When people talk s**t about your music..

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How often does this happen to you? Rarely ever for me but when it does it makes upset because more than half the time they say stuff that doesnt make any sense at all. All they had to say was "Im not into that genre". An example is when my dad said "...they dont even use real words". Did it ever occur to him that they were from a different country?? Americans like him have their heads shoved so far up their asses its sickening. If its not english, then its not a real language..... Yeah... Right.
In highschool I was also called the "black metal kid", among names that were actually offensive, but I liked that title. Maybe they didnt know that.

I would just ignore their comments. Then again, that has never happened to me.

Tim

You like Rammstein?

My ex talked about my music choices in a derogatory manner. What I didn't understand was why he devoted so much interest to disliking something. Don't like it? Let it go.

As for my own reaction to it, eh. I've been judged for far worse than my choice in music. I was going to start a thread on favorite music, but I figured one already existed somewhere on here.

In middle school I worshiped "Du Hass.."

Sadly 90% of the population is clueless and ignorant about foreign / underground music / art / film or anything outside of their little mainstream worldviews.

Personally I'm fascinated by non-english singing - and much prefer bands to sing in their native tongue if they aren't English.

The Icelandic band Sigur Ros even invented their own language to sing in - I love that.

Anyway don't listen to the naysayers - just recognize their ignorance and carry on doing your thing.

Then you would like Ruins/Koenji Hyakkei.

At the same time, when I was working at a gas station back in 1999, there was a female who complained to the manager about the music that I was listening to. It had no profanity in it, it was simply experimental music. --Who needs people like this?

My son, who is 16, has developed a fondness for Japanese pop music (we are American, not of Japanese ancestry, have no Japanese neighbors--he just picked up his interest, I think, from Japanese cartoons). He taught himself to play some Japanese pop piano pieces, and he sings along, in Japanese, although he has never studied this language, and I don't think that he knows the meaning of the words. It is nice music--I like it.

It's stupid..I know...but everytime someone insults one of my tastes in music I feel like I have been personally insulted. Usually I just resolve that the dissenting view is tasteless, though I realize how good something is really can't be established, since it's a matter of opinion.

Oh cool - Ruins is one band I've meant to check out for a long time - never got around to it. I didn't know they used an invented language. Reading up on Ruins and Koneji Hyakkei just now I noticed mention of a Magma influence. Another interesting band using a made-up language. Which reminds me I should listen to Magma again...

And yeah I don't get why people are so adverse to experimental music. People fear what they don't understand I suppose. Perhaps it sounds "dangerous" to them. I remember people in college calling me a psycho for listening to noise music (like Skullflower / Total).

my main experience with this was a friend who made fun of the music i listened to cus it was pointless and random ........... now psycroptic are one of his favorite bands

although some of my friends still pull the "classically trained" card that pisses me off no end

The actual definition of experimental "noise" is the absence of music. Originally the genre wasnt supposed to include any kind of melody or rythem. Dunno about the stuff they make these days though. I really like the material from Japan too, if I remember correctly they were the first to come up with noise. Ive heard other good projects as well but Im not sure what country theyre from.

I suppose my saying "noise music" is a bit paradoxical yes. Though the band Skullflower I mentioned does have a fair amount of rhythm and very simple melody mixed with their noise - so its not pure noise per se. They were active in the 80's, 90's and recently reformed.

Probably the first noise artist is technically Luigi Russolo an Italian artist / composer active with the Futurist movement in the early 20th century. He was the first to invent noise-creating machines, called "Intonarumori", specifically to be played as a form of sound art. In 1913 he wrote a manifesto called "the Art of Noises". Also there were other composers after him who incorporated noise into their music, the earliest explorations into electronic music, and noise can be found appearing in underground music of the 60's / 70's (see Velvet Underground, psychedelia, krautrock and early industrial scene) long before the Japanese noise scene appeared. But yeah the Japanese noise artists really pushed the boundaries and explore pure noise to an unheard of degree.

Noise is something of an on-going obsession of mine...

Being that Cannibal Corpse is my favorite band, I frequently encounter criticism of the band and criticism of death metal in general.

I usually take a "musicians aspect" on my appreciation for the music... In other words, I really couldn't give a crap about the vocals, (Even though I've gotten to the point where I can immediately tell what George Fisher is saying.) but I'm more into the technicality and complexity of the guitar work and drumming.

I usually end up persuading the individual to listen to "From Skin To Liquid", "Five Nails Through The Neck", or "Pulverized". (I personally find those 3 songs to be their most complex, although the first one is an instrumental.)

impressive .............. haha apparently he is obsessed with wow

i really don't know why everyone i meet hates CC ...... none of my friends seem to grasp 'i don't usually listen to vocals'

People talk s**t about the music I listen to all the time and I ignore it. I guess that's what I get for being the only person in a group of so-called indie kids who likes anything that doesn't sound exactly like Arctic Monkeys.

People talk s**t about my taste in music all the time.

I just say back:

"Hey, I got my s**t music, you got your s**t music "