Do your ideals get in the way of your listening?

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How much is your musical choice based on your pure enjoyment of music itself, and how much is it based on your mental attitudes towards a band or genre? Have you ever rejected a band's music due to their behavior, stated goals, category, or anything else apart from the sounds? Have you ever made yourself enjoy (or at least listen to) music for any of those reasons?

Is that intellectual honesty or mere snobbery?

― Lyra, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not sure if there is a working definition for the *pure* enjoyment of music. Cut off from a band's image, ideals or behavior, music alone still speaks to us beyond pure visceral sonics. This is a big subjective soup.

― A. Honda, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I’m popping my posting cherry on this board with this response, so please be kind.

I think everyone does it, or has done it – reject a band/artist/outfit/group (I can never keep up with the technical terms of these things) based on something other than the music. I used to be a shocker for it in my teens, and it was snobbery – I had a warped idea that it somehow made me more credible if I was able to say that I only liked a particular genre. I look back on that time and think I was crazy. Yeah, I was crazy. Since leaving that band, my taste in music grew into a 16-headed monster, which grows bigger every day.

Nowadays though, I feel much happier about the notion of liking everything – or at least finding positives in every sort of music. It’s a lot easier to say ‘I like that single, but they seem like total twats.’ And just buy the single to have it to listen to when I feel like it, than simply writing off an entire genre.

Maybe I’ve just turned into a music slut and am now willing to get it on with anything and everything? If that’s the case, then I’m enjoying it and should probably be getting paid for it.

― Mascara, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

could you post have more sexual metaphors please?

― ethan, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It can go the other way. For instance, some music broke down my vulgar hippy-phobia a bit. I mean like 'Future' by the Seeds.

― maryann, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...& now yr a hippy?

― duane, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am now boycotting Kraftwerk because I fucking hate cyclists.

Actually, the ones who do racing are the biggest drug pigs around, so they're still OK I guess.

― dave q, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mascara, I feel just like you do!

― Kodanshi, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

could you post have more sexual metaphors please?

-- ethan (ethanp@bellsouth.net), July 28, 2001.

I didn't realise I was doing it. Sorry, never do. Oops!

― Mascara, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't have any ideals. I'm a filthy whoooooooooooooooooooooore.

― Nick Southall, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick,

I hear ya baby. It's good to be a slut. The filthier the better.

― Mascara, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It does to an extent, but it won't stop me liking Ludacris (in an instant-impact sense) in the end.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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