I love your introduction and the fact that you used a band and an artist I never listened to before.
First off, I completely agree that it's interesting to learn why certain people like certain genres. I'm usually very open to music, but there are a couple I try to get into, but to no avail, I go nowhere. Most in particular is the, I'm guessing, sub-genre Screamo and the whole of Country. I've also learned that I'd actually prefer listening to instrumentals as opposed to music with singers, since I usually listened to "classical" music without singers as a child.
Also, being openminded makes you bored of pop radio. Yeah, the structure of the songs is always going to be the same, but the same songs are played. I remember listening to the radio and hearing Britney's "3" once an hour when all of the songs were played less frequency. But the constant playing of the same songs always made me wonder how the rest of an artist's album would sound like. This is when I started listening to the artist as a whole. It gave me the ability to compare other artists and see a sort of inspiration that came from listening to more famous artists such as Michael Jackson and the like.
Anyway, I'm going to try and be a regular reader of your journal
I'm liking the two reviews you wrote