Do You know Anyone Who Doesn’t Like Music?

[Sal1950]

So, I think that I will keep her around.

She's young, you wait, that'll change. LOL

 

[EPICURIOUS007]

Inspired by a confession thread on Reddit where the person admitted that they simply do not like music. To them music is at best boring but in almost all cases an irritant.
Doesn’t matter whether its a live concert, music in the background, even music in his gaming, it’s all a yuck factor.

That got me thinking that I am not aware of knowing anybody who doesn’t like music.
Feels pretty hard to fathom.

Reminds me tangentially of different peoples attitudes toward enjoying food. A work companion once accompanied me to a nice restaurant. I’m a “ foodie” and so I was just swooning over the food and he’s looking at me puzzled. He said he just didn’t understand people into food in the way I am. To him “hunger is just a hole I have to fill, and food is something that just fill the hole. It’s functional, I fill the whole and just move on.”

I suppose there’s a similar divide regarding music.

Does anybody know somebody who doesn’t like music?

what an excellent Question,
learned a lot from all the replies

 

[EPICURIOUS007]

Yes, myself.
There are moments when I'm not open to music at all and there are moments when I just can't stand certain music.
I can rarely listen to Chick Corea or Keith Jarret with pleasure, and I can only listen to Tool when I'm in exactly the right mood for it.
The same goes for Beethoven and Bach.
To summarize:
In order to enjoy music I have to be in the right mood or vice versa, the music has to match my mood.

I understand this very well,
i have become the same way as i get older.

 

[EPICURIOUS007]

I don't, but apparently Leonard Cohen did:

"Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?"

alleluia!
love that song,
Jeff Buckley did an amazing cover on his album Grace

 

[Jim T]

Inspired by a confession thread on Reddit where the person admitted that they simply do not like music. To them music is at best boring but in almost all cases an irritant.
Doesn’t matter whether its a live concert, music in the background, even music in his gaming, it’s all a yuck factor.

That got me thinking that I am not aware of knowing anybody who doesn’t like music.
Feels pretty hard to fathom.

Reminds me tangentially of different peoples attitudes toward enjoying food. A work companion once accompanied me to a nice restaurant. I’m a “ foodie” and so I was just swooning over the food and he’s looking at me puzzled. He said he just didn’t understand people into food in the way I am. To him “hunger is just a hole I have to fill, and food is something that just fill the hole. It’s functional, I fill the whole and just move on.”

I suppose there’s a similar divide regarding music.

Does anybody know somebody who doesn’t like music?

I do think that there are millions who say they like music, but care nothing about gear or the medium. WE have a family subscription to Tidal and my wife has a pair of powered audio Engine A-5's on her computer desk driven buy a very nice Project Audio DAC and hardly every listens to anything. Maybe once a month some song will hit her, but that is about it. She is just more of a TV show person.

 

[EJ3]

I do think that there are millions who say they like music, but care nothing about gear or the medium. WE have a family subscription to Tidal and my wife has a pair of powered audio Engine A-5's on her computer desk driven buy a very nice Project Audio DAC and hardly every listens to anything. Maybe once a month some song will hit her, but that is about it. She is just more of a TV show person.

My wife doesn't like music, TV or shopping. (We haven't had a TV since 2007 and if she could get rid of my stereo without getting rid of me, she would).
She does like getting away from the house & going places, walking, exercise, etc.
Me too: so we're mostly compatible.

 

[pablolie]

My wife doesn't like music, TV or shopping. (We haven't had a TV since 2007 and if she could get rid of my stereo without getting rid of me, she would).
She does like getting away from the house & going places, walking, exercise, etc.
Me too: so we're mostly compatible.

Not directed at you, just a response. Our individual behavior clearly does not provide a reliable consumer profile, it seems. I am not a video person, but video online services dictate the entertainment world these days... and the way most people seem to discuss... online video and its myriad of series seem to dominate the audience.

At least my current GF accepts I listen to music with NC headphones while I read a kindle book, sitting on the floor while she watches whatever show catches her fancy.

 

[xanalog]

I really wouldn't care if pediatricians (experts?) recommend otherwise; but to deny newborns any exposure to music should be illegal.
Yeah, RFK Jr., put music in your MAHA recommendations, like mother's milk!

 

[EJ3]

Not directed at you, just a response. Our individual behavior clearly does not provide a reliable consumer profile, it seems. I am not a video person, but video online services dictate the entertainment world these days... and the way most people seems to discuss publically... online video and its myriad of series seem to dominate the audience.

At least my current GF accepts I listen to music with NC headphones while I read a kindle book, sitting on the floor while she watches whatever show catches her fancy.

At my wife's home (a 21 hour flying time) flight away, there is an 80" TV. She's there 1-2 months out of the year. And says that she watches about 8 hours of TV every month.
There is no stereo.
She just prefers the natural, ambient noise, wherever she is at.
I don't care for headphones, IEMs but I like my speakers & I accept that she wants them at a low volume. It's harder when she hears all frequencies pretty well and I don't.
I actually have a gap of no hearing between 7-8 KHz in my right ear.
But we've managed to work it out. We enjoy long trips in our vehicles & there, she wants no sound from the stereo. That is difficult sometimes.
But we enjoy many other things together and rarely break out into an argument, so...

 

[AndyBell]

I always like this quote from Thomas Beecham:

“The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”

He also said

“A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.”

I can image what he would have said about audiophools...

 

[EJ3]

I always like this quote from Thomas Beecham:

“The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”

He also said

“A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.”

I can image what he would have said about audiophools...

I thought that it was good cooking that they don't like! (My mother is Austrian and went to England when she was 17 to be a cook for an elderly couple).
Her experience cooking there for a year is my evidence.

 

[Sal1950]

My wife doesn't like music, TV or shopping. (We haven't had a TV since 2007 and if she could get rid of my stereo without getting rid of me, she would).
She does like getting away from the house & going places, walking, exercise, etc.
Me too: so we're mostly compatible.

I'd have been on the phone to a divorce lawyer 2 weeks after the wedding.

 

[Rocky Maine]

I have been reacquainted with a friend I first met in Jr High in the late 60's. She told me that at that time (60's into the 70's) she paid no attention to the music that was current. Had no favorite artists. I almost fell out of my chair.

We have this Beecham quote framed: "The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought"

 

[Frank Dernie]

I thought that it was good cooking that they don't like! (My mother is Austrian and went to England when she was 17 to be a cook for an elderly couple).
Her experience cooking there for a year is my evidence.

It being foggy all the time and the food not being good was what I was told about England when I first visited the USA (Milwaukee) in 1970, obviously based on what people had seen on films (movies) since not many US natives travel abroad.

I was exasperated because the confidence with which it was asserted was huge and the fact that I had by then lived in London for a year was clearly irrelevant in their minds to their preconceptions!

Having worked full time in international motor racing from 1976 to retiring I have eaten in a lot of countries and got a taste for a wide variety of cuisines. Traditional English cooking is simple and requires good ingredients but here there are good restaurants from all sorts of cultures here since the UK is a melting pot of people from many parts of what was the British Empire.
I enjoy French, Italian, Spanish, German and south Asian cuisine but have less experience of south east Asian cuisine but like it too.
I can eat in French, Italian, Spanish, Indian, Bangladeshi, Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants around here as well as my favourite typical English restaurant so plenty of choice.

When I lived in France there was a far narrower choice than here, pretty well just French, Vietnamese or a pizza though what there was was fantastic... Yum.

 

[Karmacoma]

It being foggy all the time and the food not being good was what I was told about England when I first visited the USA (Milwaukee) in 1970, obviously based on what people had seen on films (movies) since not many US natives travel abroad.

I was exasperated because the confidence with which it was asserted was huge and the fact that I had by then lived in London for a year was clearly irrelevant in their minds to their preconceptions!

Having worked full time in international motor racing from 1976 to retiring I have eaten in a lot of countries and got a taste for a wide variety of cuisines. Traditional English cooking is simple and requires good ingredients but here there are good restaurants from all sorts of cultures here since the UK is a melting pot of people from many parts of what was the British Empire.
I enjoy French, Italian, Spanish, German and south Asian cuisine but have less experience of south east Asian cuisine but like it too.
I can eat in French, Italian, Spanish, Indian, Bangladeshi, Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants around here as well as my favourite typical English restaurant so plenty of choice.

When I lived in France there was a far narrower choice than here, pretty well just French, Vietnamese or a pizza though what there was was fantastic... Yum.

I've lived in England, the food culture is by far the worst I've ever seen, it's the only time I've ever been shocked on this subject. It's puzzling cos other cultural areas were pretty sophisticated, the contrast makes it look like a void. I tried to understand, find a reason, didn't succeed. I also heard many times from english people ''it's getting a lot better'', ''that's a stereotype'', they clearly don't see it, so I don't see them fix it anytime soon.

 

[EJ3]

I'd have been on the phone to a divorce lawyer 2 weeks after the wedding.

It was 19 years in that I discovered this, as we traveled a lot, in separate directions (mostly for our work), so every time we were together for a month or 2, it was like a honeymoon all over again. No time to listen to music or watch TV.

 

[xanalog]

I can image what he would have said about audiophools...

I can't be the only ASR member who may take that statement as an insult!

 

[Sal1950]

I've lived in England, the food culture is by far the worst I've ever seen, it's the only time I've ever been shocked on this subject. It's puzzling cos other cultural areas were pretty sophisticated, the contrast makes it look like a void. I tried to understand, find a reason, didn't succeed. I also heard many times from english people ''it's getting a lot better'', ''that's a stereotype'', they clearly don't see it, so I don't see them fix it anytime soon.
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I've heard you can't find a decent pizza, taco, or cheeseburger anywhere.

 

[Karmacoma]

I've heard you can't find a decent pizza, taco, or cheeseburger anywhere.

You can, but you have to be carefull. Farm products are pretty good thought, excellent meat (good grass) veggies and cheese, worth going to a market. I remember my first experience on one of the fancyest London market (borough market) a woman was making crêpes, I ordered a mushroom crêpe, it was basically a crêpe with mushrooms in it, nothing else, like really nothing else, everybody seemed to find that normal, when I asked why wouldn't she add at least cream or butter and herbs, a way to season them, she and a customer on the side talked to me like like I was the weird one. My experience in a nutshell.

 

[Frank Dernie]

I've lived in England, the food culture is by far the worst I've ever seen, it's the only time I've ever been shocked on this subject. It's puzzling cos other cultural areas were pretty sophisticated, the contrast makes it look like a void. I tried to understand, find a reason, didn't succeed. I also heard many times from english people ''it's getting a lot better'', ''that's a stereotype'', they clearly don't see it, so I don't see them fix it anytime soon.
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Where in England did you live?
Within a 20 mile radius of here I can eat in Michelin starred restaurants and pretty well any cuisine there is.
Within walking distance of my house in a small town an excellent traditional English restaurant, a Bangladeshi restaurant, an Indian restaurant, a Thai restaurant, a Taiwanese restaurant, a pizzeria and a US fast food place. There are others but they aren't very good.
I lived in France for 4 years and generally ate very well but pretty well only French food, so a bit boring, there was one (usually empty) Indian restaurant which served bland curries and a very popular Pizzaria.