Petty reasons to dislike music

Read the title then come back to me. Back? Okay. What are yours?

To start off, I am not fond of albums that are just one long song or an album without the songs being broken into their stated parts, sometimes even albums that contain only a few songs of which all of them are very long will end up relegated to the Not Listened To Often pile.

For example, if an album consists of two songs, both of which are 30 minutes, it turns me off liking it or putting it on. If that same album was those two songs broken down into smaller pieces, I would probably like it. It certainly affects how much doom metal I listen to, as well as others like DJ mixes and so on.

There is a 30 minute song by Tesseract that I love, but it's broken into six pieces, so I don't mind it being long. But Yob, who have some songs over 25 minutes, I don't like listening to. Also Earth 2, which is technically one 70 minute song broken into 3 chunks, but 3 chunks still so large I find myself not listening to it. Among others.

It is irrational. I have no defence.

this is really dumb but i don't really listen to various artist compilations because i have no idea how to organize them digitally. i hate having a "various artist" tag in my artist folder that consists of dozens of albums with hundreds of artists in it. this would not be a problem if my primary music intake was on physical media.

i hated song in general

im of the opinion that you like what you listen to, not what you like.. listen to only schalger for a month and you will end up liking it

because WATMM doesn't like it

Like you Bech, I don't like really long songs in general. I struggle to listen to most of Else-q....

Ironically, I like Goldie's - Mother (the 60m one). lol  

because WATMM likes it

  On 9/9/2016 at 8:49 PM, keanu reeves said:

this is really dumb but i don't really listen to various artist compilations because i have no idea how to organize them digitally. i hate having a "various artist" tag in my artist folder that consists of dozens of albums with hundreds of artists in it. this would not be a problem if my primary music intake was on physical media.

i have maybe 3 or 4 various artist comps in my collection. i simply don't enjoy listening to single tracks by different artists, very hard for me to get into the mood.*

on a similar note i don't like singles or 45s.

i'm an album man i guess.

*an exception is for so called "world music" but lots of this stuff is only available in the form of compilations so there's nothing I can do about that. plus i'm racist so I'm ok having my different Pygmy tracks lumped together.

yeah on that note i absolutely never break up albums or delete songs because i can't stand having single tracks in my library. i don't even bother with singles, which is ridiculous for an electronic music listener. and then if an album isn't very good but has a good song on it, i just delete the album and wish them better luck next time. albums til i die.

It bothers me when I listen to vinyl rips of stuff, especially limited releases that are really hard to get. It's like I'm not listening to the real thing.

Shouldn't the topic title read "Petty Reasons Not to Like Certain Kinds of Music?"

For me, I can't stand compilations either, for the same reasons Keanu mentioned.

Oh, and I hate multi-CD releases, again because they don't translate well into the digital music management world.

  On 9/9/2016 at 9:02 PM, keanu reeves said:

yeah on that note i absolutely never break up albums or delete songs because i can't stand having single tracks in my library. i don't even bother with singles, which is ridiculous for an electronic music listener. and then if an album isn't very good but has a good song on it, i just delete the album and wish them better luck next time. albums til i die.

Geez, man - you and I are like digital music soulmates

i'm the same with multi cd releases. i consolidate the ones i really like (saw vol ii, drukqs) into one long tracklist but i hate them in general.

I'm generally anti-compilation for the same reasons mentioned above. 

It has an acid line

It has an 808

1) Sometimes I can't help but see taste-in-music as some unconscious social or cultural game that we're playing...we seem to reject music (at least occasionally) based on the values and concepts it promotes, rather than simply whether or not the mere sounds themselves are pleasing...I don't know if that's petty or not, but it seems to not be about the music per se, but rather about ideology or morality or whatever...(e.g. I won't even give Justin Beiber a chance because of the cynical games that are being played behind the scenes, and how distasteful I find his whole persona...and who the hell is gonna give the Lost Prophets a chance? like 'yeah, the dude fucked a baby but who knows, might have some killer riffs')

2) There's something weird going on with our need to categorize things...and perhaps it makes it really easy to not engage things on their own terms and merits...(or at least I know that I occasionally do that)

3) yeah, I have trouble with longer music...is this a generational thing?

This isn't even music related, but if I don't like the album art (esp. if it looks cheap/uninspired) the music has a 40% higher chance to not be of my likings. When I browse huge netlabel Bandcamps, I only open the ones with art that I like.

  On 9/9/2016 at 9:04 PM, Joyrex said:

Shouldn't the topic title read "Petty Reasons Not to Like Certain Kinds of Music?"

 

For me, I can't stand compilations either, for the same reasons Keanu mentioned.

 

Oh, and I hate multi-CD releases, again because they don't translate well into the digital music management world.

  On 9/9/2016 at 9:02 PM, keanu reeves said:

yeah on that note i absolutely never break up albums or delete songs because i can't stand having single tracks in my library. i don't even bother with singles, which is ridiculous for an electronic music listener. and then if an album isn't very good but has a good song on it, i just delete the album and wish them better luck next time. albums til i die.

Geez, man - you and I are like digital music soulmates

I wanted it to feel clickbaity. Get people in here and get those precious views / clicks.

Also multi-CD releases I despised until I began to rip them all into the same album folder. Totally fine with it now.

And album artwork discouraging you I can relate to. If it's totally garbage, it really can put me off liking the music. One of my favourite artists Bourbonese Qualk have TERRIBLE artwork but I just about manage to ignore my retching when listening.

  On 9/9/2016 at 8:49 PM, keanu reeves said:

this is really dumb but i don't really listen to various artist compilations because i have no idea how to organize them digitally. i hate having a "various artist" tag in my artist folder that consists of dozens of albums with hundreds of artists in it. this would not be a problem if my primary music intake was on physical media.

I just categorize by album, as in every folder is its own release. It doesn't bother me as much that way.

Yeah but when you click back into Artist it turns into a mess again. I can feel Keanu Reeves' pain. Remix albums I used to spend so much time editing the track info (changing the name of artist to the remixer and editing the track title to include the name of the remixed) keeps it nice and neat on the screen but it's a pain in the dick.

Can't stand classical (or even freaking "cuntemporary" for that reason) albums that have a fuckton of people mentioned in the artist field.

Look at this vomit:

https://www.discogs.com/Britten-P%C3%A4rt-Neeme-J%C3%A4rvi-Bergen-Philharmonic-Orchestra-The-Young-Persons-Guide-to-the-Orchestra-Sy/release/8343621

And also:

https://www.discogs.com/Xenakis-Del-Tredici-Takemitsu-Nono-Richard-Dufallo-Conducting-The-Festival-Chamber-Ensemble-Phyllis-/master/183621

Who the fuck are all these people?!

I get what you mean but that one doesn't seem so bad. There's only like 6 people involved?

when my shitty hipster friends starting talk-liking music i enjoy i invariably start focusing on its faults and flaws and eventually wind up hating it.

"oh yeah moodymann, moodymann is so effing slick man - real detroit vibes holllaaa"

*burns rare moodymann CDs*

*dinner knife to the temple*

An artist's fan base can be brutal to my enjoyment of some music. I still enjoy BoC but twoism.org came close to nuking it for me. Holy hell.

  On 9/10/2016 at 4:19 AM, Candiru said:

An artist's fan base can be brutal to my enjoyment of some music. I still enjoy BoC but twoism.org came close to nuking it for me. Holy hell.

The Brothers would disapprove of you saying such things.

  On 9/10/2016 at 4:26 AM, LimpyLoo said:

 

  On 9/10/2016 at 4:19 AM, Candiru said:

An artist's fan base can be brutal to my enjoyment of some music. I still enjoy BoC but twoism.org came close to nuking it for me. Holy hell.

The Brothers would disapprove of you saying such things.

Oh no I plan on sending them a care package. Maybe they'll want to adopt me.

What do you think they did in their spare time during The Great Silence?