What are your weakness and strengths?
 

Usually people are weak in some area of music and strong in others, whether it be a certain genre or band members or telling what instruments are being played. What are your weakness and strengths?

I'll start
Strengths:
~knowing how different genres of music came to be
~Knowing basic facts (genres, influences, origin) about a good number of bands across a good number of genres
~Telling what instruments and time signatures are being used

Weaknesses:
~Knowing band members names
~Knowing song titles
~Country Music
~Indie Pop

Weakness-Giving a coherent and cohesive reasoning for the love of a band is a major weakness.

Using a band as an emotional crux, whilst shirking my own emotional responsibiltys.

Strength- hugely open minded and completely oblivious to passing fads and the fact that my son thinks I know nothing about music.

Weakness-Using music to express my emotional state.

Strength-Using music to expres my emotional state

Interesting. I haven't got any of your strengths. I don't think I have any strengths full stop, to be honest.

I can identify a lot of songs in a couple of seconds but so can most people. Uh... yeah, I don't know. I'm fine with song titles, band names and album titles and that's about it.

I think you are well on the way to achieving a mod status, even at this early stage. Very few posters have such a wide range and knowledgeable level of many genres of music.

You must dislike some music? I have'nt seen many posts in the Punk thread-have Ispotted a weakness?lol

I will take that as a compliment (and I thank you very much) but it's all an illusion. :p:

Yeah, I'm really not up on punk. I know about Operation Ivy and that's it. They might not even count. :p:

Strengths:

- I have a relatively good knowledge/idea of a lot of types of music. I don't listen to them all, but I know what to expect from something when told it's genre.
- I'm quite organized with all my music on my computer (which is funny, because I'm a mess with everything else, mostly)

Weaknesses:

- I tend to sometimes judge on musical taste, whether I can help it or not.
- I've been accused of music snobbery (even though I'm really not a music snob, despite my first point.)
- I can't play any instruments and I don't really have the patience to learn one.
- Fairly narrow taste.

Strengths
-Indie & Psychobilly
-Knowing what I like and not caring what people think of it

Weaknesses
-Not as adventurous in music as I'd like to be
-tendancy to pick up and instrament then put it down
-Country & Hip Hop/Rap

strength
-sometimes can fake knowing something about music

weakness
-in reality doesnt have a clue

strengths - talking ****

weaknesses - backing it up

Strength - Hugely massively open-minded and not fanboyish. Thus, I'm not an elitist and my ability to judge isn't impacted.
Weakness - Spend too much time listening to music due to above strength.

Strength - I'm good at debating/arguing. Relevant to music discussions.

Strength - I have 500 GB of music, so that means I don't just acquire the music I know I'd listen to regularly (like many people).

Weakness - Sometimes I don't give some albums the full attention they deserve because I'll be doing something else demanding at the same time (i.e. studying).

Strengths:
- Highly varied taste, open to virtually anything.
- Fair bit of knowledge when it comes to music history and the like.
- Always back up my opinions.

Weaknesses:
- Figuring out time signatures.
- A bit obsessed - I literally just sit at home and listen to music all day.
- Sometimes find it difficult to explain why I like certain bands/songs/albums so much.

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Knowing what instruments
duplicating it on drums

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Guitar :(

I have that problem too. I wouldn't say that I'm awful at English but it's really difficult to describe a subjective feeling and I end up saying 'I just love it' sometimes.

Strengths:
Knowing a stupid number of bands and practically everyone decent in the UK.
Knowing alot about genres
Being able to avoid the ****.

Weakpoints:
Pouring all my money into it.
Getting over excited whenever i find a good new band
Not having enough time to listen to older music i love.

Strengths:
Pretty much none... that I can think of anyway.

Weaknesses:
A bloody lot!

But to name a few..
- With some artists I like, I'll hear one album, grow to love it, then find it hard to get into their other stuff as I'll always be comparing it to what I'm use to hearing from them, and not actually judging the album for what it is.

- Genres. I'm horrible with genres. I know a bit about the genres I like, but ask me what Hardcore, Thrash Metal, Shoegazing, Baroque, etc etc are, and I couldn't tell you without researching it... Yeah, major n00b here :P

- Deciefering lyrics/song meanings. This is easily my biggest weakness. I'm a very closed minded thinker, and often never understand what a lot of songs are about. This is also probably why I don't appreciate a lot of music I listen to as much as I should (see first weakness).

Strengths

Open Mindedness - I've checked out everything from emo to prog rock , metal , electronica , jazz , folk , hip hop & many others by way of people's recommendations on here. I like it that I can go from listening to Napalm Death to James Brown to Lemon Jelly & not notice any difference , only that it's all music.

My pop upbringing - I loved it that none of my parents weren't classic rock bores & that we didn't have a single Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin album in the house. It made appreciate all those other genres & ensured I was never going to grow up to be a classic rock bore who talks endlessly about guitar solos.

Ruthlessness - I happen to like the fact i'll never give bands like U2 or Red Hot Chili Peppers another listen ever again , these people have nothing new to say and have not had for some considerable time now and anytime spent wasting my time listening to that middle of the road crap just takes time away from listening to something interesting. And that goes for the current crop of new British guitar bands , I know what The Jam , The Smiths & The Libertines sound like already , can you do something different now please?

Excitement - I'm always genuinely excited to listen to something new , makes no difference to me if it's some brand new electronica album or some garage psych band from the mid 60s , I just love the buzz of listening to something for the first time ever & the expectation I may grow to love this band as much as I like I do with the likes of The Fall or David Bowie.

Weaknesses

Time - I actually feel guilty listening to my favourite records because I wonder if I could be finding something new during that time.

Lack Of Knowledge - I HATE not knowing stuff , I think one of the reasons it took me almost 10 years to get into The Fall was that their discography and the huge amount of material scared me off , i'm worried i'll listen to the wrong album & get a false picture of what that band is like , or that I may listen to a bands best album , not get anything from it & wonder if it's just me that doesn't get it.

Ruthlessness - If a band releases 2 albums in a row I dislike, then that's it. No more chances. In fact I never listen to bands like Snow Patrol & Ash anymore , even though I used to like them at one time, because their current material is so awful , I get the impression it taints their older work. I would be like this with the Manic Street Preachers & Oasis too but the fact those bands first couple of albums were wonderful save them.

Greed - if I hear one song I like I want their entire discography , used to cost me a fortune , thank god for downloading. Last band I heard this has happened to : Black Lips

i suck at debating music or discussing lyrics or instruments used & that sort of thing
only thing im good at is naming the artists & song titles & getting the lyrics right

My weakness is that I'm starting to feel like an old fogey, not finding much new music that speaks to me

You friggin whippersnappers

I like to think I have an open mind to all music and will give absolutely anything at least one listen.
Music has always fascinated me and it doesn't stop at the tunes. I enjoy looking deeper into bands and band members that take my interest.
This also extends to individuals whose music I don't like.
If the person's a bit of a character, chances are I'll know just about everything about them there is to know, or will go to great lengths finding out.
I like to think this is a strength.
My wife will disagree and does so, often.
Announcing to all who care to listen, that it's a weakness based on what she calls, "an unhealthy and obsessive behaviour problem". I beg to differ. (She's just jealous I know more than her)

My weaknesses are many.
I hate what I call chart music and the people who like it.
I tend to look down on people who rave about the likes of Britney Spears and so called artists like her.
I hate Girl bands, Boy bands and the "latest trend" bands.
It's arrogant, elitist and unfair. And I wish I wasn't like that.
Especially as I expect others to see what I see in Northern Soul.
If I like a band enough, I have to own the album.
A download won't do as it doesn't feel tangible.
This means spending more money than I'd like to and probably more (selfishly) than is fair to the wife and kids.
My Northern Soul collection is kept seperately from the others.
I moved it all upstairs when the kids started messing with them and upsetting the chronological order they were in.
They now reside in my bedroom (yes I sleep in the same room as them) because I was constantly yelling at the poor kids every time they went near them and getting into countless arguments with the wife over, "does it really matter?" comments.
Sadly, it did to me.
I admit to liking some ABBA songs.

LOL

I know...I hate myself. :(

Oh, thanks a lot. :p:

Strengths:
I listen to good music.

Weaknesses:
N/A

You should all be rounded up.
Put in a barn.
And burned alive!


;)

I can't help being cool. :p:

Nothing a litre of petrol and a match can't fix.

So... what's the big deal with chart music? You're listening to Radiohead. :p:

You know what I mean. :nono:

I don't think I do. I consider 'chart music' music that's in the charts, you know. :p: