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    Posted: September 21 2010 at 18:53

Yeah, that so called PERSONAL TASTE  …  Years ago, when reading for the first time discussions on prog websites, I was very surprised how different we, progheads, are. As for everyone’s personal taste, literally everything is possible : a band, adored by one listener, is totally uninteresting for another one.

 
No, I didn’t expect every proghead would love VdGG, King Crimson and Gentle Giant like I do, but nevertheless : doesn’t exist something like „musical beauty“, at least to a certain extent independent to our personal taste?
 
These thoughts lead me to a lot of questions :

What does it actually means : your personal musical taste?

Is it just a list of your favourite bands without corelation among listed ones?

Or do you have some specific styles, qualities, features or elements of some piece of music, which you consider as necessary to fit to your personal taste?

How many bands or albums do you consider as fitting to your musical taste almost without reserves? Are they from one single subgenre or from more ones?

 

As for me, probably two the most important aspects of my personal taste, two of many, are :

1)     mood

I could undersign S.Wilson’s (of PT) words : „ Only sad music makes me happy.“ Dark, sad, haunting mood, that’s exactly what I love. Happy, romantic, joyful music has never any emotional impact to my musical cells, as well as technical music „without any mood“ is really not for me

 

2)     adventure

my personal taste says : music must be to a certain extent adventurous and challenging. Catchy and easy listening songs or parts of songs usually quickly kill my enjoyment, I simply want to hear something more than radio friendly melodies spiced by progressive instrumentation

 
Many thanks for your thoughts. 


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Your own personal taste depends on your own personal taste.
It's all a very subjective matter. Personal taste can be A for someone, B for some other person, or C for any other person.

For me, personal taste is the group of elements that define what music you prefer listening to.

Personally, i like:
dark and/or heavy deep ambient scapes (Agalloch, Porcupine Tree)
agressive technical instrumental sections (Dream Theater, Ayreon, Rush)
melodic/epic crescendos or endings. (Pink Floyd, Octavarium)
viking, gallop or "crunchy" heavy riffs (Ensiferum, Circus Maximus)
extended improvisational ambient pieces, to leave playing like functional/background music (Tales from topographic oceans, Reverend Bizarre, GY!BE)
and general metal, prog metal, heavy prog and ambient prog.

Music is too big to be defined in a few lines. We've had HUNDREDS of years of music, and we just can't get to know what does musical taste mean, yet.
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Points: 64351 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2010 at 19:39
 ^ good answer.. I tried to write a response but it just got too complex and contradictory

suffice to say if it's good it's good
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What's interesting is that sometimes personal taste is a matter of timing, be it trying new things or what you feel in the mood to listen to at any particular time.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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I like stuff. Do you like stuff?
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Points: 29625 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2010 at 20:04
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

I like stuff. Do you like stuff?

I hate stuff, I prefer things. Wink
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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I like things that I like, and stuff that I like, but not things or stuff I don't like.  
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

I like stuff. Do you like stuff?

I hate stuff, I prefer things. Wink


How peculiar.
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Points: 29625 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2010 at 20:27
I think this thread has too much salt. LOLRawks

Maybe a little more Jon?


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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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My personal taste is very simple: progressive (death) metal and hardcore hip hop. Almost anything from these genres will appeal to me.

I also listen to other genres. I love some dream pop and folk, but there's more dream pop that I don't like than dream pop that I like. Same with folk.

"Mood" and "adventure" are very nice words.  :)



By the way I don't believe anything Steven Wilson says. He said "I don't think we are a progressive rock band. I think we're just a rock band."  He said "happy, romantic music is really not for me" but the Deadwing album is full of happy and romantic music (IMO).



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I actually was wondering something similar the other day, and found a very good definition in Wikipedia, treating taste as a perception of which are acceptable ways of communicating and which aren't. Just read it for yourself, it's long:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste_%28sociology%29

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spicy food is good too
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Points: 540 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2010 at 21:49
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

spicy food is good too


Agreed

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love the spicy food
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Going on with the more serious approach to the topic, i think such thing as "good music" does exist and it is based on it's humanistic content so to say, can't find a better word than that, the more you can say at the same time the better and that's why complexity plays a role for some people, as it is harder though not impossible to make a strong statement with a 2 minute pop song than in a 20 minute epic. The problem is, for the latter, you need a very peculiar personality, to be willing to take the trouble of listening and understandig the whole thing, that's where taste starts playing a role. People want to see a reflection of their own thoughts, ideas and emotions in their music, some people are just not intered and are happy to perfom their daily catarsis with easy listen, some want to do so with a 3 chord punk song and some seek it in blues guitar solos.

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Points: 5093 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2010 at 23:59
It depends on the psychotropic substances that are present on your blood at that particular moment...
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 22 2010 at 00:14
Originally posted by Revan Revan wrote:

Going on with the more serious approach to the topic, i think such thing as "good music" does exist and it is based on it's humanistic content so to say, can't find a better word than that, the more you can say at the same time the better
How do you define this? What is communication in music?
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Points: 17497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 22 2010 at 00:41
If ur in a good mood then all music is good, if ur in a bad mood then all music sucks.....Its up to ur own personal taste as to whether u are in a good mood or bad mood.
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Points: 540 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 22 2010 at 00:47
Well i would parallel it (if such a verb exists) with an answering machine, a one way message that leaves an impression to the listener, depending on his interpretation of the message.

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Originally posted by Revan Revan wrote:

Well i would parallel it (if such a verb exists) with an answering machine, a one way message that leaves an impression to the listener, depending on his interpretation of the message.
An answering machine uses words and only tells you to leave a message, this analogy makes no sense.
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