| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/12/2007 8:24:25 PM | I have really weird tastes in music, and since music is my life, I wonder if it can be a bit offputting. I've only dated one girl who really clicked with me when it came to music (she was the only girl ever genuinely impressed by my Joy Division box set). I've had a hard time finding girls who even tolerate stuff like Throbbing Gristle, Joy Division, the Birthday Party, or Captain Beefheart, much less actually dig it and can talk about it and chillax to it.
Are there any girls left who would be impressed by a dude who could throw the Blue Monday/The Beach double A side or some Lords of the New Church onto the turntable? Is it still 1983?
Seriously, though, do guys with very esoteric tastes in music put you off? | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/13/2007 4:03:39 AM | Throbbing Gristle, Joy Division, the Birthday Party, or Captain Beefheart. I have never even heard of these people/bands. So I can't say if I dig it or not. I guess I would have to listen to some of it.
I will try to get copy of some of it. I will let you know.
BBS. | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/13/2007 4:26:42 AM | My musical tastes very greatly...and normally I choose ''songs'' rather than bands or artists...that's because there is so much crap out there...i remember when you used to could listen to an entire album and love every song...and bands had a ''sound'' ... like U2...you just know it's them when they play their song on the radio...it's a distinct sound all their own...INXS too....and how many musical geniuses are floating around these days in the top 40? like Prince...real musicians...
Thats not saying I don't like popular music. Especially if i can dance to it, I love it. And Im seeing a lot of Middle eastern influences in some pop songs which I really love.
As long as you're not listening to country, I'm good. My tastes are all over the board otherwise. | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/13/2007 3:27:42 PM | premier2006:
I don't think age has much to do with it, since Beefheart got his start in the late 60s and the others got their starts in the late 70s. (I'm a total throwback... I'm only 23, but my favorite musical period is 77-82).
During their original 1977-1982 run, TG's only accessible album was 20 Jazz Funk Greats, but they got back together recently and have recorded a re-envisioning of Nico's Desertshore, which, from the sessions tapes I've heard, will be absolutely beautiful.
As far as Joy Division goes, maybe I need to get them hooked onto the prettier stuff like "Love Will Tear Us Apart" or something before exposing them to stuff off Unknown Pleasures or Closer.
amelodyforadrian:
I tend to take the opposite approach; I tend to go after bands whose entire catalogues I can appreciate and enjoy. If they only made a few good song, then it's a fluke and I find myself frustrated.
As for country music, I don't listen to country unless it's being sung by some grizzled black murderer that Allan Lomax dug up somewhere (y'know, like Leadbelly :D) | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/13/2007 3:39:00 PM | Sadly, where I am right now, there isn't much of a goth/punk scene. There's an emo/screamo scene and a lot of death metal/thrash and nu-metal/buttrock, but ever since the mom & pop indie record/comic store venue closed down, I haven't really seen anyone from those crowds.
Fortunately, my friend and I are trying to start a retro Industrial revival. Hopefully drunks won't break our projector or be horribly confused that a band with Death in the name has only a bass, cassio keyboard and a laptop (though we desperately want to avoid the Kraftwerk ' 4 dudes in suits on stage with laptops' live approach). | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/13/2007 4:08:59 PM | | This may be a double standard deal. I really dont care what type of music a guy listens to. However, one guy I was seeing awhile back was really put off by my music. My taste is all over the place, but my choice of the evening was Marilyn Manson. What can I say...lol...I am a bit more open-minded than that.;) | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/13/2007 4:39:16 PM | Some pretty good stuff you listen to there brother!
New Order was one of my all time fav's (for those of you who don't know, Joy Division re-formed into New Order after the suicide of their lead singer Ian Curtis, Prior to Joy Division, they were known as Warsaw).
Taste in music shouldn't be something that holds two people apart unless they live their lives for music (in witch case, yeah, I could forsee problems).
I too have odd taste in music, however, though it's odd, I still listen to a very broad spectrum of music (and appreciate it) at the same time. As long as both people in a relationship can be open-minded about what each other's likes and dislikes are things should be "Rock 'n Roll" (pardon the pun).
Let me know how the revival goes! You've got my support ;)
P.S.- Blue Monday/The Beach release date was the break of 1979/80 (couple of years off, but same era). And was (and still is) the highest selling 12" extended single of all time. | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/13/2007 4:49:38 PM | Yeah, I know. I was just throwing 1983 out there more in reference to LotNC than New Order. Hey, got a question... do I have a misprinted copy? My version has the instrumental on the side that says Blue Monday and Blue Monday on the side that says the Beach.
Also, next week I should be getting my copy of TG+ in the mail. I am excited!
*WE NEED SOME DISCIPLINE IN HERE!*  | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/13/2007 5:35:58 PM | I have 5 copies of Blue Monday (all of the original 5" floppy disc style) and 1 of them is printed as you say. I did research on it and read that it was due to a drunk employee at the pressing plant (can't verify if it's true or not) but about 5 or 10 thousand copies were printed like that.
On another note, it's great to see that there are others here on POF that have unique tastes in music! | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/13/2007 5:41:11 PM | Awesome. Thanks for looking that up for me. (I wonder if it's worth extra?)
Maybe when my band finally starts having shows and some recorded music, I'll shoot you a link. Like Throbbing Gristle, we plan on recording all of our live performances. Unlike Throbbing Gristle, we intend to keep our complete catalogue available ad infinitum. | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/13/2007 6:38:42 PM | I'd like to think a lady would be intrigued by my taste in music more than anything else. I listen to a lot of bands that most people in America (most, not all) have never heard of. Nightwish, Tristania, Sirenia, The Sins of Thy Beloved, Within Temptation, Theatre of Tragedy, Dream Theater, the list goes on and on.
I know that in general, I can't stand hip hop, most rap, and most r&b. Exceptions exist. Then again, I just listed three genres that a lot of ladies seem to really like. So my thoughts, upon dating a woman who was into this music, would either be, "I'll try yours if you'll try mine" or "You listen to yours when I'm not around, I'll listen to mine when you're not around."
Here's hoping there's some ladies out there who do like Nightwish, though, 'cause the concert in Seattle is on Halloween night, and I'd hate to go alone.  | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/17/2007 2:29:54 PM | You just never quite know how badly things can go if you casually ask a girl "So, do you like Throbbing Gristle?"
"Ladies, does this turn you on?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8klW9trVTQ | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/17/2007 2:41:45 PM | I'm old and I probably shouldn't even comment on this ... however, just the term "throbbing gristle" is bringing up a really nasty visual to me 
I hate to admit that if someone's taste in music was the polar opposite of mine it would cause a problem. And it has in the past several times. | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/18/2007 3:40:40 PM |
I'm old and I probably shouldn't even comment on this ... however, just the term "throbbing gristle" is bringing up a really nasty visual to me
Heh. I think that was kind of the idea. Dunno how appropriate bringing up being old is, though, as their lead guitarist, Christine Newby, is 55, still pretty cute and still pretty good with all those weird guitars and effects boxes Chris Carter has been setting her up with for over 30 years now. | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/25/2007 4:39:33 PM | | This is argueably on subject; if not, feel free to axe it. But my band has finished its first "studio" track as an experiment as to what we can do with the sequencing software we have and the mixing software we have. Needless to say, for live sets, the sequencing will be limited to a rhythm loop, since we've got a keyboard and pedalled to heck bass guitar for noise effects, but we think that our experiment may have been a success. Our first track is entitled "A Series of Tubular Bells", of course a play on the pivotal album and Ted Stevens' ridiculous speech (from whence the vocals were taken), and can be found on our myspace under thedeathsound. Please let me know what you think of it (there, preferably, so as not to clog this forum up with non-relationshippy type stuff). | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/26/2007 7:23:52 AM | Well this thread went off on a tangent, but just to go with it for a second -
I haven't heard of most of those groups, in fact the only one I know is New Order (and even then just True Faith, which is just a great song).
More on-topic type thing - I don't really get put off by anyone's taste in music. I know tons of people would consider my taste completely strange, but it's just individual preference (you just like what y'like).
As long as someone doesn't insist on blasting music that I loathe, or spend all their time arguing trying to convince me that their musical tastes are superior, then it doesn't affect me one way or another. It's just something you need to accept. | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/26/2007 7:40:56 AM | I am familliar with Beefheart vaguely, I read a reference to him from Pam DesBarres (who was a fan and probably more) and I know Joy Division from the clubs. The rest I don't know but I am always up for something interesting I haven't heard before.
New Order is a different story, I know them well...most of us children of the 80s would have had a hard time NOT knowing New Order, at least not Blue Monday (redone by Orgy, and recently used again by Rhianna) True Faith, and Bizarre Love Triangle.
I can name some college bands from the 80s and 90s that might confuse some people...
Then again my occupation sort of is synonymous with LOTS of music...breaking it, getting to know it, researching it, looking for the uncommon, etc. Some of it I think is crap and other stuff I think is interesting. Doesn't bother me at all. | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/26/2007 8:17:42 AM | About the only music I refuse to listen to is Opera it is much like watching paint dry..Rap..Is all French to me,can't understand a word...Heavy Metal..is out never been one for banging or screaming..unless in sex.
But anything else goes..I actually listen to music,more than I watch TV. | |
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| How badly does bizarre taste in music put you off?
Posted: 9/29/2007 11:10:09 PM | Msg 18
Personally I prefered Peter Hook's project with "Revenge" in compairson to "Monaco", but that's just me.
Not to mention "Electronic" (Bernard Sumner's side band) and "The Other Two" (Stephen Morris and wife Gillian Gilbert).
Many of the 80's "New Wave/Alternative" bands have split and made side bands, some of wich were good, some er... not so good.
I personally took to the electronic side of the 80's music... Bands like Depeche (when they were good) Blanchmange, Visage, Erasure... etc.
Now, if you want to talk about offshoots, look up Vince Clarke... He had started many great projects... (one of the founders of Depeche Mode, Erasure, Allison Moyet, Yazoo/Yaz...) the man is a musical Wiz! | |
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