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Just recently, I've noticed that I am totally at a loss to explain why I like things. I can't get beyond the "I like that, it's cool"...but I'd like to say why I think it's cool, or why I don't like something. I can rack my brains, but still don't come up with anything...I think perhaps I have written too many essays at university where "there is no right or wrong answer" and have become far too complacent...you see, I'm still trying to write a C90 article, and at the moment it's just a list of songs. Any tips for being more critical, verbose etc. most welcome!

Do you ever feel this way?

― jel --, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Causes my girlfriend some consternation. She gets upset cause she doesn't have strong opinions and I 'do'. But I don't, I just Wankiage. Two adjectives where none would suffice. If you're unsure, just describe something that would sound good even if it doesn't remotely resemble what yr describing. Err, inarticulacy, gripping, now. Sorry. Good thread, interested to see replies.

― david h, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Reasons" for liking things = insufferably rockist

(equations = articulism not required)

― Graham, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It may well be rockist Graham!

But, I think I have come up with a more precise sense of what I mean here. I feel that I would be able to analyse the success and popularity of a band, be detached and objective, look at sells figures, interviews with the bands and fans, do a questionnaire or in- depth interviews (that's way more rockist, is it not?). But, I don’t think in this case that anyone would give two hoots about a SWOT analysis of Bon Jovi. The flipside of actually being the interviewee and accessing the personal appears to be the difficulty. I don’t wanna be Spock! I'm looking for the personal why? I know it's there!

― jel --, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six months pass...

any luck jel?

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 02:47 (twenty-three years ago)

my vocabulary is stunted because i do not read nearly enough.

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 03:55 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread makes me go "YES" like I have just seen twenty-seven truckloads of arctic circle candy. When I try to get any further than YES all I can do is mimic david h's suggestions and obfuscate whatever point I might think I have with many overlong and unpunctuated paragraphs of irrelevant and unreadably poorly written mush. This is how all my attempts at writing go, alas. So, er, like, YES, as in NO, no, I'm not. Weep. More replies, please?

― Rebecca (reb), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 04:04 (twenty-three years ago)

haha what rebecca said (=> laced with envy of her pokey/DotT SKILLZ/etc)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 04:13 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i luv pokey, i wonder what he's up to these days

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 04:27 (twenty-three years ago)

dott = day of the tentacle?

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 04:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Like the Readers' Digest Expand Your Word-Power feature, this thread is really, really good.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Jel's idea of music reviews as management reports (SWOT etc) is not only fantastic but U&K, especially if it incorporates graphs. Venn diagrams are a must.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

... but the report should be on the quality of the music rather than (or as well as) market positioning etc.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

no luck yet, josh. I'm thinking of starting a blog (for the last x number of years). I can come up with titles, but not much in the way of content. It will be called "evil plans of planet jel". Maybe I'll just do a SWOT analysis or a 5 Forces analysis, or just evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Journey.

I have since I posted this come to realise that I like rock.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

You could go back to things you read/heard when you were a little kid and go "maybe that is why it has this effect upon me" or something like that, but it really spoils the fun.

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

Oh, writing is easier these days, though I doubt the absolute qualities of my words. I have a notebook which I write reviews in. I am currently working on a review of "Presents for the Poison-hearted" bu Cradle of Filth and a piece called "The Frank and Walters and Me".

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 16 March 2003 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

sometimes i find it difficult to explain why i like things (which in my case would be certain types of music i enjoy). the reasons are often very confused.

Its important to try and articulate things but I don't get hung up if its not well thought out. At least by talking abt it you can get discussion going. its good to get feedback and that keeps things interesting for me.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 8 June 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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