People who describe their music tastes as “eclectic”.
Eclectic meaning: deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources
Example: “I have an eclectic taste in music”.
So fucking what? Who doesn’t? How many people do you know who only listen to one genre of music? Why fucking say it?
People think that liking a lot of different music styles is somehow superior. Superior to what? Presumably the imaginary people who don’t. People just like any reason to feel superior. Just about every middle aged housewife who chooses the oldies at 3 on Steve Wright on Radio 2 describes their music taste as eclectic. What they really mean is:
– I don’t really, but it makes me feel slightly less worthless.
– I don’t really, but I just have the radio on all the time to drown out the sound of my own thoughts. Does that count?
– I’m old but I listen to Radio 1 because I don’t have any personality or worthwhile interests so it makes me feel like I’m somehow relevant.
– I use spotify to choose my music because I can’t be arsed.
– Someone left a classical music cd round my house.
– My mum told me I was special, so I have to believe superior things about myself.
– I let my children dictate what it on the radio/cd player when I am acting as their taxi-slave. That counts right?
– I don’t actually fucking realise that everyone I have ever fucking known likes music from different genres because it’s almost impossible not to these days.
etc.
The most annoying thing is the implicit superiority in stating you have an eclectic music taste, Well guess what monkey brains, there is something to be said for exclusively concentrating on one music genre – you get to understand it more, it’s nuances and varying styles. It takes time. It isn’t inherently inferior unless you think that plugging yourself into the huge range of bullshit music available nowadays makes you some sort of globetrotting sophisticate. Oh you’re western middle class – you think that anyway.
Fuck these cunts. Go find a sense of self worth somewhere else, I don’t want to hear your inner child screaming out to be validated by declaring itself superior.
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I think I’ve mentioned on here before a total and insufferable cunt who I used to work with a while ago… She was the one who thought she was on another level to everyone else because she claimed to be into ‘music’ like Pavement and lezza crap like Sleater Kinney… Another trick by this attention seeking weirdo cunt was to sing along to a really bad record… The daft bitch would play ‘Girl You Know It’s True’ by those Milli Vanilli cunts on the staff room CD player, and as she squawked along to it, said to everyone in the room (even though nobody had said anything) ‘Don’t judge me!’… Well, it was then I did decide to judge her: and I judged that she was a cunt…
This is also the same complete twat who thought she was also superior and part of an elite because she was ‘into’ unfunny cunts like Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris, and she even referred to herself as a ‘Colbertinista’… What a total and epic cunt…. I hated the bitch and I still do…
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She’s an inconsiderate cunt. I wouldn’t allow a CD player in my office staff room, but if I was staff and she did that, I’d have the balls to walk over and switch it off…
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There’s no such thing as good music or bad music, just music you like and music you don’t like. It’s totally subjective.
I like Led Zeppelin and Mozart. Most stuff I can take or leave. If this makes my taste eclectic, so be it. It doesn’t make me feel superior.
I don’t like Wagner but I can appreciate the talent.
Mind you when you live in Suffolk, disliking Britten is sacreligious but I dislike his dissonance and lack of melody. I actually do think he had very little talent and was famous because he was the best they had!
I exclude rap from this because rap is not music…
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The Who, JS Bach and anything with a top tabla player. Eclectic? Eccentric would be a better word perhaps. Depends what you encountered along life’s journey…but I’d suggest a major taste divide between melodic/vocal and rhythmic/physical – song and dance – even in the absolute shite pumped out for the juvenile masses today.
Britten’s vastly overrated on every possible level, agreed.
Wagner – good orchestration wasted on ridiculously grandiose concepts.
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Actually I don’t agree that music is neither good nor bad. I’ve heard some stuff over the years which was just poorly done, ergo bad. Whether that be an uninspired vocal performance, a guitar solo that even I could play or some blatant plagiarism which has neither the depth nor craft of the original. There is bad out there. I have some in my collection!
Case in point, I never liked anything Michael Jackson put out, but I’d say it was a very good example of its genre, despite the fact I don’t care for it.
Rap music is really bizarre though, isn’t it? Obviously I have too much respect for my hearing to subject my ears to that nonsense, but angry blacks yelling about shootings/drugs/hos/etc. over a drum machine beat while the backing ‘singers’ yell, “Whasup y’all, you ged it, ya feel me, hell yeah”, etc. Not overly musical or requiring much in the talent department. Still, each to their own.
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I don’t give a fuck what any cunt’s musical taste is……as long as I don’t have to listen to it or listen to them rabbiting on about it.
When I come to power you will listen to music through headphones or suffer a grisly public execution. End of discussion.
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Rap, Bongo music,Reggae, New wave,digital, trance and all that shite is banned in my house. My House, my fucking rules! Fuck off if you don’t like it!
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It’s used often by people who want to show you that they know what eclectic means and that there is a good chance you don’t.
This is why they are cunts.
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Unfortunately I have very wide ranging tastes, which probably puts me beyond the pale here.
From Doo-Wop to Dylan to Davis to HENDRIX to Coltrane to Floyd to Soft Machine to Stooges to Sisters Of Mercy to Andy Williams to Amon Duul to Neu! to Focus to Glass to Wagner to Stockhausen – you fucking name it…
Not that I’d ever mention it of course, so lick my cunt decals off, motherfuckers!
PS: Agree 100% Dio – rap is NOT music.
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There’s no “unfortunately” about it. I think it’s great you enjoy a wide variety of music, as do I.
Speaking of doo-wop, I can’t quite remember (and I wish I could) but the very first album I bought ON CASSETTE no less, was either Parallel Lines by Blondie or The Amazing Darts by The Darts. Still got ’em. There are some wonderful tunes on that Darts album. Still listen to it. Just as How Soon Is Now by The Smiths perfectly captures the angst and awkwardness of being a teen, the Darts song Sometime Lately beautifully captures the sense of love’s loss. Give it a listen if you care to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ2L8bxn61E
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I like all kinds of music and I like what I like irrespective of the genre.
What is pervasive though (courtesy of Social Meejah – the gift that just keeps on giving) is the group-think mantra of: “Oh this guy/gal is so cool, you MUST listen to their stuff!”
And the next thing you know they’re huge stars for being mediocre at best carried along by a wave of “joiners” who just want to be part of something (anything) to justify their existence and to garner a few more sought after likes.
This is how were end up with cunts like Sheeran and Adele. Now Sheeran seems like a canny lad but his music is not of my taste. Single note Adele has to be the luckiest cunt on planet pop.
Funnily enough – recollecting my snow hindered trip back from my Aunt & Uncles – the random selector in the car pulled out:
Black Cow – Steeley Dan
Little Jon – Kool Moe Dee
Parvane – Gabriel Faurè
Human – The Killers
Never Too Much – Luther Van dross
Moves Like Jagger – Maroon 5
Make it through the Night – John Holt
Is that an eclectic music taste? No, it’s just shite I like to listen to. End of.
Any cunt who proclaims that they have an “eclectic” music taste is just a cunt, a pretentious cunt!
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‘Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.’
I think you’ll find that rap is music as is death metal, although some people find certain genres or styles shit and don’t class them as music by definition they are. If I walk around stamping my foot, clapping my hands and singing in my best voice saying ‘I am a cunt’ that is technically music.
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Come on B&W Cunt stop plagiarising Sheeran’s stuff!
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That cunt Sheeran will come after me with his lawyers, I’ll tell them I know naffink abaaaaaht it. What the fuck is he about anyway? I can’t work out his style. One minute he’s a bit ‘Street’ and then he’s releasing ‘She played a fiddle in an Irish band’. The cunt.
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A good agent would make a fortune from that idea (and keep it) . But don’t use your best voice. Go up an octave, whine irritatingly, and use a vocoder. You’ll need to make a video of you and all your friends doing it in a badly-lit location in Sunderland, too.
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@Komodo, I think I’ll need the autotune as well.
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Agree – it’s technically music if the cunt making the noise says it is. Even rap (he said, rowing back on a previous comment based on prejudicial personal taste)…
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Cmon then everyone let’s form the ‘Is a Cunt band’, we could all ‘dance’ in sync and name our first album ‘Buy this otherwise your a cunt’. Could make a few quid.
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Buy ‘Vincebus Eruptum’ by Blue Cheer. Otherwise you’re a cunt.
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I did, and I got rid of it because it sounded like a watered-down version of their live performances. But after all the shite that’s come our way since, it might possibly sound pretty good if I listened to it now.
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Pfft. 🙂
And now some real music.
Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad – and don’t miss the segue from Not Fade Away:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZiBjTno9Uc
(On the vinyl it ended there but I see the Utube cunt added a couple of tracks. Don’t bother with them)
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@Allan,
Oh please, everything has to be perfect with you!
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Unfortunately this has already been done…
“Anal Cunt was an American grindcore band from Newton, Massachusetts. Formed in 1988, the band released eight studio albums, one live album, five compilation albums, eleven extended plays (EPs) and eight split EPs. Anal Cunt disbanded in 2011 due to the death of frontman Seth Putnam.” Putnam was no loss in my humble opinion.
My particular favourites were “Hitler was a nice guy he was just misunderstood”, “You quit doing heroin you pussy” and “Two turds and a golfball”
Actually I’m lying. It’s all fucking rubbish but what amazes me is that some cunts actually paid money for it.
Still, it makes my stuff sound good !
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I’ve always rather liked
“I was walking down the street one day and saw a house on fire…
Jump you fucker, jump”
Can’t remember if it’s CV Stamford or Howells-is-good-for-the-bowels…
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Music is like sweets, you can enjoy all kinds of it when you’ve thrown away the (w)rappers.
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How long before the PC thought Nazis ban white people from listening to rap, RnB or Motown because its cultural appropriation of black culture?. I don’t really listen to any of this stuff but that wouldn’t be the point.
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They should be done for cultural appropriation for MAKING it, after all they need microphones and recording equipment made by whites in the first place.
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Rap music is an oxymoron….
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Agree (he said, rowing back on a comment previously rowed back on previously once before…) FFS!
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Black Lace, Sinita and Danglebert Pimpledick for me. Then One Direction or Robson&Jerome if I want something heavy and sincere.
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The word Eclectic comes from the Greek Eclego and is a pretentious way of failing to use the more common Varied from the Latin Vario.
I have always been somewhat embarrassed that the music that I like or if you prefer respond to most (as a good former pupil at one of London’s distinguished Conservatoires) might be broadly described as Classical aka Serious but must confess I also like… Abba, which I justify on the basis that most or at least some of their tunes are thinly disguised Lutheran Chorales.
In the alternative my taste is eclectic because I like (to play) The First Book of Bach’s Twenty-Four … and also the Second.
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“My taste in music is more obscure then your taste in music ha take that you punk” seriously tho my taste in music is quite eclectic but I don’t feel intellectually superior,…. oh wait nevermind yes I do lol Eclectic tastes aside anybody remember Fred Dinnage? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y81ixirw5U Fred Dinnage’s finest moment ladies and gentleman
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What makes me laugh is how people misunderstand music, Mr Brightside by The Killers for example never fails to get all the muppets up dancing at weddings because apparently it’s a ‘feelgood’ song even though it’s actually about a man who thinks his missus is cheating on him. Brilliant feelgood song that how about following it up with Enola Gay because that tune sounds cheerful too!
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I too have had similar conversations with people who make claims about really being into music. Most of the time, these cunts have less than 10 CDs, a couple of vinyl albums their parents were throwing out when they moved and a tape they nicked off their sister in 1989. Cunts.
How much music you own matters. Downloads don’t count. Streaming doesn’t count. Reading the lyrics, production notes, who played on the album, where it was recorded, who produced it, who engineered it, the record label, the art work. This is what having the physical item is all about.
My collection runs to about 3,000 CDs/records/tapes at this point. I thought I was pretty shit hot when I started a new job a few years ago and got chatting to someone who was also really into music. This guy seemed to have an encyclopedic knowledge of bands, band members, which other bands they’d played in, when they last toured, who produced them, you name it. I eventually plucked up the courage to ask how many CDs etc. he had in his collection. About 7,500 was the answer. Wow! I was so crushed I almost cried!
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Somebody once said:
“I’ll try anything once, except incest and folk-dancing”
I had a crack at one of those once, and a dismal and depressing experience it was too.
In case anyone’s curious, I had a 1ry school head-teacher who was a fully paid-up member of the provisional wing of the EFDSS
As far as music goes, I’ll give anything a go once.
I certainly don’t wear it as a badge of pride… It’s more like a sort of incontinence.
At least with youtube, it’s foc.
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