Never had much trouble with the music I grew up with...."pooh-poohing" is much
harder for me to get a handle on....but I'm over it now.

My musical tastes have always been, and probably will always be the same.  I like what I like and I don't like what I don't like.  I don't really see that changing.  Ever.

My wife says I'm stunted, opinionated, and ridiculously narrow-minded.  I say music is like food.  If you have to try to like, if it requires effort to overcome your revulsion, if you are constantly working to overcome your natural impulse to hurl, then it's just not worth it. 

It's like when someone tries to con me into eating some horrible putrescent plant-based slime with the comment, "You can hardly taste the okra/rhubarb/skunkweed/etc."  If the best thing you can say about a type of food is, "It's almost tasteless", then I don't want to eat it.  I apply the same immature and stubborn standard to music. 

She tells me my salad has nothing but lettuce.  I stop arguing and eat.

My teenage musical tastes are what has actually set a base of the musical styles I tend to listen to. This also got me into playing guitar and those influences have stayed with me.
I generally like anything that's melodic, so it's easy for me to accept/listen to various styles and genre's.


Wait a minute Bubba!

Isn't skunkweed....................
























organic food? 

Monkey poop is organic, too.  It doesn't mean I want to eat it.  Fling it?  Sure!  Scrape it off your shoes?  Of course!  Dress it up in an old, worn flannel robe and call it, "Mother"?  Uh...no, me neither. 

That's not mine.

UbiquitousBubba

I say music is like food.  If you have to try to like, if it requires effort to overcome your revulsion, if you are constantly working to overcome your natural impulse to hurl, then it's just not worth it.  

M corollary, for food, is that if you have to work at in any way it's not worth it. I can't be arsed to pull what little meat there is off of a chicken wing.

I'm so cool with my teenage musical self, that my kids sing along to Depeche Mode in the car. 

julibee


I'm so cool with my teenage musical self, that my kids sing along to Depeche Mode in the car. 

I think the OP said taste Jules.


I keed I keed.

My kids listen to Rush and Dream Theater and their friends wonder what that is...

Sometimes I regret that I was such a musical snob in my younger days. If it wasn't in 13/8 time it wasn't worth listening to was my attitude.

It took me 35 years to realize how good AC/DC is at doing what they do.  And Southern Rock has nothing to be ashamed about.  And James Brown could do more with 4/4 than most bands can do with 7/8.

Mod Bod

And James Brown could do more with 4/4 than most bands can do with 7/8. 

But you did not say a word about tempo. What's wrong with 121.789953579?