What is needed in music for you to enjoy it?

Fall_Child42 · Post by **Fall_Child42** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:58 pm

Wow that's a good question...considering the stuff I find myself listening too, it would be very hard for me to pin down what i like or don't like in music.

I suppose for an overarching principle it would have to be blandness, I detest blandness, everything else causes me to enjoy the music.

No what is bland to me may be exciting to another, so i suppose beauty is in the ear of the beholder.

Tono_Fyr · Post by **Tono_Fyr** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:18 am

For me, there has to be some level of complexity and integrity to the music itself.

Like, I don't like listening to music, and then counting off the cords when they're all the same 3 and always in the EXACT SAME PATERN, never changing for the full three to four minutes of a song (god forbid any of them ever decide to try to write anything longer - I think my head would explode).

As far as integrity, "does this feel like it was made for money?". An album made entirely for money generally is also a very simple form.

And one last thing that makes me urge to change the music if I have to listen to someone else's music. Crappy lyrics. You know the kind, the "oh, oh, love me baby" of the Dirty Pop artists from the mid ninties to now, and the "yeah, yeah, bitches and hoes, smokin' dope (WHEW!)" that you hear out of a lot of rap artists to a stale, "Same thing over and over and over and over again" beat.

Of course, that's not to say there aren't a few good rap songs (there are no good pop songs, though), but just that I find the vast majority of what plays on the radio so irritating, and the entire "gansta" culture that's formed around it so pointless, that it drives me a bit nuts every time I have to hear any of it.

I quit listening to the radio a year or two ago, so that solves all of my problems.

bum · Post by **bum** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:26 am

I listen to my music based on what tono aproves off and considers good, inteligent music by talented artists who are realy in it just for the music. Most rap is about ho's, money and hot cars. Pop music is just as bad except worse because its marketed towards 12 year old girls. Oh and so is alot of rock, like linkin parka nd evanescene. Dance and techno are pretty repetitive to, so throw them in tono's bag of the music msot people listen to is shit. Prog metal off cource is the purest, greatest and most sophisticated type of music. Esspecialy when you sit at home alone listening to it, because other than major gigs thats the only way to listen to music.

Iamshadowkiller · Post by **Iamshadowkiller** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:37 am

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CerebralAssamite · Post by **CerebralAssamite** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:20 am

Instrumentality for me, main reason I dont enjoy R+B, Rap, Techno or Linkin Park, there is no new sound to their music, grunge, metal and old school music (50's-70's) give this to me, with different sounds I feel different emotions. If music doesn't give me that, I just cannot listen to it.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:58 am

Some type of decent song-writing ability. Hence why I don't listen to the radio. It'd be a miracle if The Grand Conjuration got on the radio, even the 5 minute edit of it.

I never gave a fuck what was popular really. I listen to my Nile, Death, Cynic, Opeth, Nevermore, etc. All the radio kiddies listen to their fiddy and nickelback.

Koyashed · Post by **Koyashed** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:07 am

A tempo I can ride and a climax

lenu · Post by **lenu** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 1:19 pm

Fast and heavy music that has a melodic quality to it as well, with good, well-written lyrics.

-GfN- · Post by **-GfN-** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:06 am

well, leaving the fact aside I like Metal, the music has to come up with pictures inside my head, sth I can associate it with, like movies in your head...guess why the best music is used for amv's

moreover, some feelings and an atmosphere have to be captured. important is this doesn't sound forced but organic and natural...
(I like more depressive and melancholic songs)

the last, but, however, not least factor is the musical quality, because the other factors would not be realised if this wasn't given...

...oh: and it don't has to be mainstream (=the downfall of individuality

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Sayonara,

Jannis Nätke alias -Good for Nothing-

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:49 pm

To me music is the art of sound not the art of lyrics. Lyrics is just the cherry on top.. and it's odd to me when people need lyrics to like any specific music.. the way a song is vocalized could express a lot and many of certain emotions and feelings and other elements in a song could do the same.

I don't need anything really specific in music.. I'll either naturally like it or not.. though I do go gaga over great vocalists/and unique ones like MSI and the old school disturbed..(they have a huge range in how they vocalize.. and it's cool how disturbed changes his vocals from normal to quite frightening... O_O)

I give just about everything a chance since each genre of music has its sub genres. I don't jump to the conclusion that something sucks or doesn't unless I've really looked into it.

The only music I can't stand is country.. maybe because it always has to be vocalized a certain way and to me it feels like there isn't enough variety and also maybe it's just because it reminds me of rednecks.

Metal.. I don't know if you are suppose to know what they are saying to really get it.. what exactly drives people to liking metal.. is it the bulging amount of anger that comes from it.. is it all anger music.. I'm kinda interested in it and don't know much about it or why people like it.. all I know about that is I like some of it and some of it sounds like garbage to me.

Rap/Hip Hop.. Is the art of lyrics.. not the art of sound.. too much of it is basic repetitive beats that repeat themselves over and over(good beat or bad.. still gets repetitive) with lyrics as support. Sometimes I barely hear many other elements in certain rap.. and it doesn't seem to matter too much how it is vocalized.. you just need attitude in what your saying or whatever.. some rap I like but a lot of it I don't understand. If I think something sounds repetitive and I don't like how it sounds in general.. I usually get people defending it by talking about it's lyrics.. I don't give a crap about the lyrics if the music sounds like shit.

Rock.. it goes from upbeat, downbeat, soft, hard.. has a great range in the way it is vocalized.. I have soo many reasons to like it while rap has a lot of limits to it that make me not like it as much.. and it too is also upbeat, downbeat, etc..

I also really like electronic music and there is like a hundred different sub genres for it. So unless you've experimented with a lot of different types.. it's going to be really hard for someone who doesn't like it telling me it sucks.. I just go off with the feeling that that individual is close minded.

any comments/opinions on what I just said? Feel free to bash me or enlighten me.. I don't mind.

also any other general comments and other posts relating to my very first post would be good too.

/rambling... -_-