I judge people

i really don't mind them, it's actually kind of nice for a random change of pace. i just don't see being a devoted fanatic of them.

 

I agree while culture club is odd the music is so 80's and everyone knows it. Fanatic tho lol

"do you really want to hurt me..."

 

The only Culture Club song I've ever really liked, even as a child, is "Karma Chameleon". lol I definitely could understand how someone could be a fanatic of them, even though I myself am not a fan of them.

@Goofygooberz: I do wonder how people who do judge people based on their musical tastes, judge someone who likes many different types of music. I guess someone could judge me as a rock/metal fan, as 80-90% of what I listen to falls within those genres. Then again, my music libarary features a wide array of artists from different genres, (Helloween, Elton John, The Eagles, Cannibal Corpse, The Traveling Wilburys, Val Doonican, Queen, Stevie Wonder, and Green Day, just being a small example of the diversity that can be found on my ipod) as well as movie soundtracks and video games music.

I think someone using a song by Faith No More to highlight my overall musical tastes (albeit done inadvertently) was strangely relevant, as they themselves cover a wide range of genres in their music. On one album, they covered genres as diverse as 70's R&B influenced funk ("Evidence"), death metal ("Cuckoo For Caca"), big band jazz ("Star AD"), bossa nova ("Caralho Voador"), hardcore punk ("Get Out"), melodic alternative rock ("Last To Know") and even gospel! ("Just A Man"). And that doesn't cover all the other genres to be found on that album. hehe

I dunno what sort of mindset you have to have in order to be able to enjoy music from a wide variety of genres, or even if you need to have a particular mindset/personality, to be able to do so. I guess that's for those who judge people based on their musical tastes to work out... lol

 

gotta watch that judging shit

 

sounds like my Ipod too lol

What about supertramp? Anyone like them? Always liked Dreamer but the whole Breakfast in America was good.

Ohhh here's one David Wilcox fans.......

 

Yeah, my ipod is a bit of a mixed bag all told... lol Actually, I need to get one with more space very soon, the one I have now is full.

Yep, I do like Supertramp! lol Breakfast In America is a great album, some of the songs on there are just all time classics.

 

I judged you as a metalhead, Invisible soul. It didn't had severe consequences though (so far)

 

Kids seem to be born narrow-minded, so probably most of us start out hating all kinds of music except what we hear all the time at home, at school, and with their friends. It's a few years later, or many years later, when we discover that the music world is so much bigger and more diverse than we thought it could be. I'm still learning that. After decades of being open-minded and curious, I keep finding more and more things to like.

There's some luck involved too. Somebody or something has to plant the idea in your head that there might be a lot of great stuff out there that you will never hear on mainstream FM stations. Some kids are lucky enough to have parents or close friends who are excited and knowledgeable about many kinds of music. If not, you could go through most of your life and not do much exploring, assuming that you aren't missing much. Reality check: Old music doesn't get promoted because there isn't much money in it for the record companies. Dead people can't go out on tour, and copyrights expire eventually.

Wikipedia is great for getting a little background knowledge on a musical genre or style that you don't know at all. Then you can go to YouTube and know what you need to search for first.

Just like Seized, sometimes I find music distracting too, but for a different reason. I find myself paying attention to it instead of what I'm supposed to be doing. Especially if it's complicated music. If I decide to listen to a Beethoven symphony, I'm going to wait until I have time to sit down and focus on it, from beginning to end. My brain can't process all that while I'm doing something else.

Smooth jazz makes better background music - but not Miles Davis or John Coltrane. There's a lot going on in their music too - just slower.

 

Well see, that's only because you've seen the posts I've made in "what I'm listening to" threads, which have been predominantly metal. lol I mentioned earlier in this thread that I have a friend who knew me for a while before learning what my musical tastes were, and then expressed surprise upon realising that I love metal music. Like a lot of people who aren't metalheads, he had a stereotyped view of the type of people that metalheads are. And because I'm very far removed from that stereotype, he was a bit shocked to find that I loved metal. lol Am I a "metalhead"? I'm not sure to be honest... can you be a metalhead and like other kinds of music besides metal? I think so, I mean look at the guitarist Alex Skolnick. He plays in Testament which is a thrash metal band, but he also plays in a jazz band as well.

What didn't have severe consequences?


@Karen_J: I wasn't narrow minded as a child, but that's probably because I realised at an early age that I was different from most other kids. It's funny that I like a lot of old music now, but back when I was a child, I didn't much like the music my parents listened to, and mainly looked upon it as amusing as much as anything else. Because I grew up essentially as a loner, most of my musical discoveries were made on my own without much influence from anyone else.

When I was a lot younger, I mainly only liked mainstream pop music, but that was only because that was the only music aside from my family's music that I was exposed to at that time. Although ironically, my love for rock and metal music began by hearing it on mainstream radio, and then I just dug deeper later on and discovered the non-mainstream stuff.

I think maybe because of the fact I never fitted in with a certain group of people, and that I never tried to, I never felt obligated to fit into a little box music wise. Like I think a lot of people might think their mates will laugh at them, or look down on them for liking a certain style of music, so they will dismiss that music as being crap without really knowing much about it at all. I've always felt I've had total freedom to listen to whatever I want, and not have to bother about what others' might think of it.

 

A metalhead as in someone who loves metal a lot, nothing more or less It didn't had any consequences because I always try not to apply all my associatiions on my judgement when I judge a person on something trivial (at first instance) as their music taste.

 

In that case, I am a metalhead. An unconventional metalhead maybe, but still a metalhead nonetheless. hehe

Ah... lol Yep, I'm the exactly same way. If you're a kind, decent, honest, non-violent, and open minded person, then those are the values I look for when judging a person. If you are those things, then what you listen to is completely irrelevant to me. I will judge you in a positive way. Similarly, people that are the opposite of those things will be judged negatively by me, regardless of what they listen to. And I don't think there's any style of music where every person who likes it has (or hasn't) the qualities I've just described.

 

Cool picture , except in real life probably makes things ugly, Nice interesting piece of photography though!! Your original and with it!! from Nanette T.

 

Here's a Poem that I would like to share that I wrote!! The Garden My Church of the DAY by: Nanette T.

Beautiful weather good fun , Come to my garden when day is done. Play, sing, clap your hands, all in fun . We'll all grow in love when day is forever done. God is here. God is there , God is near. Close and near. Always in our midst here. Oh God here our whispers of prayers of love sent to heaven with love sent to God flying on a peacebird dove. Angels all around us here. Angels flying around surrounding this place always near to us. Tall ones, short ones, small and wise. They look like Godly cherubs never needing a disguise. Thank you Lord Father for this church garden day of love . Prayers of love through out the day and sweet angels flying around us guiding the way. God keeping us today. May the Love of God always find my Way. Amen Holy Holy is the Lord. Amen and Amen.

 

I think your in the wrong forum Nanettetron.....you want the Christian forum.

 

OP as in my original post. And all I did was look at your profile, threads you've created (I do this all the time to get a feel for what kind of person a poster is).. and that was the only thread you ever made. It wasn't me stalking, it was very easy to do lol.

 

Just because it's easy to do, doesn't make it any less creepy. In any case, I wasn't being entirely serious. lol