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Dio is acknowledged as one of the most important heavy metal singers ever, and writers, and generally seen as the real "voice" of Rainbow, though of course there are those who don't like him. Not sure what your problem is with him, whether it fits in with your points here or not, ie whether it's because he tends to write longer songs on the whole, but okay that's your choice. Nevertheless, to stop listening to any song after 1 minute just seems weird to me.
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Dio was a lousy singer, and his songs are lyrically vapid and repetitive; length magnifies all those flaws. He wasn't exalted by many until he was old.
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Not in any way necessarily. Do you think you've heard every band considered "good" or even "popular"? I hadn't even heard of Sigur Ros until recently, checked them out and really liked them. But you won't find them on the radio or in the charts. Does not in any way invalidate their music though. A band does not have to be popular, or known to you, to be good. Threshold do very well without you, thanks.
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A good artist in a modern style is likely to at least get a little music television exposure eventually. Not that I think Sigur Ros is good, but I think I saw a video at least once.
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No, I know, that's why I qualified my own response to reflect what you said. You said you don't get any emotional resonance out of them, which is what I said.
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In fact, I used the qualifier "rarely."
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No they don't. Why? Why limit yourself? If you want to explore, say African tribal music and never have before, why not do so? Or Italian disco? Or dubstep? Or death metal? Or grindcore? Why would you limit yourself to not trying these avenues, unless you're actually not interested in them? There are genres I am not interested in, but that doesn't mean I might not be at some point in the future. I don't place a limit on myself, saying you can never explore those genres. What would be the point of that?
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Because I can tell those things suck. I have been exposed to bit and pieces of that (except for Italian disco, which I assume isn't far from regular disco).
People are making too big of a deal out of my 5000 songs comment. It was a conservative estimate. Maybe the actual number is 10,000. Also, I mean unique songs (it could be a few millions listens). It hardly matters. The point is the sample size is big, and therefore my observations have a solid basis.