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JGuy Grungeman · 08-09-2016, 04:17 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume you missed my point again by assuming I said one knows what to look for when trying new music. You know what to look for when you've heard enough of that music to do so, which gives you rthe experience needed to immediately decipher the music later. I first played Loveless with the rockist mind, and I didn't like it. Months later, I tried it again by opening myself to a new style of music, and I wasn't entirely sure what to think since shoegaze was still entirely new to me. So right after Loveless, I played MBV. I liked it because I was more used to what shoegaze was and had not gone into it with the rockist mind that I had. So I played Loveless again immediately after, and I put it in my top 100 and it's still there from, this day on with a perfect 100.

Basically, my experience went as follows:
1. try the new genre by trying to get an idea of its sound without judging it like I would judge an album from my usual experience (rock, pop, folk, etc.)
2. Once I've gotten an idea of the sound, try another album in the genre and compare the two and find out what's similar. It's likely the first album one tries won't be that highly rated, but you might like the second one more. Heck, on the second shoegaze album I heard, MBV, I realized what shoegaze was about. It only took two albums, and they were by the same band. Since then, I've been able to call myself a fan of MBV, Slowdive, Beaulieu Porch, grungegaze, and Ringo Deathstarr. The same thing happened with black metal recently. I tried something new and did not attempt to judge it by anything else. The first album was At the Heart of Winter. I gave it 8. It took two more black metal albums before I could finally give one a five star rating and understand its sound.

It may take some longer, some quicker, and sometimes it entirely depends on the genre. But overall, having a different mindset can really help. I grew from a rockist mind to one open to determining why genres are so unique, and that helped to develop my love of the concept of genre tagging (although I admit there are WAY too many tags).

08-09-2016, 04:17 PM	#33 (permalink)
JGuy Grungeman Primo Celebate Sexiness Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 2,662	Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume you missed my point again by assuming I said one knows what to look for when trying new music. You know what to look for when you've heard enough of that music to do so, which gives you rthe experience needed to immediately decipher the music later. I first played Loveless with the rockist mind, and I didn't like it. Months later, I tried it again by opening myself to a new style of music, and I wasn't entirely sure what to think since shoegaze was still entirely new to me. So right after Loveless, I played MBV. I liked it because I was more used to what shoegaze was and had not gone into it with the rockist mind that I had. So I played Loveless again immediately after, and I put it in my top 100 and it's still there from, this day on with a perfect 100. Basically, my experience went as follows: 1. try the new genre by trying to get an idea of its sound without judging it like I would judge an album from my usual experience (rock, pop, folk, etc.) 2. Once I've gotten an idea of the sound, try another album in the genre and compare the two and find out what's similar. It's likely the first album one tries won't be that highly rated, but you might like the second one more. Heck, on the second shoegaze album I heard, MBV, I realized what shoegaze was about. It only took two albums, and they were by the same band. Since then, I've been able to call myself a fan of MBV, Slowdive, Beaulieu Porch, grungegaze, and Ringo Deathstarr. The same thing happened with black metal recently. I tried something new and did not attempt to judge it by anything else. The first album was At the Heart of Winter. I gave it 8. It took two more black metal albums before I could finally give one a five star rating and understand its sound. It may take some longer, some quicker, and sometimes it entirely depends on the genre. But overall, having a different mindset can really help. I grew from a rockist mind to one open to determining why genres are so unique, and that helped to develop my love of the concept of genre tagging (although I admit there are WAY too many tags). __________________ I'm a pretty nice troll if you ask me.