Sansa Stark

Goofle

Is Paloma GIF's?

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Howard the Duck

i'm gonna bring back the old argument from a few pages back about liking everything

i think i'm one of the few who actually listens to almost everything, except maybe avant-garde

but of course, i still have my own standards and judgment of what i perceive as "good" or "bad"

i don't think i will use this as a yardstick to judge other people's tastes, only maybe misinformation and lack of exposure

other than people who like Pearl Jam, i find that indefensible

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Paedantic Basterd

I think it's fine if you don't like everything, as long as you give what you don't like an honest try instead of putting it in a box based on very little exposure to it.

Key

Either this, or basing an opinion on somebody else's opinion for it. I generally will listen to anything if somebody recommends it or if I feel like I may like it. If it doesn't really impress me based on the recommendation, I listen to it again as an album or a band on it's own to try and find something I like about it.

I really like to try and like everything I listen to. Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't.

Ravenheart

It's good to have an open mind when approaching music. I'm hesitant to say anyone who's closed off immediately has bad taste, but I like that definition.

The other music forum I frequent (though less and less every day) is very homogenous and oppressive in its tastes, and the most prominent member have very narrow tastes and often scoff at and belittle anyone who differs from their own incredibly rigid preferences. And don't you dare call them out on it, or they'll act victimized and get the mods involved. It's pretty disappointing, but...I guess I'm veering off from the point.

I think accepting your limitations amicably rather than "hurr durr, your favorite bands don't fit my painfully specific and ignorant definition of good music. FAIL" is the better way to go about it. But I guess that has to do with attitude, as opposed to music taste.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that anyone who likes music I don't like has awful taste.

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RVCA

I'm going to make an addendum to Janzsoon's initial definition by saying that a bad taste in music is one that is very limited but also very uninterested in broadening its limits.

I know many people who have a specific, narrow taste in one genre, but are pretty open to suggestions outside of that genre. I like that. But I also know plenty of people who listen exclusively to one or two genres and champion them like the greatest thing ever while putting down all other types of music. That's the worst.

Neapolitan

I can understand if someone said that a wide range of music is a good thing but I can't find myself agreeing with Janzsoon's definition - "that a bad taste in music is one that is very limited." Partly because it doesn't define what is good/bad music is to have good/bad taste in...

Does a general practitioner have good taste and a specialist have bad taste for a career in health care? Being limited to specific field or subject is not bad thing, and so too in art - it's not bad taste. For me it's to each his own if someone finds himself or herself only listening to one type of music that is their personal choice. There are probably several reason why they only like one type of music.

It's sound like it's not their range of music taste but their attitude.

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Vertigo

You've been on the Atease music forum haven't you?