This Is Why You Should Listen to Music You Don’t Like Martin Kielty

UltimateClassicRock ^ | February 4, 2021

[kaehurowing]

More attempts to defend a degenerate, collapsing culture.

[familyop]

“What’s the most annoying sound in the world?”

Classic rock and pop country. Easy listening variants are much healthier.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

To Hollerweger, that was evidence that both good and bad sounds are “really just two manifestations of a larger underlying natural beauty, which we humans can become a part of and nurture (through music, for example), but which ultimately exceeds the value judgements that we can't quite seem to be able to do without.”

Can I have the word salad to go with dressing on the side?

(Yes, that was a value judgment. Learn to live with it.)

[alexander_busek]

[...] noises we don’t like [...]

Folks, calm yourselves!

I don't think that this article is advocating that one try to appreciate music containing, e.g., violence-glorifying, anticapitalistic, misogynistic, or racist lyrics.

It's about sounds which might reveal certain fundamental properties of the Universe and/or the human mind - not "rap music."

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

[...] noises we don’t like [...]

Folks, calm yourselves!

I don't think that this article is advocating that one try to appreciate music containing, e.g., violence-glorifying, anticapitalistic, misogynistic, or racist lyrics.

It's about sounds which might reveal certain fundamental properties of the Universe and/or the human mind - not "rap music."

Regards,

[real saxophonist]

I nominate Mel Torme.

[metmom]

The resulting suggestion was that perhaps we should make a point of listening to music we don’t like if we want to understand life better.

Is he willing to listen to Christian worship music?

That said, I see no reason to inflict on myself something I don’t like and do not see ho, in the least, it would help me to *understand life better*.

He can take his opinion and stuff it.

[Secret Agent Man]

Josh Groban.

[Captainpaintball]

I nominate Mel Torme.

Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.

[caww]

Agree....though I have an appreciation of all musicians who have mastered their art there is a difference in those who have a true passion about their music and those who don’t regardless how well they’ve trained.

[gr8eman]

Loose Bedspring versus Grateful Dead?! Take your pick...Ice pick through the eardrum or sledgehammer to the teeth!

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Life is too short to listen to music you don’t like.

[CTyank]

https://youtu.be/IDHHXJIrv4c

[metmom]

Very succinct.

[TheGreatFazool]

What’s with dumping on Nickelback all the time. Nickelback is OK.
To me it’s like peer pressure to dislike Nickelback; you know, the cool opinion that cool people have, the in-group, and if you don’ have it you’re a mouth breathing dumb caveman.
Kind of what liberals do to everyone they don’t like.

[real saxophonist]

He could turn ‘Cherokee’ into a ballad. Just can’t stand his voice. The ‘Velvet Fog’.

[real saxophonist]

The tagline is from ‘The Big Lebowski’, if you didn’t know. 8~)

[sauropod]

What’s the most annoying sound in the world? Some might reply it’s fingernails on a chalkboard, someone vomiting, their ex’s snoring or Nickelback.

I would say it's the Beatles.

Most annoying band evah! Worse than the Eagles.

[sauropod]

Is he willing to listen to Christian worship music?

I agree with you on that. I play for my church on Wednesdays and it just seems to me that they make it complex (unnecessary half stops etc.) just because they can.

Give me an old timey hymn anyday. Especially some Isaac Watts or Charles Wesley.