what are the ingredients to good music?

Re chat-up lines, I asked my mum this when I was 11...& her reply was "Hi there good lookin'". I can't believe I've just told everyone this...

Those I have on my music list right now are: The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Nick Drake, Tiny Tim, Brute Force, Burzum, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston, Wild Man Fischer, Harry Partch, Hasil Adkins, Jandek, Joe Meek, Mayhem, Pink Floyd (w/ Syd Barrett only), Syd Barrett, The Shaggs, and Wesley Willis. Others I like are The Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, David Bowie, The Southern Death Cult, Eric Pounder, Monte Cazazza, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel.

Pickup lines: "I've watched you dancing there for quite a while, and it seems obvious that you CAN'T. So I wondered if you fancied a chat & a drink instead???"

"Your teeth are like the stars - they come out at night."

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I've no idea what makes good music. Every time I think of somehting I come up with an exception. If anything, sincerity, and keeping it simple.

As for good music -- the opposite of Malkmus.

Anyway - hooks. That's about it. If you're sincere and/or honest yourself you shouldn't have to worry about other people being so (unless they're your mates, in which case you're probably getting your records free anyhow). If you're not you certainly shouldn't worry about it.

So all this writing abt music, all this guff on FT and all the 'issues'...and when it comes down to it it's just...hooks.

I wish it was that easy for me. The more I listen to the less I know.

but

Nick Drake

Hahaha

place on burner and bring to boil.

which leads neatly on to the chat-up line bit

pickup line: as i am good looking, anything works...

Aren't there any girls out their who like good music? I need to and want to meet them. My favorite bands are Overkill River, The Nife, Songs:Ohio, and Nuetral Milk Hotel. Please let me know if your into indy music and like to go to show's and drink beer's and makeout.

it's like you want to get excelsiored.

obviously the most important ingredient to good music is good melody, as unnecesarry and vague a thing that is to say. whenever i think that i could never like a song in a certain style of music, invariably i will eventually hear a song with such an undeniably beautiful melody that i just won't be able to resist.

as far as your question goes, i have to differentiate betwen two different types of favourite songs: songs that struck me the first time i heard them and i have loved ever since, and those that grew on me. as far as the latter goes, i have no fucking clue what makes me like them so much. the former, however, are less mysterious in their appeal. instantly likeable songs tend to have something weird and shocking about them. they present a new permutation of our twelve notes that i wouldn't have ever conceived as being possible, and thereby expand my perception of what music can be. they are often simple catchy, but stick their fingers directly into my brain and are impossible to ignore.