Armadillos12: Trying to Get Into Music

Drifter 05.21.18	This is a toughy
Drifter 05.21.18	How do you mean sugary with RTD? It's pretty raw and low budget
kevbogz 05.21.18	I can't help a meme that thinks Kind of Blue is average.
Hawks 05.21.18	Wtf
TheSonomaDude 05.21.18	im a bit basic but Metallica is honestly the band that got me into caring about music. I fell in love with them during middle school and listening to them made me suddenly start dreaming about being on stage with a rock band, touring the world and shit. I picked up the guitar, bass, and vocal lessons all because of them, and I've since branched out into other metal bands and entirely different genres in general. Kill Em All is a weird Metallica album to start off with unless you're already a metalhead...ik it's their debut but that album is the least mainstream and accessible thing they ever did, it was an underground thrash metal album when it first came out.
Drifter 05.21.18	Who is your sput friend I wanna talk to him
Allergist 05.21.18	You may like Gorguts - Obscura
Mentasm 05.21.18	https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140306130411.htm I'd suggest you should stop trying to like music, leave the site and move on with your other hobbies.
mindleviticus 05.21.18	you should check out merzbow, you'd like that
Drifter 05.21.18	Check out 2Pac - Me Against The World and if So Many Tears pr Lord Knows or half the other shit on it doesn't make you cry you have no soul
Dewinged 05.21.18	This is a serious story: A friend of mine is not into music at all and he is kind of a strange guy, very introverted, likes to be alone, that kind of stuff. It took years but the only thing I could get him into it was extreme metal. The faster, the better.
L4titudes 05.21.18	I've heard stories of these folk
Drifter 05.21.18	They scare me
TheSonomaDude 05.21.18	i have a friend who is like you, he's picky as hell and 2.5/5's everything but he has wisened up to music much better in recent years. I talked him into getting a sput account, he never uses it but here are his 5's: https://www.sputnikmusic.com/uservote.php?memberid=1112852
Frippertronics 05.21.18	nice
verdant 05.21.18	check brainbombs, check power electronics
Conmaniac 05.21.18	you ever heard of anti-music? the residents? etc?
Tyler. 05.21.18	try checking out sweet trip - V:D:C
hal1ax 05.21.18	check grotesque
hal1ax 05.21.18	and this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F24sYd9ZaM
Avagantamos 05.21.18	boards of canada - music has the right to children for me checking that album is what triggered my obsession with idm
brainmelter 05.21.18	go listen to some alley catss
Astral Abortis 05.21.18	check grotesque
FacelessMan 05.21.18	idk man listen to whatever you like
Armadillos12 05.21.18	Wow, I've only been gone for a few hours and this has gotten a lot of results. I really do wanna say thanks to everyone recommending stuff. I will try to listen to each of the things you are suggesting to check and post my feedback of it in a list later. To address other comments, hey Drifter, thank you for being so active. It is a tough situation and I'm glad people are interested in helping. I meant sugary in that its like eating sugar. Its just not appetizing by itself when you can just eat an actual meal. Probably a bad example but its what I thought of. My friend also told me not to mention him which is why I wont post my Rate Your Music account either, he doesn't comment or make lists here though, only rates music. I'm sorry kevbogz for thinking its average, but what I mean is that it isn't bad, so that is a good thing in my eyes. TheSonamaDude thank you for the indepth response, Metallica is very interesting in their widespread appeal, and I also didn't find myself disliking it. I will perhaps give it another shot, maybe it is a gateway to my liking that sort of music (I only heard it once). Mentasm, thats an interesting article but I sorta fear it. I don't want that to be me. I think its a radical thing to dismiss someone from your community when they are trying to learn, but I'm sure you have good intentions. Dewinged, I'm actually not introverted at all. I'm very outgoing and active which is why I want to like music, to allow me to better appreciate those sort of group activities. Like I said I will try Metallica again but most of my friends dont like metal. FacelessMan, that would mean don't listen to music at the moment!
Dewinged 05.21.18	You know, after reading your last comment I would just explore more of the music your friends like, and if that really doesn't work... I would change friends haha
Astral Abortis 05.21.18	Seems like your friends are a bunch of p4k normies, I'd say start with weird underground shit bc normal music aint cutting it for you
SitruK6 05.21.18	Morbid Angel - Covenant (not their best but it is the one that got me into them) see if this does anything for you
Sinternet 05.21.18	I have an old acquaintance from secondary school/college who was exactly like this and it was really hard to understand from an outside perspective, but I think it's great that you're are trying to do something about it! I'll give a list of a few of my favourite albums if you want to check them out - but when you say you find things boring is it just that they are monotonous to you? Also what other kinds of art do you enjoy, if you like poetry and literature you may enjoy more lyrical rap or albums that tell a story. Anyway check these: Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch Fear Before the March of Flames - The Always Open Mouth mewithoutYou - Catch For Us the Foxes Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa Big Pun - Capital Punishment Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper that should cover a wide variety of genres and styles so you might find something you like out of that
SitruK6 05.21.18	Good recs Sint I was just listening to Teethed Glory and Injury yesterday. still one of the best albums ever
InFlamesWeThrash666 05.21.18	check Tool
bgillesp 05.21.18	Mr. Bungle- California, you need a wild ride that is a fun and enjoyable listen it seems and that is your ticket.
butcherboy 05.21.18	introverted people who don't listen to music are like Daria with the only redeeming part of her extracted.. to summarize, i'm in love with you, let's get married and have a music-less ceremony..
Calc 05.21.18	you're gonna fit in just fine here
Piglet 05.21.18	i second Brainbombs, you need to listen to Urge To Kill. it'll change everything (:
IronGiant 05.21.18	here are albums I think are so immersive they transcend "music" and become aural cinematic experiences. Sounds esoteric and maybe it is, but I'm thinking maybe a lot of what you're experiencing has to do with how your framing the experience. Do you enjoy a great movie? If so, thinking of the album as a movie, imagining scenes and pictures in your head that build and feed off the music may lead to more positive, or at the very least, more interesting, results. for that reason, I'm gonna recommend mainly instrumental music, aside from one compilation of some of the grittiest, sleaziest, catchiest 60s garage punk and pop I've heard, which may offer some reprieve since you can shuffle through a whole bunch of artists under one or a few genres and see what sticks. Anyway, here you go and best of luck: Blade Runner Soundtrack (2002 ESPER EDITION ONLY) Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper [2] James Ferraro - Live at Primavera Sound Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. I The Avalanches - Since I Left You Various Artists - Trash Box: Wild Psychotic Garage Punk !!!
DoofusWainwright 05.21.18	Amusing alt account