Why does my musical taste reject newer stuff??? - Music

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I see trying a new style like planting a seed in your brain. The first time you hear it is when it is planted. You now know it exists and what sounds like. If this style is genuinely new to you, you are very unlikely to enjoy it, as it is just a seed and it has not grown yet. Repeated exposure to the style is like watering the seed. Soon enough it will grow roots. This is you learning to not only recognize the style, but also understand it - not just logically, but emotionally. By the time the tree starts to grow, the style of music means something different. You no longer just enjoy it, you get a fix out of it. You WANT to hear it. At some point you want to hear more enough so where you grow branches. You listen to subgenres, and as many different takes on the genre as possible. Unfortunately and eventually, however, the tree can grow old. The style does nothing for you anymore. You want it, but it's just not the same. You become hard to please. You want something juicier and tastier, you want to get that fix out of music again. You plant a new seed of a new genre of music.

drakonium

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I had the same problem several months ago. However, my tastes evolved kind of naturally, from Deep Purple and Led Zep to Bowie, Genesis or The Clash. I stayed in the 70's, but with genres which deviated from hard rock. And then I began interested in more recent bands, like Arcade Fire, The White Stripes or The Flaming Lips. I didn't like any of those six artists at first listen. I just listened to them some time after the first time (some days for Bowie, some weeks for The Clash, some months for The Flaming Lips), and I said to myself "How the fuck did I manage not to love that?"

Don't try too hard to love other music genres. Just try something new at times, and one day, without expecting it, you'll find it. You'll find that hip-hop album you'll fall in love with, or that 2000's indie band without an annoying voice. I did, my friends did, you will, don't worry. Just make sure to enjoy what you listen, and the rest will follow. Maybe more slowly than other people, but trust me, if you love music, that will work Wink

Defago

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The Poe wrote:

I see trying a new style like planting a seed in your brain. The first time you hear it is when it is planted. You now know it exists and what sounds like. If this style is genuinely new to you, you are very unlikely to enjoy it, as it is just a seed and it has not grown yet. Repeated exposure to the style is like watering the seed. Soon enough it will grow roots. This is you learning to not only recognize the style, but also understand it - not just logically, but emotionally. By the time the tree starts to grow, the style of music means something different. You no longer just enjoy it, you get a fix out of it. You WANT to hear it. At some point you want to hear more enough so where you grow branches. You listen to subgenres, and as many different takes on the genre as possible. Unfortunately and eventually, however, the tree can grow old. The style does nothing for you anymore. You want it, but it's just not the same. You become hard to please. You want something juicier and tastier, you want to get that fix out of music again. You plant a new seed of a new genre of music.

Being an economist, I have actually done charts on music enjoyment related to exposure to that genre, but your tree analogy is pretty good too.

Jasonconfused

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Location: Washington

The Poe wrote:

I see trying a new style like planting a seed in your brain. The first time you hear it is when it is planted. You now know it exists and what sounds like. If this style is genuinely new to you, you are very unlikely to enjoy it, as it is just a seed and it has not grown yet. Repeated exposure to the style is like watering the seed. Soon enough it will grow roots. This is you learning to not only recognize the style, but also understand it - not just logically, but emotionally. By the time the tree starts to grow, the style of music means something different. You no longer just enjoy it, you get a fix out of it. You WANT to hear it. At some point you want to hear more enough so where you grow branches. You listen to subgenres, and as many different takes on the genre as possible. Unfortunately and eventually, however, the tree can grow old. The style does nothing for you anymore. You want it, but it's just not the same. You become hard to please. You want something juicier and tastier, you want to get that fix out of music again. You plant a new seed of a new genre of music.

This is good stuff. I will definitely take your advice here.

drakonium wrote:

I had the same problem several months ago. However, my tastes evolved kind of naturally, from Deep Purple and Led Zep to Bowie, Genesis or The Clash. I stayed in the 70's, but with genres which deviated from hard rock. And then I began interested in more recent bands, like Arcade Fire, The White Stripes or The Flaming Lips. I didn't like any of those six artists at first listen. I just listened to them some time after the first time (some days for Bowie, some weeks for The Clash, some months for The Flaming Lips), and I said to myself "How the fuck did I manage not to love that?"

Don't try too hard to love other music genres. Just try something new at times, and one day, without expecting it, you'll find it. You'll find that hip-hop album you'll fall in love with, or that 2000's indie band without an annoying voice. I did, my friends did, you will, don't worry. Just make sure to enjoy what you listen, and the rest will follow. Maybe more slowly than other people, but trust me, if you love music, that will work Wink

I've actually used this exact approach so far. It's actually quite uncanny how we've gone about this in a similar way. I've always loved Zeppelin and Deep Purple and only recently started listening to Bowie and The Clash in order to try to expand my musical taste. I'm not quite at The Flaming Lips yet. I checked them out and wasn't too impressed (at least not yet).

Saoirse

Jasonconfused wrote:

I checked them out. I mean, I can tell that they're good at what they do, but it's what they do that I can't really get behind. It's probably a close-minded way to approach music but the absence of a guitar really turns me off.

Did you only listen to White Chalk by PJ? Everyone besides Grouper has a noticeable guitar sound, although with Lauryn Hill it's applied subtly (and often in samples)... even Grouper though has the occasional acoustic riff on Dragging a Dead Deer

videoheadcleaner

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Jasonconfused wrote:

I've actually used this exact approach so far. It's actually quite uncanny how we've gone about this in a similar way. I've always loved Zeppelin and Deep Purple and only recently started listening to Bowie and The Clash in order to try to expand my musical taste. I'm not quite at The Flaming Lips yet. I checked them out and wasn't too impressed (at least not yet).

Joe Strummer's solo work is also good.

Spend time here and you will find new music. I also found that last.fm has helped with their recommendations page. Found many new artists I like there.

I came to this site only knowing a handful of acts really (Muse, Elbow, The Cure, Crowded House etc) and I still love these bands. But just being here and allowing myself to experience (not force weird genres upon myself) different genres, I have grown to love new artists. Foetus, Tim Hecker, Talk Talk and Scott Walker have been discoveries for me from this site and now, those artists have been my foundation for exploration in industrial, ambient, post-rock and experimental music.

Find something you like. Just because everyone loves a certain album, doesn't mean you need to.

Guest

The Black Keys can help you get into the newer stuff (though, I don't mean the album by Michael Nesmith).

tbakeman

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Location: Cleveland

I feel the exact same way all the time. That music will never die from people like us.