Anyone else not a music person?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So I was reading this thread about what musical period defined you, and came to realize that I would have to seriously think about what albums were out at that time.

You see, I’m just not a music person, at least not in the same way as many others I know. I listen to the radio, and I have maybe a DVD worth of MP3s, along with maybe a score of CDs that I’ve accumulated over the years. I can’t say that music has ever really “spoken to me” or that I’ve really identified with it. About all I can say is that after hearing “Eleanor Rigby” and “Dust in the Wind” on the radio as a 4 year old, I thought they were the saddest songs ever, and haven’t been terribly fond of either since.

I’ve never had a “music crush” on any bands and just generally look at music as something that’s playing while I’m driving or otherwise occupied.

Anyone else like this? Or is everyone else like me deeply into music?

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Me. I like music, some of it quite a lot, and I have a decent collection on my little Walkman to listen while driving or toodling around the house by myself. But it’s not anything I’m any way passionate about–no band crushes, no desire to go to concerts, no nattering on about this or that album or artist. Which makes me a hell of an outsider in our social circle, really. My husband, pretty much all his friends, and most of our mutual friends are big into all that stuff. They can go on and on and on about that stuff for hours, and they tend to get all butthurt when I never want to sit in loud crowded smoky bars doing this kind of stuff.

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I’m not passionate about it. The only times I get really interested in it are when I’m single… as soon as there’s a fresh squeeze, I just couldn’t care anymore.

I actually dislike having it playing in the background. I have trouble tracking speech anyway, and if someone’s trying to talk to me over music, it’s really hard for me to understand them. I can’t read or concentrate on work while listening to music.

Also, my mother has to constantly have background noise. In her house, the TV or the stereo is constantly on. It drove me crazy, and I now keep my house silent as much as possible.

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Me. About the only time I listen to music is when it’s in a movie, when I’m traveling from point a to b in a car with a radio, or when I’m sitting outside a store waiting on someone.

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I like music, but I’m not caught up in it like so many people are. I hear a song and it doesn’t matter where it comes from, if I like the sound of it, I listen to it. My favorite genres are European Symphonic Metal and Top 40 radio, and I’ve been starting to like Crunk lately. But I couldn’t tell you most of the band members or sometimes even get the genre right.

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I really only listen to half a dozen bands and music artists as a whole, I find most popular music terribly uninspiring.

And it’s sad for me, I have friends who are as eager now about new talent and seeing live acts as they were when we were 16 and getting into Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin through our dads etc…

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That’s actually a higher level of involvement than some people have with music. Some people aren’t engaged enough to have given any thought to liking this and not liking that; they might be able to say they do or don’t like something when hearing it, but often not why, and they couldn’t make a coherent statement about it afterward.

I’m pretty much on the opposite end of the scale.

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Crunk is so 1997, I’m into junk now.

Oh wait, that’s a person who harbours an addiction for drugs apparantly, or so says that liberal mouthpiece Wikipedia.

Oh no wait, it’s a woman’s (EDITED - The Taste Police)

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I like music of a very wide range of sorts, but I seldom deliberately listen to it, and I never use a mobile audio device (unless the radio in the car counts)

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Pandora.com on my puter now,
if you dislike a song you hit the

and it’s not played again, :slight_smile:
Islamic terrorists hate music too.

terrorists are getting a lot of surveillance, especially in Europe.

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Are they? They’re not doing a very good job on that whole ‘secret’ plan stuff are they.

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Finally, a thread for weirdos like me!

I listen to music when I’m cleaning or otherwise doing something that occupies. That’s about it. These days I don’t even to my little old collection of CDs, I just put on Pandora. I have artists and songs I enjoy and plenty I don’t, but no passion about anything. I dislike like live music (boring).

I’ve never felt emotion beyond ‘ooh, catchy’ from listening to music, I think that’s a big part of it. Most people I know seem to be extremely emotionally affected by their favorite music.

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I am not much of a music person myself. I do not know how to play an instrument and never really had the interest growing up. I wish I could play guitar, but it takes a lot of practice and is tedious. I am rather infantile and want to play like Eric Clapton tomorrow.

My problem is what I call “public music”. Muzak for example. Not just muzak, but it seems that department stores go out of their way to play the most annoying dreck possible, and outside of leaving their store, I have no choice but to listen to it. My objects to public music is that musical tastes are different, something you love is probably what someone else dislikes. I love the band AC/DC, I doubt my father does. So, wouldn’t playing AC/DC alienate someone in your place of business? And no, playing country music is not a substitute everyone would love.

Almost as a rule when someone is singing in film, I either mute or fast forward, especially if the person is not a professional musician. I just really dislike hearing people singing, unless they know how to sing, and even then, the cat strangling sounds of Celine Dion would fly me into a schitzophrenic rage (or not).

People playing music aloud in public. To me, that is fucking rude. I remember being on a small minivan in Laos with a few other people taking a long trip back to the capital city, when one of the foreign kids puts in a tape or CD of Metallica, Korn or some bullshit like that. Finally I asked him nicely if he could play his music with his headphones because it is loud. He looked at me like I pissed in his punchbowl but complied. Same goes for you dickheads who play your shit loud in cars. I’m at a red light, why are you making me listen to 50 Cent? Now I want to shoot a cop or buy some crack. Geesh!

If I want to listen to music, I can go to a bar. Turn on a radio in my home. Go to a dance club or concert. However, I haven’t been to a concert in at least 25 years. For one thing, I dislike the noise and the crowdiness of other people. Second of all is Ticketmaster, or what I lovingly call Ticketbastard. I am sure there are a number of pit threads that can describe this deplorable company. Then the concert itself is usually a bunch of trashy, half intoxicated people who are going to scream for the sake of hearing themselves scream when the band plays a good song, and then having to stand on the chairs because the dicks ahead of you are doing the same thing and this is the only way one can remotely see or hear the band.

I don’t hate music and have plenty of favorite bands that I like to listen to from time to time. I just live in a place where I value peace and quiet and I get resentful of people who violate that.

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Most of my friends listen to music a lot. Some of them go to concerts constantly, and adore live music.

I like silence. I barely listen to music at all, and when I do it’s brief and then back to silence again. For whatever reason, it’s just never meant much to me, even though there are some genres or performers I enjoy better than others.

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Are you me? Except I’ve never even been all that “interested” in it as a whole - interested in a particular song,maybe. When there are threads here dealing with band members, who played for who, etc, they might as well be talking about the politics on the planet Zorx. I’m sorry to say, I’m one of those pathetic people who are pretty much only aware of the dreaded “mainstream” music (which a lot of I like just fine, thank you very much). The iPod has only a few songs on it, and they’re mostly 80s stuff that I know I like. It would be GREAT to find some non-mainstream, awesome music,but I have absolutely no idea how to find it. I’ve tried browsing iTunes,listening to Sirius, nothing. Maybe my taste is ruined.

And speaking of the iPod, it’s just for working out, I don’t get people who walk around with it all day either.

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I have the same problem; if I’m having a conversation, the TV and the music go off (or get the volume muted). At the same time, I do like having music on. I think in my case it’s because, since I grew up being able to hear the neighbors’ music/radios/TVs but a lot of the time it was in tinny, snatchy, incomprehensible fashion (other times it was worse, like when the kids below would play the same side of Disney’s Snow White LP repeatedly for about 4h every Sunday morning), having my own music play at a very low volume turned out to be the best way to drown that noise off. My idea of a nice volume is so low that people have often thought it was a loudish neighbor.

I play World of Warcraft and one of several reasons I dislike having to use VoiP programs simultaneously with the game (my current guild has one available but it’s not required) is that for me it means I can’t have music on; if I have music on and someone speaks in a low voice, or has an accent I have problems with, I won’t get what they said. Add the people who try to speak over their own loud music, those who see no reason to buy a decent microphone (seriously, if your voice has more crackle than words, just type ingame instead, please), a couple incidents of dudes focusing on my voice/accent rather than on what I had actually said, and I think it’s going to take a long time for me to ever get comfortable with those programs.

I like going to concerts, but it’s more for the people-watching and for my enjoyment in analyzing the artfulness or lack thereof of the show than for the music itself; I’m perfectly able to enjoy being in a concert without liking the music itself, liking it is a plus but it’s… a different activity, for me (I never said I wasn’t weird). And like I said, I’m used to having very low music in the background, but it’s more a matter of drowning other sounds out than for the music itself. I don’t wear an mp3 player when I go for walks; I’ve used one at the gym sometimes as a way to time myself (“3 songs in this machine” works better for me than “10 minutes”, for some reason, and it comes up to about the same or a bit longer).

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Why is it that most of the “not a music person” people are explaining the music that they listen to? I was expecting responses from people who are mentally deficient and “don’t like” music but this is just people who don’t buy into all the attendant stuff associated with music. Well I love music but I can listen to it without paying any attention to it.

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I like music well enough, but I’m no longer really particularly passionate about it or driven to hear it. I don’t tend to get tired of music and can listen to the same cd over and over and over for hours (or leave one cd in the car for six months), but I generally listen to npr instead and I essentially forget about music entirely.

I actually was a very good pianist and I still do enjoy playing on the rare occasions I bother, but I just don’t have the sort of attachment and drive for music other people seem to have. If I had an ipod, it would probably gather dust somewhere because I would forget I have it.

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Uh? We must be reading different threads, I only see one person say what music does he listen to.

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I guess so. In the thread I am reading I see this:
OP ** I listen to the radio,** and I have maybe a DVD worth of MP3s, along with maybe a score of CDs that I’ve accumulated over the years.

CrazyCatLady : **I like music, some of it quite a lot, **and I have a decent collection on my little Walkman to listen while driving or toodling around the house by myself.

Sattua : The only times I get really interested in it are when I’m single…

Mr. Accident : About the only time **I listen to music **is when it’s in a movie, when I’m traveling from point a to b in a car with a radio, or when I’m sitting outside a store waiting on someone.

kushiel: I like music, but I’m not caught up in it like so many people are. I hear a song and it doesn’t matter where it comes from, if I like the sound of it, I listen to it.

Rubik : I really only listen to half a dozen bands and music artists as a whole,

spark240: I’m pretty much on the opposite end of the scale.

Mangetout: I like music of a very wide range of sorts, but I seldom deliberately listen to it, and I never use a mobile audio device (unless the radio in the car counts)

rhubarbarin: I listen to music when I’m cleaning or otherwise doing something that occupies.

Captain Midnight : If I want to listen to music, I can go to a bar. Turn on a radio in my home. Go to a dance club or concert.

GuanoLad: The iPod has only a few songs on it, and they’re mostly 80s stuff that I know I like. It would be **GREAT to find some non-mainstream, awesome music,**but I have absolutely no idea how to find it. I’ve tried browsing iTunes,listening to Sirius, nothing. Maybe my taste is ruined.

jsgoddess: I like music well enough, but I’m no longer really particularly passionate about it or driven to hear it. I don’t tend to get tired of music and can listen to the same cd over and over and over for hours (or leave one cd in the car for six months)