiny purple caddy with tinted windows and spinning rims. When I hear windows rattling I see a Plymouth Horizon with spinning rims. This is not a coincidence. It's probably not a coincidence Horizon sells shwag full of stems and seeds, either. Have some self-respect, for the love of Pete.

Every now and then, a real pimp will come by to make the exception. No rattling.