It's not the length of the piece that bothers me, it's the overall orchestraness [sic].
Mozart doesn't do much for me even in smaller ensemble pieces ...
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Do You know Anyone Who Doesn’t Like Music?
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It's not the length of the piece that bothers me, it's the overall orchestraness [sic].
Mozart doesn't do much for me even in smaller ensemble pieces ...
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I reckon, my Missus.
On the basis that she never asks me to put music on.
On the basis that she never asks me to put music on.
Elevator music; "The Hollyridge Strings Play the Beatles", as an example.
I think most of us have overheard or had someone tell us they object to music but, in my experience, they're objecting to some aspect of the playback - usually volume or what they perceive as 'too much bass'. I don't think I've ever heard someone say they don't like music at all; that's a bit weird.
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I listen to tonnes of really orchestry stuff. I've got Bruno Walter's 1960 (or so) recordings of Mozart's last symphonies in permanent rotation in my car's CD player. Hard to get much more orchestraness than the finale of Mozart's "Jupiter" symphony. But different strokes and all that. I've got a general allergy to most metal. YouTube doesn't properly represent Bruno Walter's last recording of the Jupiter symphony, but I like the Sir Charles Mackerras/ Scottish Chamber Orchestra recording even more:
I doubt that anyone is keen on every genre of music, and most of us are strongly triggered by certain types. For me it's twangy country, rap, hip-hop and thrash metal. The country trigger is a reaction to being dragged from one country bar to another as a kid. Rap and hip-hop make me feel tense, and I don't want my music to make me feel tense. Same for thrash.
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Don't have the country allergy. Dad shot pool in bars that were showing sports with the sound on. Guess what form of entertainment I now have an allergy to?
There's some early Rap/Hip Hop I like, there's more recent stuff that doesn't work for me. Then again, I'm 70, give me a break. The attached article is quite informative and contains some of my favorite sampling in a Rap track, seeing as it has one of the finest P-Funk tracks as its foundation:
Story Behind The Sample: How 'Atomic Dog' helped Snoop Dogg
How Parliament Funkadelic's 'Atomic Dog' helped Snoop Dogg become a megastar with his Dr Dre produced hit single 'Who Am I (What's My Name?) in 1993.
I can't really come up with a rational explanation for my dislike of most metal. I blame it on Pat Boone.
The Hollyridge Strings!Writing about canaries in hotel rooms of Australia, the humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- w/tongue-in-cheek -- said:
Muzak? Anyone?
I hate background music and leave anywhere it is playing unless unavoidable or very quiet.
I can't stand music when I am trying to do something else, particularly work and the idea of working at a computer whist speakers either side of the screen are making any sort of noise at all is horrendous to me.
But I have Asperger's, now known as "high functioning autism" so it is probably the autism at work.
I also find most pop music banal after a while, even if it has a catchy hook I enjoy and play a lot at first. The more complex and intriguing the arrangement or orchestration the more likely I am still listening to the piece for decades.
I still play Schubert piano sonatas I first bought 50 years ago but have only played Beatles records I bought at the same time a couple of times since I got bored by them.
I can't stand music when I am trying to do something else, particularly work and the idea of working at a computer whist speakers either side of the screen are making any sort of noise at all is horrendous to me.
But I have Asperger's, now known as "high functioning autism" so it is probably the autism at work.
I also find most pop music banal after a while, even if it has a catchy hook I enjoy and play a lot at first. The more complex and intriguing the arrangement or orchestration the more likely I am still listening to the piece for decades.
I still play Schubert piano sonatas I first bought 50 years ago but have only played Beatles records I bought at the same time a couple of times since I got bored by them.
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You mean to say that you posted the above without music in the bg?
I can only take this place, if I have music in the background.
The chance to really know people who don't like music is less than 5% if you accept this video. It gives a nice summary of this anhedonia and assumes that it correlates with people who are less social than normal. We use sound to communicate after all.
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No offense intended, boomer.
No, I’m a gen-x like yourself. Just pointing out that there is good and bad music in any era. Even though I apparently grew up with the same stuff you did I would choose some rather different examples of what was good from that time …
Yes, there are exceptions of course, but the general silliness is tiresome even though some of the music can be fine. Macho posturing while dressed up to go to a childrens halloween party is hard to take seriously for long. It seems to me that most metal (and rap/hiphop for that matter) is made exclusively for thirteen year old boys and is intentionally incomprehensible to any other demographic.
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For me, it so depends on what mood I'm in. Sometimes when driving and Dolly sings "nine to five" as I pass through the channels on the radio, I start tapping the steering wheel and suddenly have a great time, forgetting all my troubles for a little while - I can't do that with a lot of modern music, well... sometimes.... but the rhythm and pacing is just different... and maybe I'm just getting older
But when I fiddle in the work shop with either the next speaker or my car, I actually enjoy the little sounds from tools and maybe the birds outside, because I believe that you can both feel and hear when a bolt is getting stuck, when metal parts fit, when wood you just sanded is smooth or the drill is just about to come through the other side. And for a moment, I dislike music and yapping radio hosts - well - I never really like those.
If music was blasting in the background, you kinda close down all your senses a bit, I feel. Even though - at times - taking off wheels with an impact wrench and just slapping on the new ones, while wearing big cupped hearing protection so that almost all sound disappear - it's actually really nice - because it's quick, rewarding, and I guess my hearing is a bit sensitive too.
While picking up my sister this one time. She told me to either turn up the radio or turn it off.... I still remember this, and it makes quite good sense, unless you have a certain type of angst, like one of my friends. For him, any type of music in the background, sooths him... and if it is too quiet.... he gets unsettled.
Sound/audio matters to me, which is why I fiddle so much with my HIFI system. But sometimes I think it does not sound good, even though I just dialed everything in with all my effort. And then, I just don't listen to music - take a break - and do something else.
My sister though - ever since I threw those LS50 Meta at her, with an added sub - she likes music a little more again
But when I fiddle in the work shop with either the next speaker or my car, I actually enjoy the little sounds from tools and maybe the birds outside, because I believe that you can both feel and hear when a bolt is getting stuck, when metal parts fit, when wood you just sanded is smooth or the drill is just about to come through the other side. And for a moment, I dislike music and yapping radio hosts - well - I never really like those.
If music was blasting in the background, you kinda close down all your senses a bit, I feel. Even though - at times - taking off wheels with an impact wrench and just slapping on the new ones, while wearing big cupped hearing protection so that almost all sound disappear - it's actually really nice - because it's quick, rewarding, and I guess my hearing is a bit sensitive too.
While picking up my sister this one time. She told me to either turn up the radio or turn it off.... I still remember this, and it makes quite good sense, unless you have a certain type of angst, like one of my friends. For him, any type of music in the background, sooths him... and if it is too quiet.... he gets unsettled.
Sound/audio matters to me, which is why I fiddle so much with my HIFI system. But sometimes I think it does not sound good, even though I just dialed everything in with all my effort. And then, I just don't listen to music - take a break - and do something else.
My sister though - ever since I threw those LS50 Meta at her, with an added sub - she likes music a little more again
I don't know what Nickelback is, but it isn't metal.
I didn't like them right from the off, even though, at the time, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to like them.
It wasn't a surprise to me to discover lots of people feel the same.
I don't know why I don't like them though. Nothing wrong with their musicianship or song construction.
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