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Originally Posted by Certain

I will say that experience in listening to music (and, particularly, specific genres) is very valuable. Also, some people naturally are more analytic and critical of everything.

I'm with you in that regard. I kind of take personality to be one of the biggest factors in musical tastes and how someone is as a musician. Some people naturally look for more intellectual challenges, like yourself and our boy Mael. It's been so cool during the past few years seeing how music's just a part of that. Please, both of you keep it up.


But I can't really stand genre labels. Most music (until more recently) was so cross-pollinated and personal that there was an element of something else everywhere. Black Sabbath was about as 'jazzy' as Coltrane's earlier years, and late Coltrane was so much more 'metal' than they ever were... lately pop music seems to be talking down to its consumers, and while there's nothing wrong with some mindless enjoyment (it's made specifically for us to like it after all) that kind of critical thinking that you have puts you like 2 steps from understanding Charlie Parker and Wagner to a degree that would make it accessible to you.

All I mean to say is that any sort of music that gets you to think or want to challenge yourself further, regardless of 'genre', is a valuable listening experience.


and that you're all great



I'll shut up now and save my crap for essays and papers lol