OccultHawk

It's sounds like you're saying you (partially) judge music based on whether or not you consider yourself the type of person who should like it. The only thing that should matter is how good the music is.

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Frownland

In my review I brought up the type of listener because you can only say that you find something uninteresting so many times before your statements become redundant. In any case, I don't think that Showcase is good. It's boring. It's dull. I guess using "inoffensive" instead of those words makes you pretentious. I hesitated calling outright bad because it was an album not trying to be what I consider a good album.

The soft rock review was a scientifically accurate description though.

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Anteater

Do you know the difference between Westcoast-AOR, yacht rock and soft rock...or anything about the musicians, producers, songwriters, etc. who dabbled in those areas? You'd be surprised at how influential all of it is. Daft Punk won Grammys riding all of that music's coattails after all.

The reason I give you a hard time is that I was a lot like you when I first joined this forum almost a decade ago, but broadened my criteria and learned how to discern the value of different genres based on criteria unique to the genre as opposed to having some pretentious "objective" standard of what an album "had" to be in order to be "good". Go look at the first "Favorite Albums Of All Time" thread I did years ago and compare it to a lot of the stuff I review now. The me back then shat all over a lot of what I listen to now because I didn't know any better (nor did I ever really give them a chance to begin with), and I didn't have an open mind.

You can't judge smooth jazz or yacht rock like you'd judge grindgore or jazz. Not because they are better genres, but because what makes a yacht rock album "good" is not going to be what makes an experimental jazz album "good". They operate by completely different production styles and differ in every other criterion you can think of.

But Frown, you approach music like you made up your mind ahead of time because you've already decided you don't like the aesthetic. And that's fine, but you limit yourself by doing things that way...as a listener and as a musician.

Just my two cents.

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The Batlord

Like I said, he's young and still has time to grow.

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Frownland

Which smooth jazz albums have grown on you over the past few years?

It's not like I'm not open to finding a smooth jazz or country pop record that I like, it's just that my experience has not led me anywhere near enjoyment and a lot closer to disdain than anything.

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The Batlord

Never listened to one cause I don't care enough to try atm. But at some point I thought the same about hip hop, country, pop, post-punk, prog, grindcore, metalcore, and countless single artists. I'm perfectly happy to **** on something for the lulz, but am also perfectly happy to discard those opinions. Whereas your musical taste seems to have stalled.

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