Talent Free - Hot air please

These kind of threads upset people who find one of their favourites attacked - search out the Freddie Mercury thread to see what I mean, it makes you realise that some people really like artists that I would always turn off.

So I don't want to offend anybody just because I detest everything I have heard with Phil Collins singing on it (though I liked early Genesis when they were Peter Gabriel's backing group). This really just means I don't like PC.

Hi all!
A lot of people talk about music splitting it in good or bad.
I think that people have the right to listen to what they like.
All of us make their mind using their experience.
I have my yardstick for music that makes me devide it in boring or not.
In rhetorical or not.
Music must excite me in any meaning we can give to the word.

Our likes and dislikes say nothing about who or what we like or dislike but says everything about ourselves.

If one person thinks James Blunt is great and another thinks him truly dreadful can we say there are two James Blunts? Any fault you perceive comes from your head and not from James Blunt because if the fault was truly in James Blunt then everyone would feel as you do, and they don't, do they?

Good luck to him says I. There really is little point to a thread like this IMO.

Another negative Thread! I thought this phenomonon, so unpleasant of itself, had burned itself out.

I have many pet hates, but choose not to offend those who have different ones, by refusing to air my own in public!

Fredrik

So much music so little time, I don't have the time or inclination to add to a thread dishing people I don't like because I just don't listen to them.

HOWEVER, I do remember a job I had that had a "classic fm" station on ALL the time. I think if I was still being subjected to this that maybe I would be posting with venom.

It was around the time that Byran Adams was no 1 with "Everything I do" - if James Blunt is getting that sort of coverage and people are being force fed it I think I can sympatise with this topic a liitle more.


John

Dear John,

If the most painful aspect of your life is to be forced to listen to Classic FM, or some mournful popular artist, then you are indeed blessed. Whining about it would do you no credit, if you actually were to do it! Sincerely, in my humble opinion, of course!

Fredrik

Erik, nicely expressed.

Diccus62, you suggest that most threads on the forums are praising the things we like. Unfortunately, for those of us who've been lurking/posting here long enough, we've seen the opposite over and over again. Not just limited to music artists, but also which brand of computer/speakers/car etc. that you own.
I guess we all like a good moan from time to time, but seeing the same thing repeatedly gets annoying.
Fortunately there are many useful and informative threads here to keep us coming back.

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Dear John,

If the most painful aspect of your life is to be forced to listen to Classic FM, or some mournful popular artist, then you are indeed blessed.

Dear Frederick,

There are obviously better and worse things going on in my life at the moment, but this is the "Music Room".

I was in the Supermarket the other night and one of the girls from one checkout was saying to the other (who had just come on work) "They have being playing that %$£(&%^ing CD all day and it's wrecking my head"

I can fully sympathise, as much as I love music I much prefer silence to music I hate. To me it would feel a form of torture.

It's hard to get tone right in a forum and this is not meant to sound offenisive (as in "on the offensive") as I feel you and I have the same opinion about negative posts in general.

Regards
John

Fair points and respect to more experienced members of the Forum. I will keep my grumpy old man rants to myself.

Sorry if I offended anyone

Happy Easter

Dear John, and Discus,

I don't think anything vaguely offensive has been said here by anyone. Good show! Fredrik

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Originally posted by Sloop John B:
I was in the Supermarket the other night and one of the girls from one checkout was saying to the other (who had just come on work) "They have being playing that %$£(&%^ing CD all day and it's wrecking my head"

I once stayed in a hotel that played the four seasons (or possibly just sping) on a loop in the dinning room every morning which has probably contributed to my general dislike of the piece.

regards, Tam

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Originally posted by Diccus62:
Fair points and respect to more experienced members of the Forum. I will keep my grumpy old man rants to myself.

Sorry if I offended anyone

Happy Easter

Diccus,

There is a grumpy old man ranting thread in the rubber room which ia sadly under used IMO. Please feel welcome to use it.

Erik

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Another negative Thread! I thought this phenomonon, so unpleasant of itself, had burned itself out.

I agree Fredrik.

The current penchant for "pack like" carping at things we personally don't like is very depressing and negative.

All that happens as a result is that everything begins to look/sound/feel the same, and people become less inclined to try new things.

How dreary. Why not try three artists/composers that you wouldn't normally listen to each month?

Steve

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Originally posted by Steve S1:
Why not try three artists/composers that you wouldn't normally listen to each month?

Steve

An interesting concept.

Do you mean three I've never heard of or three which I've dismissed in the I don't like section?

Anybody care to recommend something a little out of the ordinary?

James Blunt? Fredrik

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Originally posted by ROTF:
Anybody care to recommend something a little out of the ordinary?

Don Ellis - Electric Bath (like no jazz, or for that matter any other genre, record I've ever heard).

regards, Tam

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Do you mean three I've never heard of or three which I've dismissed in the I don't like section?

Why not? Using internet retailers I buy several discs that others recommend here, or that I read about in Gramophone/Mojo etc.

I stick them in the car first (I have a 100 mile round trip to work) - I give each at least three plays (unless I violently object on first hearing).

Needless to say, if I like them they make it to the rack - if not, they get sold on/given away.

Some of my favourite discs arrived this way.

It's a good discipline for me, otherwise the temptation to stay with what I know, or play safe with back catalogue is easy to fall into.

Success rate is about one in four I reckon, and the joy of finding something to add to my favourites never diminishes.

Steve.