How is your taste in music influenced by that of the general public

If ya love an album and discover it has been heavily cut down does it alter your view and your pleasure in listening to that album or do ya continue to love it despite the lack of appreciation from others?

I dont give a rats tail WHAT ANYONE THINKS!!!!!!

I thankfully have my OWN MIND and I really could care less!

 

I don't give a fuck what other people think either but generally I that what "the general public" listens to mostly sucks

 

^ Agreed.

 

I can see discovering music from something being popular but why would anyone burry something because its not?

 

Maybe out of peer/group pressure? Only teens do this I think. And simpletons or people that don't really have a developed music taste perhaps. They listen more to the general consensus.

 

So just dont listen to it around your peers.

 

Exactly......They dont have thier own minds,they cant think for themselves!!

 

No, that is jumping to conclusions.

Different people, different priorities. Not all people spend the same amount of time or attention on music. A lot of them just listen to it at work or in the car, etc. Since they are not busy sorting out the music they like (for whatever reason) they don't develop their own music taste. Hence why they go by the charts or the radio channels that suits them best.

 

I've always been a man of my own musical wonderland

 

I very rarely listen to the radio anymore. Even KSHE, the mainstream rock channel here in St Louis. Which is precisely WHY I don't listen to it. Although I love classic rock, my dislike for mainstream popularity outweighs my love for certain types of music. I am so SICK of hearing Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pink Floyd and all the other constantly overplayed songs... I do still listen to KDHX, which is entitled as Independent Radio. They have a different radio show every hour or two all week long. Spanning all genres of music and talks/lectures alike. It's a fascinating idea and I wish more radio stations would take tips from what they do. There are a few other radio stations (that can barely be received where I am) that focus on variety rather than popular mainlined music, but I've mainly resorted to YouTube to get my music fix or albums/self-made mixes I have on CD.

I'm big into soul/funk... even go as far as to say motown right now. I feel like there's a big movement gaining speed in the funk and soul scene right now. Time will tell.

I love searching for new obscure music like I do with independently developed video games. It's so much fun wandering off the beaten track and finding something amazing that no one's ever heard of before. Even if you do have to sift through a bunch of stuff that's not so good. Being able to tell your friends "hey man... check THIS out" is a thing of beauty. Even if they don't dig it, I know I do!

 

Reminds me of a station they had on at work. One time they were talking about all the great songs on piper at the gates of dawn, pretty much naming every song then saying yeah thats a great one.
Yet they never played any of them once, instead they went back to the same 7 songs they always play from the wall or dark side of the moon or wish you were here.
Great songs just dont make money i guess.

 

Sounds about right. "Here's some great information about great music" (Plays something you've heard before...)

They do play some nifty stuff on Sunday tho. Full albums all day long.

 

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Can't we do that ourselves (with albums we don't own yet) on youtube these days

Sounds equally pointless. If I was DJ-ing for radio I would select good tunes in an order the listener probably would not ever come up with themselves. They have to offer something worthy for me to listen to (selection and some interesting/fun comments preferably too). If I want to check out a whole album I don't know or have yet i can look it up in a sec and play the whole thing myself these days.

 

Radio is more for the workplace now.

 

I listen to what I want. Screw society.

It has always seemed as though America tries to hide/discourage "cool" music. Anything heavy, acid, metal, psychedelic.
Britain and Japan seem to listen to what they want. Always felt as though I'm in the wrong place.

 

My peers (old white dudes and Asian hookers) listen to 70s rock and hip-hop. I can't be bothered with the 70s rock any more, and the old guys absolutely refuse to listen to hip-hop. The hookers are generally open to dancing to Latino music but mostly I'm listening to Bachata and Reggaeton on my earphones.

I dont really care what everyone else is doing any more. And I don't mix with the 'general public' as you know it.

 

I was amazed when i was a kid, @ the bands that became popular and were panned by the critics.
Aerosmith were just a bunch of "Stones" clones.
Black Sabbath were panned heavily too, even through their first three were as successful as they were. Three gold albums in a row.
Led Zeppelin were shat on too, as I recall hearing.
Rush were declared by Rolling Stone Magazine as Blue Cheer imitators, and the mag vowed never to feature them. How funny!!

Quite a few other highly successful bands made it big, despite the Critics. What the hell did they know?

 

You listened to completely different critics than I did.
Really the one bad critical comment that sticks in my head was a magazine that said 'faith no more' is the worst band of the year. Now I am not saying FNM is anything special but I could name thousands of bands worse. Actually I quite enjoy thier new album "the real thing" that came out that year.

 

I'm very aware of the effects that culture has on molding the mind and how it can restrict one's perception, making one's world-view more obtuse and rigid. For this reason I make a conscious effort to be open minded and at least explore different avenues and experience things outside of the culture I was brought up in and challenge my own values.

 

As a pre teen, what my friends were listening to was all that mattered. I learned to like what they liked about it. I lucked out though, I had been talking to a really "weird" girl named Ally. She always dressed crazy ( I thought), she wore boots with short skirts and had big red liberty spikes in her hair! Before school on my 14th birthday she summoned me behind the gas station, joint in one hand and "the tape" in the other. A compilation of Jane's Addiction and Violent Femmes...it was on. Soon came the Cure, Depeche Mode, Beastie Boys...etc. She introduced me to the skaters who were listening to Black Flag, Misfits and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. The I met the SHARPS and got into murphy's law and Stiff Little Fingers. My boyfriend introduced me to the Sex Pistols, Cramps, Exploited...ect. 15 was an awkward lonely year but Nirvana and Primus helped. Then I met my husband and his friends and got into Bowie, Coil, Leonard Cohen...and so on. Now there's my 18 and 22 y old sons who are having me listen to Atmospere, Vance Joy, Lorde. I am greatful for all of the social influences I had. Now my kids are passing on Suicidal Tendencies, Beastie Boys, Nirvana etc.