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Originally Posted by Crowquill
Whether they have the time or not, its ridiculous to make someone listen to a bands entire discography if they don't like what they've heard just to satisfy a tool fan. Then again it probably won't satisfy them they'll bust out the "you just don't get it" argument.
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Well I agree, of course it would be unfair to apply that criteria for Tool specifically. I'm suggesting that the principle holds for all bands. I think it's unfair to form a negative opinion of any band at all without having listened to at
least 70% or so of their material attentively. Otherwise how can one truly know? (It'd be pretty lame for instance to reject Tool based simply on listening to the Opiate EP or even Undertow, while they ended up so markedly different down the line)
And yeah, I think that a huge amount of incidents of bands being rejected tends to happen either through a negative approach from the onset, or just not bothering to really get to know them. Of course, as said before, that's not to say that the end result would be any different. And a "you just don't get it" response is pretty lame, as you say.