Self Improvement For Your Listening Experience

[meccalecca]

[Happymeal]

[Guest]

I fucking love Christmas music. Well, I love it the way I love Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen...I never actually listen to it, but I love belting it out at random moments. Though I think in general I prefer Christmas music to Queen.

I'll give any genre a chance, but there are certain lyrical themes and "vibes" that I just steer away from. Every music has a different viewpoint or feeling. I can't stand the sort of "Yeah! *guitar* Yeah!" type of stuff and though I'm trying really hard to get into rap, most of the stuff I've listened to I just find vulgar. Yes, I'm sensitive and conservative-ish (not politically or anything, I just think people should try to be a little more refined and less like hooligans). Anyways, I started off my musical journey with nu-metal being my favourite genre. I liked Korn and such. Daddy was such a twisted song, I haven't a clue why I subjected myself to that. XD I mean, I don't feel ashamed for it; I enjoyed it then, I ought not to regret it. Even though the only band from those days I still like is System of a Down (not really nu-metal, but I listened to things of that ilk - Disturbed and such too) Anyways, from there I went to classic rock for some reason. My favourite bands at that point were System of a Down and The Beatles. That really was a lovely combination. After listening to bunches of classic rock I became obsessed with progressive rock and I got really into Pink Floyd (so much that I bought their entire discography ) The Wall was my favourite, because I was still fresh out of that nu-metal and classic rock daze, plus I was an emotional kid. At the same time, Tayyab (Eggman) was feeding me all the experimental stuff he liked, so for a while it was kind of a mix of Pink Floyd and things like that, and soon all the experimental stuff made me favor early Pink Floyd, and then I became obsessed with Radiohead and Tool, and then I didn't like Tool as much, but I still liked Radiohead...And then I became obsessed with Syd Barrett's solo albums, and from there I decided that folk was my favourite. Then I discovered things like Neutral Milk Hotel, and adored it. Then came Joanna Newsom (still probably my favourite artist tied with Vashti Bunyan). And then I started listening to some weird atmospheric electronic thingies, and loved them (I had already heard and loved Irrlicht by Klaus Schulze earlier on)...And yeah. I listen to music.

FYI, this is probably chronologically fucked.

Oh, and actually answering the above questions...Music is music. It all comes down to what you like, as when I mentioned the "vibes" above. Sure some music is simpler than others, but then simpler music can be acclaimed (see: Punk) and innovative. So yeah, whatever you like. I think it's best to be open, but I don't think music aims to be easy or difficult. The artist aims to make what they like.