Howard the Duck

to be fair, very few of my friends engage me in conversations about music

cos they listen to stuff like Five Finger Death Punch, Green Day and Air Supply

erm, i'd rather not, thx

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someonecompletelyrandom

This question actually came up yesterday. I was kind of surprised but I blurted out "mostly folk and country." The asker seemed to accept this so I stopped myself from saying anything else. My favorite two artists are folk and country but my tastes extend way beyond that.

Yeah, I wouldn't touch that.

Stephen

Conversation usually goes something like this;

them: What sort of music do you like?

me: I like pretty much anything, I have pretty varied tastes.

them: Oh have you heard of/do you like <insert band that makes me want to jam rusty screwdriver in ear>

me: <pained silence while I try to figure out how to avoid offending them>

RVCA

"I've been listening to a bit of metal lately"

and then they give me a raised eyebrow and invariably think less of me as a person as they walk away

Unicr0n

I have tons of music that I'm not SUPER into in my collection, though I would say that I have a pretty...objective approach to listening to music. I can find redeeming qualities in ALMOST anything I listen to, because there's always something sonically pleasing. That's not to say I don't think bands suck, there are plenty of artists (some of which I enjoy thoroughly) which I will readily admit are horrible.

But all of that aside, my collection stopped being about personal taste ages ago. It's now more of a...music preservation project. So much music slips through the cracks over the years, and, as decades pass, will be lost forever.

I download as much as I can, organize it all meticulously, and add it to my ~musical time capsule~. I do run my library on shuffle 90% of the time though, so I end up hearing a LOT of what I have. I actually did some rough math the other day and figured out that I've listened to approximately 70% of the artists on my computer, which is no small feat when you consider I have somewhere in the realm of 10,000 unique artists on my hard drive.

I literally am kept awake at night sometimes thinking about all the music I'll never be able to get to, that will forever be lost, ten or twenty years from now.

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Howard the Duck

no, say "I've been listening to a lot of power metal lately"

then see their reaction

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someonecompletelyrandom

This is something we have in common, only instead of a musical preservation project of sorts, my massive collection is there purely so I'll have options. If I'm in the mood for music but I can't quite put my finger on what, I'll listen around until I find something and usually end up discovering a great artist.

Unicr0n

That's definitely an aspect for me, as well. Nearly every day I stumble across some new song that sticks with me. Limitless possibilities. Plus it creates an ever expanding platform on the rare occasion that I get to talk to somebody in person who REALLY wants to talk about music, aha.

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Mrd00d

/signed with Unicr0n's and Conan's points. It's nice to have the options, and it's nice to have a collection in case the internet dies. Just in case.

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Farfisa

"I like Pornogrind" = People thinking I'm a rapist.