From Che Sent Wed, Jul 1st 1998, 00:57
At 01:08 PM 6/28/98 -0500, daniel wrote: >this is not a house vs. idm thread. My point is that people close their >mind and make rigid rules of what IDM is. They then follow those rules >and if the music is outside of those rules they refuse to listen. These >same people then complain IDM isn't any good now days. How many people on >here have posted at one time or another that they won't listen to tracks >with vocals? Think of all the music they have missed out upon because >they won't listen to someone sing. Or what about those people who post >that they won't listen to music with a guitar in it? Again they are >missing out. A closed mind is never a good thing. I detest the taste of meat. Didn't like it as a kid, don't like it now. It tastes strongly of acid to me (mmm...mmm must be the uric acid, the major flavor component of both meat & urine). Would you say that by not eating something I don't like that I have a closed mind? That I'm missing out? I hope not. Similarly, I usually don't like the sound of vocals or guitars. It's a matter of taste, not of having a closed mind. I do like Bjork's voice, I like Robert Fripp's guitar playing, so there are exceptions to the rule. However, I find that the percentage of vocal and guitar music that I do like is so exceedingly small, that it's just not worth my time to seek out the little that I might like. There's more electronic music that I like than I can keep up with, so it's a question of priorities, not of closed-mindedness. Che