is my taste in music good?

[Kajt]

In my opinion, it's okay. But...

The basic rule is this: if you like it, it's awesome. If you don't, it sucks.
Music is 100% subjective.

 

[Darth Caelum]

It doesn't matter whether you're tastes are "Good or Bad". As long as you enjoy them, then it's fine.

 

[Trivun]

While we're on the subject, is there anyone else here aside from me who likes the Klaxons? I really got into them a while back after 'Totem on the Timeline' and 'Golden Skans', then I spent more time today listening to 'It's Not Over Yet' on Radio 1 than I did actual revision this afternoon. And yet so few people who I know are fans of those guys...

 

[Ironic Pirate]

It's fine. Those groups aren't really my style, but they're good at their kind.

 

[the Dept of Science]

If you have to ask...

Seriously though why would you give a damn what your friends (or anyone else for that matter) thinks about something you like? If you enjoy it then surely that's all that's important?

Those are knock-off bands. Your taste is okay, but you could be listening to better versions of the genres you appear to like.

This makes no sense whatsoever. It implies that people should listen to music by genre, and as such should only choose the best of that genre (which is subjective anyway) and not listen to anything else.

I don't understand peoples need to always have the "best" when it comes to entertainment

There is easily enough good music in the world that you don't need to spend precious time listen to anything mediocre. There's nothing wrong with saying that if someone likes a band, they may like a band who play similar things better.
If given a choice between driving a Ford Panda and a Bentley, you would be crazy to choose the Panda. However, if you were in a race, you may want a Ferrari or Bugatti instead.
In other words, there is no reason that you shouldn't seek out the bands that are best, but depending on your mood and tastes, they will be good for different reasons.[/torturedanalogy]

 

[Kair]

Music can be rated by complexity.

It is a common misconception that what people listen to is music.

A poem is not music --> rhythmical poems are not music --> rap and its likes are not music.

You must have both rhythm and melody to have music. If you want quality music you need polyphony and variation.

Your choices are not the likes of Hip Hop nor R&B nor Techno, so I can say that you already have the basis for good music taste.

 

[LeaderBlood]

Music is all opinion...I don't like any of those bands

 

[BonsaiK]

Music can be rated by complexity.

It is a common misconception that what people listen to is music.

A poem is not music --> rhythmical poems are not music --> rap and its likes are not music.

You must have both rhythm and melody to have music. If you want quality music you need polyphony and variation.

Your choices are not the likes of Hip Hop nor R&B nor Techno, so I can say that you already have the basis for good music taste.

Edgard Varese's Ionisation is therefore not music to you?

 

[Palademon]

I personally think your taste is find. Mine is rock based. I'm only really against music if a large group of people are singing it and they suck at it.

 

[not_the_dm]

i have been arguing about my taste in music with a few guys, so i have to check if i was right.
is my taste in music good or bad?
i like the killers, coldplay, onerepublic and gorillaz.
i like more but htose are my faves

Well I don't consider it good but that's irrelevant.

The basic rule is this: if you like it, it's awesome. If you don't, it sucks.

Music is 100% subjective.

Agreed. Just remember that rap isn't music, it's speaking to a rythm.

 

[BonsaiK]

i have been arguing about my taste in music with a few guys, so i have to check if i was right.
is my taste in music good or bad?
i like the killers, coldplay, onerepublic and gorillaz.
i like more but htose are my faves

Well I don't consider it good but that's irrelevant.

The basic rule is this: if you like it, it's awesome. If you don't, it sucks.

Music is 100% subjective.

Agreed. Just remember that rap isn't music, it's speaking to a rythm.

So rhythm isn't music? Try telling a drum teacher that.

 

[Aggressor and Usurper]

I hate those bands.
Nontheless, you're entitled to your taste. I like metal, you like...that stuff.
Music is all a matter of opinion and taste.

 

[Legion]

If you have to ask...

Seriously though why would you give a damn what your friends (or anyone else for that matter) thinks about something you like? If you enjoy it then surely that's all that's important?

Those are knock-off bands. Your taste is okay, but you could be listening to better versions of the genres you appear to like.

This makes no sense whatsoever. It implies that people should listen to music by genre, and as such should only choose the best of that genre (which is subjective anyway) and not listen to anything else.

I don't understand peoples need to always have the "best" when it comes to entertainment

There is easily enough good music in the world that you don't need to spend precious time listen to anything mediocre. There's nothing wrong with saying that if someone likes a band, they may like a band who play similar things better.
If given a choice between driving a Ford Panda and a Bentley, you would be crazy to choose the Panda. However, if you were in a race, you may want a Ferrari or Bugatti instead.
In other words, there is no reason that you shouldn't seek out the bands that are best, but depending on your mood and tastes, they will be good for different reasons.[/torturedanalogy]

Except the difference is that a car has a purpose. If you like speed you will want a faster car, if you need to transport a lot of things then you will want something with space.

Music is purely based upon whether or not the sound appeals to you, you can't objectively say which is better, whereas with a car you can based upon what it is you are after.

Nobody would say that a Ferrari is better at transporting large quantities things than a Land Rover unless they were trying to be awkward.

Whereas with music you cannot say one band is completely better than another. My favourite band Assemblage 23 makes a lot of good songs I like. There is another band called VNV Nation that has one or two songs that I like just as much if not more than a lot of Assemblage 23's.

To suggest I avoid the latter band because the former is better is ridiculous.

 

[the Dept of Science]

Agreed. Just remember that rap isn't music, it's speaking to a rythm.

That's as true as saying that heavy metal is just screaming and white noise, that classical is just violins playing melodies, that jazz is just people making stuff up as they go along, that punk is just 3 chords and shouting.

 

[not_the_dm]

i have been arguing about my taste in music with a few guys, so i have to check if i was right.
is my taste in music good or bad?
i like the killers, coldplay, onerepublic and gorillaz.
i like more but htose are my faves

Well I don't consider it good but that's irrelevant.

The basic rule is this: if you like it, it's awesome. If you don't, it sucks.

Music is 100% subjective.

Agreed. Just remember that rap isn't music, it's speaking to a rythm.

So rhythm isn't music? Try telling a drum teacher that.

Typo. I meant to write 'speaking overa rhythm'. The rhythm itself is part of the music but the speaking isn't. Just out of intrest, are drummers allowed in the Musician's Union yet? I know they didn't used to be but has it been changed?

[sub]Oh dear. I spelt rhythm wrong, and I've got my As Music written paper in a fortnight...[/sub]

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Modest Mouse

Haha, funny you should mention that because they've been the band I've listen to most of for the past six months.

Going off on a little tangent, what's your favourite album by them? I ask this because I've listened to almost everyone so far, Lonesome Crowded West was my favourite, but I can't get into WWDBTSES (Ship Even Sank) at all, which is odd because I love their newest EP which came out AFTER that one... so is it just not as good as the rest, or am I just not doing it right!?

 

[BonsaiK]

i have been arguing about my taste in music with a few guys, so i have to check if i was right.
is my taste in music good or bad?
i like the killers, coldplay, onerepublic and gorillaz.
i like more but htose are my faves

Well I don't consider it good but that's irrelevant.

The basic rule is this: if you like it, it's awesome. If you don't, it sucks.

Music is 100% subjective.

Agreed. Just remember that rap isn't music, it's speaking to a rythm.

So rhythm isn't music? Try telling a drum teacher that.

Typo. I meant to write 'speaking overa rhythm'. The rhythm itself is part of the music but the speaking isn't. Just out of intrest, are drummers allowed in the Musician's Union yet? I know they didn't used to be but has it been changed?

[sub]Oh dear. I spelt rhythm wrong, and I've got my As Music written paper in a fortnight...[/sub]

You're evading the point. Why is the rhythm of a voice not music to you, when the rhythm of someone hitting a drum skin is?

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I would say that your taste in music is not bad but it is not very expansive or exciting.

 

[Kair]

Music can be rated by complexity.

It is a common misconception that what people listen to is music.

A poem is not music --> rhythmical poems are not music --> rap and its likes are not music.

You must have both rhythm and melody to have music. If you want quality music you need polyphony and variation.

Your choices are not the likes of Hip Hop nor R&B nor Techno, so I can say that you already have the basis for good music taste.

Edgard Varese's Ionisation is therefore not music to you?

Ionisation is more of a rhythmic complex according to what seems like a logical definition of music. It does have some variation in tone due to different instruments being used, but not enough to create melody, just enough to complicate the rhythm.