Re: (idm) back in my day...

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