Musical preferences

[Matt Picone]

I’ll chalk that Dolly Parton story down to the same thing, combined with the wisdom of age. When were younger, we have anti-preferences which can be pretty strong.

Let’s also not neglect that there is a purely primal component to all of this. Watching Tony Bennett sing so well when he can’t even remember his name speaks to the subconscious nature of music in much the same way that ritual chanting does. 

> On Dec 20, 2021, at 12:52 PM, Matt Seil <xeno6696 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'd say that's overly reductionist.  
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> What's the time in my life that reinforces "I'm gonna hit random on Spotify/Pandora/Whatever" and then for example, figuring out "Whoa, i never heard this Dolly Parton song before, it's really good!"  
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> What's weird here is that I don't even like country!  Well, not normally.  That Dolly song (Jolene) is like nothing I'd normally listen to.  30 years by that point of hating country and never hearing that song and then like, "Whoa, that's really good..."  
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> That's also how I found out about several Jazz musicians... Jazz in general is something I didn't get into until I was like, "You know what, I never did listen to Miles Davis."  
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> I've heard  nothing at all like Bitches Brew before or since, and Sun Ra, well, good luck finding comparisons there.  John Zorn maybe?  
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> On 12/20/2021 10:29 AM, Tony Scharf wrote:
>> >> 
>> Musical preferences are the result of emotional reinforcement attached 
>> to people, places, and times in our lives.
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>> Could not have said this better.  
>>  
>> Tony
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>> From: Matt Picone
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>> Musical preferences are the result of emotional reinforcement attached 
>> to people, places, and times in our lives.
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>> Matt
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>> On 12/19/21 4:21 PM, Mikael Hansson wrote:
>> > Something I’ve thought about for a while is what defines my musical preferences.
>> >
>> > Even though my taste spans quite a few genres, one thing that is common, is that it’s mostly in the alternative genre, i.e rarely mainstream and if it is, most likely on the border between mainstream and alternative.
>> >
>> > I’m not really sure why. What’s your thoughts about this, what differs between mainstream and alternative. Is it the ethos, the not so polished production, another “mould” to make music (or lack of thereof) etc.
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