brainmelter: How do others react to your music taste?

Sinternet 12.11.15	they'd find your secret merzbow tapes and you'd be ruined
Funeralopolis 12.11.15	I have a diverse enough music taste that I usually talk about the kind of music the other person is into
Dinosaur 12.11.15	I don't even try. my boss is into good music though, so I am thankful. he has told me on multiple occasions one of his top ten albums is Tragedy - Vengeance
guitarded_chuck 12.11.15	dey like u listen to this rly im like u listen to megan trainer rly
Dinosaur 12.11.15	"Oh the new Adele is amazingggg." "The new Taylor Swift single is Legit."
guitarded_chuck 12.11.15	heybae did u no adele covers th cure with this song whos the cure ew yr so000ooooo weirddddd
Mystletainn 12.11.15	People have been surprised when I told them I like hip hop, it probably has something to do with my appearance.
ArsMoriendi 12.11.15	My friends have pretty decent to great music taste (by my standards at least) I am known for being the guy who likes really weird music, but usually I get them into a lot of that stuff too (which is funny to say here since most Sputnikers probably think my taste is boring and shitty.) Outside of Sputnik, I get positive and neutral reactions almost always and even the negatives ones are never like super negative. Only people who ask are my friends and family though lol
squaaab 12.11.15	they bow down
EvoHavok 12.11.15	They easily acknowledge I know far more stuff than them, but I always find at least one common band/artist with someone. Some like/are intrigued by the way I talk about music or perceive certain elements. Others just label the fact I like metal into "dark music" instantly and for whatever reason it seems harder for some people to understand not all of it is negative lol.
Jots 12.11.15	no one asks
RadicalEd 12.11.15	johnny tellin it like it is.
zakalwe 12.11.15	Just your basic pointing, screaming invasion of the body snatchers routine but with more pant shitting.
ffs 12.11.15	with a sort of continuous, ululating high pitched screech
osmark86 12.11.15	I frankly don't know how they react, but the more unpleasantly the better.
Titan 12.11.15	others love my musical tastes.....they continuously post my 5's all over these threads as proof
Conmaniac 12.11.15	basically turns into a long conversation that involves me defining the word "emo"
Winesburgohio 12.11.15	it's kind of a running joke in my group of friends that my music taste is 'abstruse' (read: shit) BUT everyone i've played La Stazione to has sheepishly asked me to keep playing it / lend them the CD so
DoofusWainwright 12.11.15	with holy reverence
BandNewbac 12.11.15	only people i can properly talk about music to are on here. probably the same with most people on the site.
Ignimbrite 12.11.15	well i make sure to let everyone know how edgy and elite my musical taste is and they're all, "wow ryan you are so edgy and elite, teach me senpai"
Lord(e)Po)))ts 12.11.15	Ppl with good taste have good reactions and Ppl with bad taste have bad ones.
ApocalypticCows 12.11.15	Can you even understand what they're saying?
LotusFlower 12.11.15	my friends usually dig most of the stuff I like, unless it's "very weird" or metal. they're cool.
CalculatingInfinity 12.11.15	They just shrug it off mainly, meh.
Sinternet 12.11.15	I have a couple of friends with similar tastes ie trip-hop/electronic/indie pop/alt rock/shoegaze so they're fun but I'm also friends with two twin brothers who only listen to 2007-era NME-core indie rock so and they're pretty bigheaded about it
porcupinetheater 12.11.15	They turn away in disgust because I don't jam enough musique concrete
Calc 12.11.15	i don't share anymore.
Trebor. 12.12.15	implying any of us interact with anyone in real life
magicuba 12.12.15	I can only talk about it with few friends, but most consider my taste weird or just addressed towards unknown bands I guess. Most people do not even know what post rock is. Imagine trying to explain what is post black metal, screamo or bands like Ulver. You look like the hipster of the situtation. Wait actually maybe we all are very hipster
Valkyrion 12.12.15	I tend to talk common ground but there usually isn't much since i'm not too much into rock music
Aftertheascension 12.12.15	"I listen to metal, mainly extreme metal." "Wow you must be a goatslaying satanist that cuts his arms"
SharkTooth 12.12.15	Often when I'm handed the aux cord I go out of my way to play the stupidest thing I could find https://m.soundcloud.com/klutch-official/poketrap Something like this Their reactions are always gold
ScuroFantasma 12.12.15	I've got about 3 good friends who have a similar taste to me so within that group we shoot each other recs and stuff. It's cool because one of them is super into thrash, ones into metalcore and the other is basically absorbing everything since he's pretty new to it all. But we all have enough overlap in taste. It's good, keeps things interesting.
onionbubs 12.12.15	Not well lol. We like some similar stuff. We all dig green day yellowcard Billy talent and rise against, but anything like tool or nin or the cure or Godspeed or anything like that they don't like.
Funeralopolis 12.12.15	I have a friend irl who is patrician as fuck it is pretty sweet
Deathconscious 12.12.15	ive had some confused/"what is this, this is weird" kind of reactions from people i dont know very well. for example, i was having a bonfire and i was playing Dinosaur Jr. and this one guy who i dont really hang out with was there and he said "who is this? it sounds like...sad punk music or something." however, my friends know me as the one with a lot of knowledge on music, and they usually have me hooking my ipod up to the speakers and deciding what gets played. most of my friends have decent taste, and they can appreciate music thats "different". never had an overtly negative reaction from anyone though.
Sevengill 12.12.15	I don't have taste in music for anyone to react to.
wtferrothorn 12.12.15	Usually when I show my friends some of the stuff I dig, I ususally show them more tame stuff. Janelle Monae, Neon Indian, and D'Angelo seemed to get the best reception. They really hated Everything Everything tho lol
Flugmorph 12.12.15	they are confused and/or disgusted
TheGreatQ 12.12.15	Usually they call it weird or shit.
MO 12.12.15	I work in an office and everyone knows I drum for a dm band. It's funny
RogueNine 12.12.15	Most of them still refer to it as "screamo" I'm pretty sure.
Flugmorph 12.12.15	They cower in fear
oisincoleman64 12.12.15	Casual music listeners: Turn that shit off Non-casuals (for lack of a better word): Turn that shit off I can't win
user 12.12.15	"cool"
Koris 12.12.15	"I have a diverse enough music taste that I usually talk about the kind of music the other person is into" Same here
JokineAugustus 12.12.15	I ask people if they've heard of The National. They haven't
UpwardSpiral 12.12.15	Most of my friends only listen to dadrock, house or whatever is played on the radio. They don't want to discover actual good music. They like some Fugazi songs, but think other post-hardcore (they don't know the term obviously) with more screaming is weird. It is hard to not act like a hipster/Elitist among them.
Zig 12.12.15	They say: "Yeah, whatever."
alienobserver 12.12.15	what the fuck
rabidfish 12.12.15	poorly disguised cringing [2]
magicuba 12.12.15	no seriously I was playing the antlers - hospice and my flatmate was: wtf is this shit it sounds like farts and I lost all hope... He could stand parkway drive though, it's weird
Asdfp277 02.02.16	Kids React to My Music Taste
LotusFlower 02.02.16	youll have to give me 60% of all your profits, first.
Flugmorph 02.02.16	fuck em clover fuck em dry
Tunaboy45 02.02.16	They don't, I sue them before they get the chance
LotusFlower 02.02.16	Fuck them dry? for shame flug. can't you see im just trying to establish a global community that the future generations will be able to look back on?
Tunaboy45 02.02.16	I'll help you make your time capsule
LotusFlower 02.02.16	Alright Tunaboy, just join on my website http://fuckyouinternet.com/getbuttfucked to become an official member of my community.
Tunaboy45 02.02.16	What happens if I decide to make a music taste reaction video without joining your super cool community?
theNateman 02.02.16	I usually just talk music with my band. My girlfriend is so closed to anything that isn't dance or electronica based it's impossible to get her into anything else
Flugmorph 02.02.16	#getbuttfucked
Cryptkeeper 02.02.16	People expect the thrash/death metal due to my clothing, but often don't expect the jazz/trip-hop/rap/krautrock etc.
MyNameIsPencil 02.02.16	"oh pencil, you have such an invigorating taste in music, so exquisite in fact that now I am going to allow you to stick your genitals into my genitals in the act that is called "sex"".
Torontonian 02.02.16	most people don't actually care.
MyNameIsPencil 02.02.16	honestly yeah
Sevengill 02.02.16	they usually hold up crosses or just run away
Spacesh1p 02.02.16	turn 360 degrees and walk away
InFlamesWeThrash666 02.02.16	They mostly run away screaming "omg burn this satanic motherfucker before he sacrifices us to Satan"...kinda cool
InFlamesWeThrash666 02.02.16	I KNOW RIGHT
Caelum 02.02.16	they usually tell me of how handsome i am hehehehehehehhe
Flugmorph 02.02.16	so they walk right into you amirite.
Caelum 02.02.16	heyooooo yessss hhhhhahaha of course
MyNameIsPencil 02.02.16	if I died tomorrow nobody would even notice
Flugmorph 02.02.16	the cow is real
Spacesh1p 02.02.16	Nah Flug they turn 360 degrees and walk away, not towards you.
Flugmorph 02.02.16	ahem...
Trebor. 02.02.16	They look at me funny
Cryptkeeper 02.02.16	'turn 360 degrees and walk away' Are you meme-ing?
Spacesh1p 02.02.16	Me? I've never seen a meme in my life, much less a dank meme.
Funeralopolis 02.03.16	I usually just ask people what they like and try to find common ground. It's extremely rare to find another person who listens to metal irl and if they do their taste usually ends at slipknot, pantera, lamb of god and children of bodom otherwise it's all just 'screamo' and 'noise'.
zakalwe 02.03.16	It's not specified by taste, just a love of music. It really is my passion. I'm probabaly autistic or summink.
guitarded_chuck 02.03.16	everyday people are probably a bit shocked with how varied my music taste is and how it is so important to me since im not in a band or anything anymore
Sowing 02.03.16	I get bewilderment and general concern that I can listen to Swans or Converge and then be up for a cathartic round of Taylor Swift
smaugman 02.03.16	seems like people nowadays don't really care that much about bands, it's more about what's trending
guitarded_chuck 02.03.16	lol ye, perhaps most shocking to people is the diverse range of my taste i will bounce around my apartment in my boxers bumpin rae shrummurd one minute then turn up my headphones to some paysage dhiver the next second
guitarded_chuck 02.03.16	the ironic thing is what is more shocking is how people are closed minded to their music and cozy up to their select artists and genres in a closed off box
smaugman 02.03.16	me and a friend's family began discussing music for some reason, and I remember his mother saying "heavy metal is just horrible" and I just sat there and lol'd hard
guitarded_chuck 02.03.16	if it aint on the pop station it aint trve ya dig
Cryptkeeper 02.03.16	Funeral, what's wrong with CoB?
tempest-- 02.03.16	they cant otherwise finebros will sue em
Cryptkeeper 02.03.16	Quality meme-ing in this thread
ChoccyPhilly 02.03.16	Mad. and I jam music all the time but everyone else around us just calls us 'edgy' and makes mockeries of BUILD UPS and shit. But it's all for #BANTER
Calc 02.03.16	100% who cares
Cryptkeeper 02.03.16	It's just a prank
brainmelter 06.02.16	if it aint on the pop station it aint trve ya dig[2]
Parallels 06.02.16	"wow ok so you're a hipster" or "you should give me a some stuff to listen to"
Parallels 06.02.16	I've also heard "no, you have anime soundtracks, you're a weeaboo"
brainmelter 06.02.16	ppl are so judgmental aren't they?
Cryptkeeper 06.02.16	I mean you are, so
Pheromone 06.02.16	yuki prismic whos that on the cover
onionbubs 06.02.16	well i recently sent my friend a link to a deftones track and she hasnt talked to me since. so not well lol
CalculatingInfinity 06.02.16	Idk why Onion but that sounded so sad and funny to me.
Spacesh1p 06.02.16	I laughed heartily as well.
torts 06.02.16	I just got everyone that talks to me into death grips , other than that I get shit on by everyone except my friend who's in my super cool hardcore band
Enzx 06.02.16	Those with good taste usually would be keen to prolong the conversation when talking about music. Those with shit taste just diss me.
guitarded_chuck 06.02.16	they drop their panties
Spacesh1p 06.02.16	"I just got everyone that talks to me into death grips" Most compelling evidence yet that you aren't lying when you say you're 16, torts.
trve 06.02.16	helping a band a lot with merch on tour and they frequently do plug.dj-esque listening rounds in their tour bus, reactions are usually positive, except for maybe some of the weirder 70s prog or motW also some people are into old school thrash at the place where i live and i got them into vektor and some other proggy/tech thrash as for most people though, they either say "oh you're into that satan screamo shit" or dont care at all
Funeralopolis 06.02.16	People seem to be surprisingly cool with my love for screaming music even if they don't dig it themselves.
UpwardSpiral 06.02.16	I wonder what my dad would think of me if he would ever hear my 'screaming music'. He might send me to a mental institution.
parksungjoon 06.02.16	@upwardspiral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ ?
guitarded_chuck 06.02.16	most people appreciate screaming music in the right environment i mean if im taking a cute girl for a drive through the city im not going to blast calculating infinity
UpwardSpiral 06.02.16	@parksungjoon Nice clip lol @chuck Maybe I know the wrong people then. What would be the right environment?
magicuba 06.02.16	a satanic orgy
MarsKid 06.02.16	Most people think I'm in a Satanic cult, so there's that.
brainmelter 06.02.16	if my music is even a slightly a fast tempo with some kind of shouts or yells my mom calls it devil music. i blame slayer
onionbubs 06.02.16	my parents are usually cool with my music taste, but one time they said they were concerned saying my music taste was devil worship sounding. it was a thursday song.
runaways 06.02.16	People usually say I have a good music taste, which I guess means close to theirs? Most people I know listen to like, indie pop and alt. rock including some shitty/average bands like Cage the Elephant or Bastille or whatever. Which I guess is better than Meghan Trainor but it's not my cup of tea. I have a pretty diverse music taste so it's easy to find people who like stuff like Twenty One Pilots or The 1975 and even, like, Brand New but basically impossible to find someone who likes The Hotelier or The Mountain Goats. I don't usually get hate on my music taste but if I do it's usually by people who only basically listen to metal, which is fine because metal is cool but it's not usually my thing. I need to listen to more hip hop because obviously that's what's trendy around my social circle and not just the bad kind.
Funeralopolis 06.02.16	My mom actually digs some instrumental death metal stuff but she just doesn't like the vocals. When I tell people I love metal/ do metal vocals they're usually pretty surprised because I (what a shocker) have nothing in common with the standard metal stereotypes, so I think then people are much more likely to accept it. I'm pretty cheery, easy going irl I just like to jam death metal and shit.
parksungjoon 06.02.16	^ this helps a lot yeah
Sinternet 06.03.16	itt metalheads annoyed their parents just don't get them
iloveyouall 06.03.16	i wonder what my parents would think of my music taste now...
Sinternet 06.03.16	'uhh son i think your cd player's broken'
iloveyouall 06.03.16	they're not that conservative tho. they'd probably have more trouble with chief keef than p.e./noise stuff tbh.
Asdfp277 06.03.16	they climax
Idleness 06.03.16	oops
magicuba 06.03.16	yea honestly if you do try to force your taste on others, then you do not receive hate. Ofc if you claim that you know what real music is ( and it might be as well true) or force acquaintances to listen to experimental noise than you get the negative reactions, and it is understandable.
brainmelter 06.04.16	i know what music genres are so my friends all think im an elitist. or a 'music hipster' because I avidly listen to more than one kind of musica
iloveyouall 06.04.16	I was in the whip wit mah gang blastin some OG straight-outta-chiraq drill bangaz when the iPod shuffle threw on some harsh noise. there was a moment of awkward silence, but when the feedback kicked in, we were back to jammin once again. was a good day.
AlexKzillion 06.04.16	I try to completely avert from talking about music irl unless it's with my dad or my close friends, since they know I listen to a shit ton of different music and have a fairly different taste from them. I feel like an elitist asshole when everybody is hyping up some shit like Chance's Coloring Book and I just thought it was average af and can't control myself from forcing that opinion on everybody.
Calc 06.04.16	"I just thought it was average af and can't control myself from forcing that opinion on everybody." well here's the reason you FEEL like an asshole, its cuz you apparently act like one.
Calc 06.04.16	and people hate my taste btw, which they only learn from being in the car with me. the one song I play that people have universally liked is All Yours by Submotion Orchestra.
brainmelter 06.04.16	LOL 'There was a moment of awkward silence'
leatherrebel 06.04.16	They get on their knees and worship Satan
zaruyache 06.04.16	only plebs "worship" Satan, for Satan is not a god demanding of worship
Keyblade 06.04.16	"I was in the whip wit mah gang blastin some OG straight-outta-chiraq drill bangaz" lmfao
brainmelter 06.08.16	worshiping Satan is edgy
iloveyouall 06.08.16	tfw your ipod decides to throw a switch-up to some sine waves mid-fuck
brainmelter 06.08.16	i bet you busted the fattest nut when the sine waves began. my ipod is absolutely terrible on shuffle while getting intimate with girls
iloveyouall 06.08.16	i won't lie, i loved it, but yeah, mixed reception. and i've decided to just make my own playlists for this shit from now on.
BandNewbac 06.08.16	i have a playlist for that exact reason lmao
onionbubs 06.08.16	my dad said the music i was listening to was morbid sounding it was freakin sea change by beck
Flugmorph 06.08.16	lol
SCREAM! 06.08.16	Admittedly I was that annoying kid in high school who thought metal was better than everything and tried to push it on everyone and even now I haven't managed to completely shake that impression (doesn't help that I still listen to like 80% metal but still, I've branched off quite a bit from the 100% it used to be haha) Like, I'll be driving and put on Florence and the Machine or something and they'll be like "what you listen to this stuff???"
theBoneyKing 06.08.16	Mostly people think I have really strange obscure taste when in reality I listen to some of the most "mainstream" of "underground" music.
Idleness 06.08.16	I try to completely avert from talking about music irl [2]
Altmer 06.08.16	they're more focused on other parts of my personality
JWT155 06.08.16	Yeah the older you ge the more I keep most strong opinions about anything, whether it's music, movies, politics, to myself and only really delve into these topics when it's with someone who's truly interested. Most people don't know 90% of the music I like and listen to.
worthlessscab 06.08.16	they are in awe
Asdfp277 06.08.16	they succ me d
JokineAugustus 06.09.16	I don't really share it that much anymore because everyone I know just listens to top 100 music from the radio
iloveyouall 06.09.16	just grace their ears with sine wobbles and contact mic abuse and watch as they suck your dong. you can trust me on this one.
brainmelter 06.09.16	yea guys appearances don't matter, it's just about what you listen to. it's what you hear
torts 06.09.16	lmao
Ocean of Noise 06.02.17	Honestly I don't generally talk about the music I like with other people... I mostly just let other people drive the conversation generally. But then sometimes I find people with similar taste to me and we have a decent convo
Demon of the Fall 06.02.17	I don't share much with the majority of people, guess it never really comes up in conversation which means it's probably just not a strong interest of theirs or I'm terrible at conversing (almost definitely the 2nd one, at least in part). I've noticed people that know me well (even my mum or wife) are often surprised when I play certain types of music & they seem to have pigeonholed my taste into 'angry, shouty, heavy' or 'weird'... my wife uses the term 'bleeps & blops' as well to describe some electronic stuff she's heard of mine. Without fail I can't play anything approaching the pop-ier side of the musical spectrum & avoid my mum proclaiming it doesn't sound like something 'I'd usually listen to'. Honestly, I very rarely meet people who know the music I'm into (or at least it isn't discussed) & the people closest to me don't even really understand my taste. My mum is cool though, she likes some good music. Mostly, music is a very personal but quite lonely outlet for me.
parksungjoon 12.11.20	they dont
bloc 12.11.20	Everything Demo said [2]
parksungjoon 12.11.20	oh i actually posted in this thread before lmao
gschwen 12.11.20	[3]
Ecnalzen 12.11.20	Honestly, I very rarely meet people who know the music I'm into (or at least it isn't discussed) & the people closest to me don't even really understand my taste [2] This is similar for me. When I do get in conversation musically with another person I am unsure of what they listen to and they ask me what I like, I usually just name off the more well known stuff I dig Chevelle is typically one of the first things out of my mouth since they have been around for a while and most ppl at least know them from their earlier work
Sinternet 12.11.20	damn you guys need better friends
parksungjoon 12.11.20	you think sputters got friends? lmao
gschwen 12.11.20	Despite my appreciation for music and time spent listening, studying, experiencing and being an all-around fanboy, I'm never consulted for anything regarding music. It's my secret wish that I was utilized as a source of knowledge for others, but music is such a personal experience that I think most people are very happy with their relationship to it. Just wanted to complain. Thx
LeddSledd 12.11.20	usually they don't [2] but the two people i feel confident sharing music with are one of my friends who's an avid musician/prog nerd and my dad who helped get me into music exploration to begin with. and even with them I've gotten a feel for what they're both into, so a lot of my jamz are private
bloc 12.11.20	I've been here for 12 years bro, all my friends have been digitized.
LeddSledd 12.11.20	besides, I frequent this site enough to exercise my love for weird music with people who actually care about it if someone asks what I'm into I'll be honest but ain't about to throw Converge into a hangout playlist
BenThatsMyJamin 12.11.20	"basically turns into a long conversation that involves me defining the word "emo" "Most of them still refer to it as "screamo" I'm pretty sure." Both of these lol
BenThatsMyJamin 12.11.20	"Mostly, music is a very personal but quite lonely outlet for me." [2] hard apart from one friend And sometimes that gets me down but I think secretly I kinda like it that way
Thalassic 12.11.20	Yeah music - particularly the heavier rock I'm into - is a personal outlet for me as well. Most of my friends are either into hiphop or EDM, but in a superficial way. Doesn't bother me though, I've been to plenty of clubs and hip hop gigs as well and I don't really look very "m/" at all.
Sinternet 12.11.20	me and my homies jam out every other night
heck 12.11.20	men tremble in my presence and women throw themselves at me
zakalwe 12.11.20	I see I’ve commented before but: I have two circles of mates. I’m lucky in that I still knock about with the lads I grew up with who I’ve bent their ears for 30 odd years about music. They’re happy to indulge me god bless ‘em and we have shared experiences. Then there’s me work mates who the majority don’t get it and think I talk absolute bollocks. Then there’s the wife who thinks half me music is shite and the other half quality.