Why do you like what you like?

Originally Posted by: schmangeJeez.. I thought that joke was so obvious. Popeye is a cartoon character who's famous line was "I am what I am".
So anytime somebody says "I am what I am" around you, you look at them really weird and reply "You're Popeye??".
I thought that's what you meant by adding to the end of your sentence.
Just an old joke.

Anyhoo.... the only reason I'm against using the words 'love' or 'baby' in top 40 songs is because it's been overdone so much that it's a become a joke.
I'm not a big fan of a.m. radio type music and it just seems sometimes like every song on those 'clearchannel' stations is either about love or has the word baby in it.
And a baby to me is one of those little loud crying things that cost you a coupla hundred thousand dollars over 20 years.... so everytime I hear a guy singing stuff like 'ooh baby I love you', I think of a grown man saying stuff like that to a little kid.

Uhm.... Sorry, dude. My bad. I apologize. Didn"t get that popeye stuff... I am rather slow today.Forgot to eat my spinache... :D
As for cry babies? They don"t cost that much. I have tried one out few months ago, really nice sound. Costs bout 150 $. :D :D
Sorry for the missunderstanding. I am from Croatia, bare that in mind. Some of the stuff you say may sound weird to me. And vice versa.

Originally Posted by: KrunekUhm.... Sorry, dude. My bad. I apologize. Didn"t get that popeye stuff... I am rather slow today.Forgot to eat my spinache... :D
As for cry babies? They don"t cost that much. I have tried one out few months ago, really nice sound. Costs bout 150 $. :D :D
Sorry for the missunderstanding. I am from Croatia, bare that in mind. Some of the stuff you say may sound weird to me. And vice versa.

No problem dood.. subtle humour with cultural references don't translate well between countries. It happens all the time & I just forget. I can't count the times I've been talking to somebody like a tech support person and not realizing they were in India or something. I'll make a subtle joke that only a Canadian would get and I just get this awkward silence instead of a laugh.

Molim, ništa zato.

Originally Posted by: z0s0_jpMolim, ništa zato.

Nemoj me. HRVAT??? I šutiš dosad? Pa kaj ne veliš!! Go, naši! Otkud si iz Hrvatske?

Originally Posted by: schmangeNo problem dood.. subtle humour with cultural references don't translate well between countries. It happens all the time & I just forget. I can't count the times I've been talking to somebody like a tech support person and not realizing they were in India or something. I'll make a subtle joke that only a Canadian would get and I just get this awkward silence instead of a laugh.

Here, so you wouldn"t feel bad... Ha-ha-ha. ;)
Hey, did you checked out the slide thing? What do you think about it?
You can post a reply in the other thread. The one bout the slide.

Originally Posted by: schmange
Then 5 years later you listen to the album again and realize there's a whole bunch of stuff you never noticed before because you didn't have the knowledge you have now

Definitely. Five years ago, Odyssey Number Five by Powderfinger was one of my favourite rock albums, just because I really liked the lyrics. After I started playing bass and guitar, it was still one of my favourites, because I began to really appreciate the instrumental work. And now that I've written a few things of my own, it's higher still on the favourites list because I appreciate what goes into writing a good song, and I can really appreciate the songwriting on the album.

All this may sound hard to believe about a Powderfinger album :D, but if you've never checked it out, I suggest you give it a try. It isn't super-sophisticated or technical, but it's got some depth to it and it's really well written - the first four chords are what made me want to play electric guitar.

I say a lot of the music I listesn came from my family and friend's being like "hey this band's awesome." Other stuff, of course, I found on my own as well.

Why I like what I like, I don't know. I like mostly anything... even bad mainstream rap/hipiity hop. I like bands not genres.

"I'll make a subtle joke that only a Canadian would get and I just get this awkward silence instead of a laugh"


Candians making jokes? Surely you jest. (No, I'm not kidding and stop calling me Shirley!)

:)

Originally Posted by: schmangeThis is probably way out there but it might be possible you could be born with a certain amount of preference in music too.

yeah, I was born and raised on the Allman bros and the Doobies, still love them and could sing you every part of every song.

in Middle school, I got into ska. probably because it was so dancable.

since GT, Ive totally gotten into metal. specially Dream Theater, Dragon force, Iron Maiden, Symphony X.... etc.

meh. I donno. Metal and Ska are basically opposites, but I love them both. and Classic rock is quite different from both those too, and Ive always loved it.

part of it could be what you were raised on. but just as your taste in things like food changes over time, I guess your taste in music changes too.

blame the homones.

Sorry if one of you already mentioned this, but do you think there's a relationship between exposure to something and liking it? My dad is a bluegrass kind of guy, so I've grown up listening to Flatt & Scruggs and all that jib. I wouldn't say I like it, but I'd choose it over, say, jazz fusion. Do you think that's because of the constant exposure factor, or is it simply a preference of mine?

Man, this crap makes my head hurt.

Yeah, its kind of like taste in food. What every you get, is what you get used to and you have a tendency to like it, because you're used to it. Look at that run on sentence.

Originally Posted by: Cryptic ExcretionsThe style doesn't really matter, I just listen for a good choice of notes.

Exactly the same for me, altought the rythm is also very important, but if it's a good solo/lead without a constant rythm, then it doesn't matter really much.

Originally Posted by: earthman buckSorry if one of you already mentioned this, but do you think there's a relationship between exposure to something and liking it? My dad is a bluegrass kind of guy, so I've grown up listening to Flatt & Scruggs and all that jib. I wouldn't say I like it, but I'd choose it over, say, jazz fusion. Do you think that's because of the constant exposure factor, or is it simply a preference of mine?

Man, this crap makes my head hurt.

Sure, why not? But there's more to it than that I think. You are exposed to certain music and by that exposure, you link that music to certain experiences. You may not like bluegrass but it was the soundtrack playing during your youth. You can't help but have a bit of a soft spot for it. Look, I graduated high school in 1978. You know what music was HUGE back then? Disco. I HATE disco music. Really. But there are songs that even know kinda make me smile when I hear them. And when they come on the radio, I don't immediately turn them off. Because they take me back to that time. When I was in Korea, New Wave was king. Duran-Duran and Billy Idol and such were very popular. I still don't own a CD by anyone from that era but they still mean something to me. But as you grow, your tastes change and mature and you become much more willing to go out on a limb and tell your buddies, "No, I don't care for that" or "Yeah, I like that" even if everyone else claims not to like it. You become much more willing to start trusting your own ear and your own instincts.

That's the greatest plus to growing up. You get to make your own choices.

Different mood - different music