Just wondering

[petronia]

Am I the only one with a category of music labelled "I don't like it exactly, I just listen to it a lot"?

(Most synth pop, new wave, glam and j-rock, by a sort of atmospheric saturation. As opposed to radio-friendly rock nowadays I seem to loathe consistently. Although we have established that I have no taste in music though I might in everything else, lack of indie cred and never agreeing with the NME being almost the least of my problems, so my categories do not by any means have to resemble your categories.

I am getting around to admitting to myself that I like Gackt's music. For the longest time I couldn't decide whether this was true or not.)

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[metempsychosis.livejournal.com]

lack of indie cred and never agreeing with the NME being almost the least of my problems

But indiecred /consists/ of never agreeing with the NME. ^_^

Most pop - and, bizarrely, house - falls into my category of 'don't like much but will often listen': I'm incredibly tolerant of badpopmusik and equally intolerant of most alternative despite the fact that it's what I listen to by choice. Though, actually, I've become incredbly inured to everything on my winamp playlist and can't remember whether I like it or not, just know that it's there.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

(RARR late with comments again. No good w/ this system.)

I'm almost certain I disagree with the NME because I'm square, not because I'm too hip. It gives me a line to fall back on, tho'. XD

A lot of people say that about the Winamp playlist, I find... I rarely have more than ten songs in the playlist at a time, though, so the stuff I don't like, I end up forgetting it's on my hard drive at all.

[metempsychosis.livejournal.com]

(is okay: have been, after all, kind of absent. ^_^)

You're so square you're hip! Or so hip you're square! In fact, you're squip! Anyway, in my world most NME journos are square because they refuse to accept the importance of popmuzik, so.

...woah. I only ever use playlists that aren't everything on my hard drive when I'm making a mix cd or writing something very specific. I keep having to check that I've got enough free space - obscurely terrified of running out of it - so I tend to go through and weed the music folder every month or so, which means I don't forget its contents. If I can't remember the song or it takes up too much space, I'll delete it, which leaves me in the bizarre position of having almost no Sonic Youth on my playlist when they're one of my favourite bands ever, and lots of Primal Scream - who I'm relatively indifferent to - because they're consistently good rather than occasionally /wonderful/.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It's cos I use music to manage my mood, like mixing prescription pills. ^_^; I also go through these periods of listening to *one* thing over and over - nothing but seventies prog-rock or Japanese trance - for a week or two, and then I move onto something else. Until six months later, when I abruptly come back to it for another week, the MP3s having languished on my hard drive in the meanwhile. So what *I'm* terrified of is suddenly craving a particular song/genre, then finding that I've deleted it. Every once I do a mass delete, but I burn the music folder onto CDs first.

It's all about the '80s popmuzik this week. I don't agree with the NME twenty years ago either! Go me... I think.

[metempsychosis.livejournal.com]

I do pretty much the same thing, although I only burn the ones I'm deleting to cd - and it's damn useful that I do, because there's been more than one song I've suddenly craved and had to dig out my data cds to find. ^_^

I'm actually probably quite similar, except with what goes in my discman: it's not by genre, but - for example - last week was nothing but Steve Reich and N*E*R*D, the week before that *Nsync and New Order, before /that/ Idlewild and Ben Christophers. Which means I always have to take really diverse CDs with me whenever I go away, because there's no telling what random couple my brain will fix on as the listening choice of the moment. As far as MP3s and what I watch on music channels goes, I don't really specify.

[keieru.livejournal.com]

I couldn't say, because I'm vulnerable to "if I listen to it a lot, I will like it."

It's really the only reason why I like radio-friendly rock. And it's why I try to be selective as to what goes into Winamp -- because if it gets on the playlist, I will listen to it on repeat for the next month or so, and fall desperately in love with it. Guaranteed.