There is a disorder called “amusia” which prevents the proper processing of music, causing the affected person not to be able to enjoy music.
Here is a web link:
http://www.fas.umontreal.ca/psy/GRPLABS/lnmcg/website/downloads/DynaPage.taf.pdf
Amusia was also very briefly discussed in a recent issue of Discover magazine. It was in the issue that had a dinosaur skelton on the cover.
I too feel that music is as essential to life as food air water.
It is a form of human interaction that is always available. There is something almost magical about hearing a piece of music for the first time and having it speak to you, momentarily dumbstruck that someone else has nailed exactly what you are feeling so precisely.
I like all sorts of things including
older classic rock (beatles, stones, led zep–not oldies)
R& B esp classic bluesman
some country bluegrass stuff - not the crying in your beer stuff
new and alternative,
classical, operas, broadway,
I honestly don’t know how many cd’s, lp’s, cassettes, and yes even 8 tracks, I own. I’d gesstimate it at least 2,000 though.
Yes I like music.
There was a time when I hated music. All music.
Most of my family is quite musically talented. All of my older siblings (I’m the youngest) picked it up at an early age and went with it. I have cousins that are professional musicians. So it comes down to me, and I have very little talent, but nobody but me realized that. I got enrolled in violin lessons when I was 5, then piano, then trumpet, and so on, and so forth. I was terrible and hated all of them. But since I was supposed to be good (“he’s just not applying himself!” ), I continued to get pressured into taking more and more music lessons, voice lessons, and music theory classes. I was, through this entire process, consistently terrible at playing music.
By the time I got to high school, listening to music was not a fun process. It wasn’t just sitting down and letting the music do what it wanted, it was listening to the chord structure, figuring out the fingering (which I suck at to this day) or listening to see what the people playing were doing wrong. Nothing kills enjoyment of something if all you do is watch for mistakes.
So when my teenage rebellion hit, I stopped all contact with music. I sold all of my vinyl, gave away my cassettes, got rid of stereos, walkmans, pretty much anything that produced sound. For a few years I hated even hearing music coming out of passing cars.
I have since recovered, and now find myself wishing I hadn’t gotten so far away from music at that time.
I’m kind of indifferent. There are songs I like, but I don’t think I’ll die if I never get to listen to “Eminence Front” ever again. If I need noise in the car or at home, AM radio static works just as well as actual songs.
Ouch. That really sucks, buckgully.
I can’t imagine being without music. Even when there’s no music around me, I hear it in my head almost all the time–not the “stuck song” phenomenon, just music playing. Sometimes it’s music I’ve heard before, and sometimes it’s just my subconscious improvising on the sounds around me. I can stop it if I want to, but I usually don’t. If it went away and I couldn’t bring it back, I’d feel like I had suddenly gone deaf.
Intellectually, I can accept that some people just aren’t interested in music, and I can certainly understand why a childhood like buck’s could turn someone off on music. I can’t empathize, though–I can’t imagine feeling that way myself.
music for me, is listening.
I don’t need music in bars, restaurants, shops, elevators, supermarkets, public * toilets!!* , cars in front of me - or cars where-ever-, hospitals and funeral homes.
I’d like my own music, thankyouverymuch.
How can you no like music?
I can’t see how anyone can honestly say that.
I have a pretty eclectic musical taste, especially for being a teenager. My Real One Player is liable to play any of the following:
-Swedish Rap
-German Hip Hop (Gonzales, Fettes Brot)
-New Orleans Metal (Acid Bath)
-German Hard Rock (Megaherz)
-German punk/hardcore (Boehse Onkelz, Die Toten Hosen)
-Opera
-Jazz (Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Paris Combo)
-German folk metal (In Extremo)
-Russian techno (Russky Razmer)
-Indie type rock (MK Ultra, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead)
-Eclectic and bizarre rock (Subway to Sally, the Butthole Surfers)
-Wartime propaganda
-Soviet hits from the '40s
-'80s pop (Taco, Nena)
-German March Songs
-Industrial (KMFDM, Wumpscut, EN)
and a host of other odd combinations.
I like music,but can’t stand to hear it on the car radio ( only oldies) on commercial stations with DJ’s acting like teenyboppers,so I use NPR,which for me,means jazz 5 days and 2hrs.of blues Sat,Sun,and-if I’m out at noon-3 Sat,Latin jazz which I love.
At home I only listen to music as an experience,not background.Could never figure out how people,apparently a few in this thread,have it on all the time.
Music needs my concentration,and other than driving,I’d tend to block it out-or block out the other activity I’m doing like having conversations,or just searching the web for something that interests me.
Ps-tomorrow I’m getting Santana’s Supernatural which on track 7 has the hit with Mana that was featured on the Latin grammys.That song blew me away.
My last year’s fav. was Arturo Sandoval’s Hot House.He can really blow that horn.
I have a deep appreciation for any atist that can make me just listen,or watch, in awe.A great gift.
Yes, I definitely do like music. Maybe not all kinds, but I think I can appreciate music (and I’m not a snob, either). I usually have to have some sort of background noise, whether it be TV, the radio, or something else. Silence is good sometimes, of course, but music is just so prevalent that it would be hard to imagine life without it.
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Buck, that just sucks that you were manipulated into disliking something to that level. I am from a very musical family as well. I played a little guitar as a kid, but wasn’t as talented as the rest of the family either. However, I wasn’t pushed, and maybe that’s why I still enjoy it so much.
This is very interesting to hear all these different outlooks on music. I had no idea there were so many people that didn’t like it! Wow…
I apologize for the late response, was on vacation. Anyways, I did have exposure to music, such as field trips in schools to things like symphonies, and in 6th grade required to take an instrument. Hated all of it. I didn’t even like the noise that I made with clarinet, symphonies or any of those things just were boring. Maybe I have the amusia disorder someone mentioned?
I’m with musicguy. I can’t imagine a world without music. Even though there are some kinds that I don’t like, I can usually understand what would be appealing about it.
It gives me a thrill to be able to create and communicate thoughts, feelings, and emotions by playing and listening to music. I just hope those that don’t like music get the same sensation from other creative outlets.
My sister learned to play her saxaphone upstairs while I was developing musical tastes so Kenny G is out. Also she played the same Queen album constantly and I’m unable to listen to them without hating it AND knowing all the words. Sometimes she played her sax to the Queen record :eek:
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