Do people in your community share your musical tastes?

[TheCoolGuy]

Read the title. I personally know no one who knows anything non-mainstream (by mainstream, I mean REALLY mainstream.) I had to actually introduce my friends to bands such as The Pixies, NMH, The Smiths, Joy Division, the Velvet Underground, etc. The closest I've seen to people who know some degree of music is 2 people who were walking around school, one with a Joy Division shirt and one with a Dinosaur Jr. shirt (albeit it was Farm...)

Anyway, do people you know know as much about music as you do/share your tastes?

[Gowienczyk]

Not really.

[tridentgum0]

Full of people who call music any older than 6 weeks old "old".

[supernova1324]

Most of my friends just listen to mainstream music, some just listen to songs in RB, some people in Rock Band Club listen to some cool stuff like Husker Du Replacements, Pixies, etc. but they also listen to some ****ty bands, I see a few metalheads who wear death shirts, and there are a bunch of punks who mostly wear Casualties and Exploited shirts.

So kinda, but I don't tlak much with the people who do have decent music taste.

@Trident: My friends didn't know who Kurt Cobain was and thought he was "old."

[Lolicat]

My Best Friend likes some of the music I like, but also has some awful musical taste that I rip on her for all the time (secretly I don't mind some of it though).

My other best friends are mixed, they like the odd band that I do, but it's heavily informed by their own tastes, such as one guy who is really into his dad rock and singer-songwriters will like Old Crow Medicine Show, or another who I agree with on some artists but find that he likes too much novelty music or the wrong albums (prefering Dylan's early folk to the electric trilogy, for example).

[MrFruitLord]

I can make one of my friends like any music I like. Besides that though, no one really likes anything I really enjoy, although some popular bands I like are liked by others.

[tridentgum0]

^ I have a friend like that. Listens to whatever I do.

I've seen a kid who wears a Descendents and Black Flag t-shirt. I've never talked to him, though I want to hug him.

[supernova1324]

another who I agree with on some artists but find that he likes too much novelty music or the wrong albums (prefering Dylan's early folk to the electric trilogy, for example).

I can relate, the one guy I know who listens to Husker Du prefers their punk material to their alt material. I don't see how that is possible.

[Lolicat]

I can make one of my friends like any music I like. Besides that though, no one really likes anything I really enjoy, although some popular bands I like are liked by others.

I like this 'making' people like music. I am so guilty of this. Just today I sent the Shagg's album to a friend in the post to guilt them into listening to it.

[afterstasis]

all of my friends like some of the tunes i dig, but none have anywhere the range that i do...

so yeah, i've got some friends into noise/experimental stuff, some into good indie/alt stuff, some metalheads, some into psych/prog, etc.

[Lolicat]

My friends are mostly into dad rock, lame-ass classic rock or bad '80s hits. You're lucky afterstasis.

[supernova1324]

Yeah, a lot of the guys in Rock Band Club at my school like dad rock and mainstream generipunk.

Then again, there was a guy who hadn't even heard of Jimi Hendrix before...

[neckermanncj]

i have great friends (like maybe 6 or 7) that listen to the same music as me, unfortunately 2 of my better friends are at school in Chicago and Boston.

and one of those friends got me into The Smiths and i am FOREVER grateful

EDIT: that same friend got me into Twee too!

[afterstasis]

My friends are mostly into dad rock, lame-ass classic rock or bad '80s hits. You're lucky afterstasis.

i just searched long and hard, plus tried to play an active role in the musical development in the the 10 people worth not choking in tennessee.

i have a few old high school friends whose taste pretty much died in the mid-90's...
they went from loving radiohead and the smashing pumpkins to digging on kid rock and godsmack.

[Rocket2Russia]

Who are The Pixies?

Anyway, my best friend (loose term) is obsessed with Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa almost exclusively, and he probably has some of the best taste at my school, to give you a comparison.

There are two people I know of (both conveniently girls) who listen to the same music I do at my school, and one is a good friend for that reason.

Most people in my area (upper-middle to upper class area of town public school) are into metalcore, nu-metal, post-grunge and dadrock.

[chumsicles]

I've actually had people ask me "WHATS THAT" when I told them I was seeing the Pixies in concert

A couple of my friends are at least familiar with all the bands I like, but nobody really shares my tastes. The vast majority of people here are listening to ****ty mainstream music and lame screamo bands like A Day To Remember

[CommonCriminal]

Hell to the ****ing no.

[Cubecubed]

if we are talking about my friends,then hell yes. my entire group of friends loves Coheed. but in my everyday life,hell no.

[a21schizoidman]

i don't let anyone have the same musical tastes as me, as soon as someone else has heard of a band, they are immediately crap, that's why you gotta stay on the ball and have a lot of lighter fluid and matches on hand, you search and search, find something you like, but then your friend walks in, and he hears it, so then he likes them, and you have to burn the album, because it's no longer the "in" thing for me, so, then i search more, but i find out someone else has bought that album, well, that's not for me, can't get that, it sucks then

[overcookedbacon]

Sort of... I've got one friend who has almost identical taste in music to me, and I know a few more people through him who have similar taste as well. None of my other friends have similar taste though. I have a few friends with good taste, just different taste.

[Pseudo]

Nearly everyone in my town likes or knows Phish, the Grateful Dead and the String Cheese Incident.

[Lameboy19]

everyone near me is either a "raver" (Tiesto and and such crap), "metalhead" (slipknot), "Emo" (Scary Kids Scaring Kids), or "whatever's on the radio"

not one person shares my taste in music, I introduce my friends to the lighter stuff (i.e fun.) but anything else I just get strange looks from them.

there was one guy in the parking lot of Carls Jr. blasting "Ghost" from his car, but that was as close to good music as I've encountered

[Oscar-Rio]

**** no, people suck. They're all these boring-ass ****-munchers listening to really terrible techno music that keeps me up some nights when i try to sleep. Oftentimes i will wake up early on purpose and be sure to play cradle of filth as loudly as my butt-crack-quality computer office speakers will reach.

[back_blows]

**** no, people suck. They're all these boring-ass ****-munchers listening to really terrible techno music that keeps me up some nights when i try to sleep. Oftentimes i will wake up early on purpose and be sure to play cradle of filth as loudly as my butt-crack-quality computer office speakers will reach.

OMG, you're the one doing that??

[polishdog90]

Some of my friends share my taste in music but I generally have a different friend or group of friends for each type of music. I has one friend who is really into electronic music and the local DJ scene. I have a group of friends that are really into experimental music and jam bands, jazz, and blues. Then most of my other friends listen to a mixture of classic rock, modern indie stuff, some hip hop, or electronic music. Most of them don't actively search for music though.

[berkthgar]

Not even close :( growing up in a small town near a city, all we have is hicks and G-unit wannabes. There's a small group of "metalheads" but they're just deathcore scene kids who piss me off. Some of my closest friends have a few bands in common with me, but like the guy above me said, no one else in town actively searches for music.. It's saddening :(

[RidethePiggy]

Very rarely but you tend to find some people sneaking around listening to some good stuff.

There's a bar in town here that hosts tiny prog shows and it's fantastic. I saw Umbra and the Vulcan Siege not too long ago and it was one of the best mellotron I've ever seen in person. Also, one of the most talented guitarists I've seen in a long time, Andreas Kapsalis, played their with his Kapsalis Guitar Duo group.

[Mega-Tallica]

Everyone I know listens to nothing but the mainstream rap/hip hop garbage. And if not that, then there's the small group of "metal" fans, but they don't like any good metal. All they listen to is August Burns Red, Avenged Sevenfold, and The Devil Wears Prada. I'm the only person I know that has some sort of musical range, but that's not much:p

[XacharyCross]

Community wise, it's mostly the pop-culture hip-hop/dance stuff (which is Z103 here, which is our subsidiary of Virgin Radio, which may help some folks with hwat I'm trying to describe).

Or obscenely poor punk music, which is most of the local band scene.

[franticfish]

people hate the music I listen to, which is a good thing.

[killer_roach]

College town here... can find people who are fans of pretty much anything, or are at least open to discovering pretty much anything. Kinda surprised when I found out one of my female friends liked listening to Koenjihyakkei...

[tridentgum0]

Not even close :( growing up in a small town near a city, all we have is hicks and G-unit wannabes. There's a small group of "metalheads" but they're just deathcore scene kids who piss me off. Some of my closest friends have a few bands in common with me, but like the guy above me said, no one else in town actively searches for music.. It's saddening :(

Don't hate. :p

[ElectricWankery]

It's funny, i used to be that guy who barely listened to anything past the doors or the rolling stones, and some of my friends got me interested in other stuff. Then my own tastes really developed, and now i'm the one into all the weird stuff no one has heard of. My best friend listens to a lot of what I like, and over the past few months just about everything I recommend him he ends up loving.

I'm also lucky because a lot of the people that I do know in the local music scene have similar tastes, but overall, I still got a lot of strange looks when playing stuff that's "eclectic and weird" such as The Pixies, Nick Cave or Sonic Youth. Good thing I've never put on my Naked City or Residents albums around those people, their heads would probably explode.

[clashcityrocker10]

I have some friends at school who enjoy some of the stuff I listen to. I have one friend outside of school that enjoys great hardcore punk, but then also listens to the modern "mallcore" stuff and some other bands I'm not that big on (Vampire Weekend, for example).

Other than that, I suppose that my school has a more eclectic taste than most places. I couldn't really lump most people into one category.

[schmeankman]

I only have one friend that even consitently listens to music, and he likes The Killers, Green Day, Bon Jovi, ect... Most of the kids at the schoolyard are either into Disturbed/A Bullet For My Valentine or Pink Floyd/Metallica, though not so much in either group that they can name any of thier songs. I'm only into surface-indie stuff (Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco, Sonic Youth..) in addition to my Neil Young obsession and dad-rock that doesn't get played on the radio, but I can't really talk about music with anybody I know.

[Fizzeler]

with the exception of some kids in my Engineering and History class no

Although most of them don't know what true emo is or the Death Metal

[Lithuanian_Boy]

I know quite a few people in my community (namely my friends) who have very good musical tastes.

[citizenCERO]

Only a couple friends listen to decent music, and even less of them listen to the same style music as me.

[Runesmith]

There are three people around here who listen to awesome music. My brother will listen to whatever I listen to, as well.

[DrewLee865]

One person at my school listened to Black/Death/Thrash metal last year but he graduated. I swear I'm the only soul at my school that likes metal music that isn't watered down metalcore or Metallica.

[seriousbusson]

There are two people here that do, as far as I know.

One of them I actually got to join this board, Kid-Charlemagne. He's a big fusion/classic rock/metal fan in whom I have got him into various artists(Bruce Dickinson's solo stuff, Isis, Queensryche, and UFO first come to mind), and he in turn has made me really appreciate Steely Dan(wonder where he came up with that name!) and Dire Straits. He and I do disagree a bit, especially since he's anti-ambience and anything counterculture, but besides that, we have some awesome taste and are great friends.

The other person is a girl that I admit I was into for a little. She's a big metalhead, being way into the Norway scene and has a clear and logical perspective on most of the scenes out there. Besides metal she also loves Joy Division, and I had plans to introduce her to Ameseours, along with other good things as such. What happened, you ask? She met the self-proclaimed MASTER OF MUPPETS. Now she can do whatever she wants.

[a21schizoidman]

There are three people around here who listen to awesome music. My brother will listen to whatever I listen to, as well.
that sounds like 3 more than anywhere else in the world for anyone else here

[supernova1324]

There are three people around here who listen to awesome music. My brother will listen to whatever I listen to, as well.

If only my brother was open minded like that. Luckily my dad is somewhat open minded to stuff that I show them, and there are very few bands on my ipod that my mom would like.

[clashcityrocker10]

Speaking of siblings' music taste, my brother's taste at the moment has left me seriously disappointed. Hopefully he'll grow out of it soon.

[supernova1324]

High school is going to hit my brother like a shovel, and I will savor every moment of it.

[Lameboy19]

Speaking of siblings' music taste, my brother's taste at the moment has left me seriously disappointed. Hopefully he'll grow out of it soon.

I know what your saying I made my brother get a last.fm so I could track him and this (http://www.last.fm/user/ochc19) is the result

ignore the sufjan and NMH, I forgot to switch profiles and noticed way later than I should have the rest he really listens to all the time

[supernova1324]

I know what your saying I made my brother get a last.fm so I could track him and this (http://www.last.fm/user/ochc19) is the result

ignore the sufjan and NMH, I forgot to switch profiles and noticed way later than I should have the rest he really listens to all the time

You think that's bad?

http://www.last.fm/user/r6vfan

[Runesmith]

that sounds like 3 more than anywhere else in the world for anyone else here

Yeah. I consider myself very lucky.


If only my brother was open minded like that. Luckily my dad is somewhat open minded to stuff that I show them, and there are very few bands on my ipod that my mom would like.

My parents are like your mom, too. :( I think having a close-minded brother is worse, though, since more time is generally spent with siblings than anyone else.

The brother is a bigger fan of The Cure than I am.

[Lolicat]

My brother likes some awful fashion victim music, but he also enjoys a bit of decent Pitcfork-level music. He's slowly improving from being a total loss.

[Soror_YZBL]

I make my own community, so yes. No one 100% though. If you're talking about the residents of my neighborhood, I highly doubt it, but I haven't done a census. Long Island is full of classic rock meat heads, and I live in the meatiest of the meathead areas.

[a21schizoidman]

I make my own community, so yes. No one 100% though. If you're talking about the residents of my neighborhood, I highly doubt it, but I haven't done a census. Long Island is full of classic rock meat heads, and I live in the meatiest of the meathead areas.

the Residents live in your neighborhood? that's badass

[Supersneezy00]

Only my parents...:confused:

[Soror_YZBL]

the Residents live in your neighborhood? that's badass

I wish. Our most famous resident is that drunk driving piano player.

[a21schizoidman]

I wish. Our most famous resident is that drunk driving piano player.

...'stasis?

[Runesmith]

...'stasis?

Brian Setzer, silly!

[a21schizoidman]

my next guess was Billy Joel

[clashcityrocker10]

Long Island is full of classic rock meat heads.

I can attest to this fact, especially when Billy Joel is mentioned.

[Gowienczyk]

but especially Billy Joel.

This is bad?

[clashcityrocker10]

This is bad?

I think he's alright, at best. Any sort of interest I have in his music does get a bit tempered when everyone seems to love the guy.

[Lolicat]

I've actually noticed recently that my friends merely tolerate me sending them albums and hyping **** up to them all the time. I think they view it as a mildly annoying quirk that I come off with factlets about bands all the time.

[afterstasis]

I've actually noticed recently that my friends merely tolerate me sending them albums and hyping **** up to them all the time. I think they view it as a mildly annoying quirk that I come off with factlets about bands all the time.

i did that in high school, but now everyone usually comes to me.

[Lolicat]

i did that in high school, but now everyone usually comes to me.

I think they appreciate my musical knowledge, but it grates with them that it's my main topic other than 'shut the **** up, your taste in films sucks, let me tell you how you're wrong.'

[afterstasis]

i don't really talk about movies much at all. my two best friends in nashville are the film experts.

[Lolicat]

i don't really talk about movies much at all. my two best friends in nashville are the film experts.

My interests are mainly music and films. Especially independent flicks and Gen X films, and a seasonal interest in Asian films.

[afterstasis]

i'll occasionally get into some film-talk, but i prefer to watch movies alone and never really care to discuss them afterward.

i pretty much just talk to friends about music, drugs, and food.

[Lolicat]

i'll occasionally get into some film-talk, but i prefer to watch movies alone and never really care to discuss them afterward.

i pretty much just talk to friends about music, drugs, and food.

I studied European cinema and my closest friends did too so it tends to come up. Of course, most of what we talk about is who's into who, etc.

[Soror_YZBL]

i'll occasionally get into some film-talk, but i prefer to watch movies alone and never really care to discuss them afterward.

i pretty much just talk to friends about music, drugs, and food.

I have you beat. I have no friends.

[Soror_YZBL]

my next guess was Billy Joel

Well duh. On long island you never worry if you're going to run into billy joel. you worry that he's going to run into you.

[Jixzer]

Being as how I usually live in Military communities, I'd have to say no. It's such a diverse group of people from all over, so the tastes tend to be rather broad. One thing I have noticed however is that most are pretty accepting of other's tastes. You'd be surprised how often you see the metal heads and rap fans at local country nights and vice versa. :) I guess that's why I have a real problem with the "auto-insult" crowd here.

There are exceptions of course. Further, I tend to hang with an older, more mature crowd who have moved passed the "cool" stage of life and are more concerned with enjoying themselves rather than fitting in.

[a21schizoidman]

I have you beat. I have no friends.

pfft, i totally paid you to be my friend for an hour


Well duh. On long island you never worry if you're going to run into billy joel. you worry that he's going to run into you.

Billy Joel is awesome though

[back_blows]

i'll occasionally get into some film-talk, but i prefer to watch movies alone and never really care to discuss them afterward.

i pretty much just talk to friends about music, drugs, and food.

Could have sworn you spoke about the 3rd gender more than anything.

[tridentgum0]

i pretty much just talk to friends about music, drugs, and food.

FWIW I mainly talk about music, food, sports, and liek super teenage gossip.

[citizenCERO]

FWIW I mainly talk about music, food, and liek super teenage gossip.

I'm great with the liek super teenage gossip.

[DethTung]

I'm great with the liek super teenage gossip.

The liek super teenage gossip was always my least favorite part of middle and high school.

[citizenCERO]

Well, I'm usually the start of it.
And for being a guy, I'm pretty damn loldrama.
So yeahhh.

[DethTung]

Well, I'm usually the start of it.
And for being a guy, I'm pretty damn loldrama.
So yeahhh.

*cough*citizenCERO is a Taco Nazi*cough*

Moving on...

If you ask me, the drama is worse in middle school, when you're not as used to it.

[Rocket2Russia]

The liek super teenage gossip was always my least favorite part of middle and high school.

I can agree when it doesn't negatively involve me.

[onidragon]

Not really. Most of my friends are metal heads who rip on me for thinking punk is far better than metal. I have two friends who like a lot of the stuff I like, but that's about it.

[Wiiman95]

Well me and my friend Alex are the only people for miles that have heard of Dream Theater, Yes, Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Ruch, or BTBAM,...........

So no. Most people 'round here is only listen' to that Miley Cyrus stuff or Jonas Posers crap.

[ArmsAreLoud]

*cough*citizenCERO is a Taco Nazi*cough*

Moving on...

If you ask me, the drama is worse in middle school, when you're not as used to it.

I'd say it is worse, but just because in middle school people are acting the way they think they should be acting in high school. Due to the blight that is Disney Channel, the LOLdrama is what is expected. People tend to wise up a little bit by the time they get into High School.

...And as for the OP, no, no one does. I am so lonely.

[JukeBoxHero]

I can't think of anyone in particular, although I'm sure if some people stepped it up here in terms of looking out for new music to listen to we might share more of the same bands. I did get a friend of mine to enjoy the Pixies, and typically with another friend he's fairly open minded enough to listen to anything. I also got a friend to listen to Atheist but I'm not sure if they ever really got into them. :(

[Soror_YZBL]

pfft, i totally paid you to be my friend for an hour


Our friendship ended when the meter stopped running.


Billy Joel is awesome though

Awesome at sucking.

[a21schizoidman]

Our friendship ended when the meter stopped running.



here's another 50 bucks


Awesome at sucking.

when did he make a porno?

[Soror_YZBL]

here's another 50 bucks
You have my attention, sir.


when did he make a porno?

Seriously? He was in Behind the Green Door.

[a21schizoidman]

You have my attention, sir.



Seriously? He was in Behind the Green Door.

the fact you'd have your attention on him choking down some sausage like that scares me slightly

[Soror_YZBL]

the fact you'd have your attention on him choking down some sausage like that scares me slightly

who him or me? I'm kosher, I don't eat sausage.

[a21schizoidman]

who him or me? I'm kosher, I don't eat sausage.

you had your attention on him doing it


and i know, you don't care for sausage, you're into tacos

[Soror_YZBL]

you had your attention on him doing it


and i know, you don't care for sausage, you're into tacos

I heard you eat sausage tacos, which is why you're a lady gaga fan.

[a21schizoidman]

I heard you eat sausage tacos, which is why you're a lady gaga fan.

nah, that's you and gowie

[Soror_YZBL]

lady gaga is sexy.

[a21schizoidman]

lady gaga is sexy.

i'm guessing the porno is in the works then?

[citizenCERO]

lady gaga is sexy.

+1

[Shadowolf]

I don't know too many people with a really impressive range of taste, but I know a few that rival or surpass my own range. Right now, I can think up 3 people.

[Fragory123]

I live in a fairly small community, so there aren't really any groups of people with similar taste like you would find in a big city like the "metalhead group" or the "indie rock group" or whatever.

Most of my friends have completley opposite tastes. One of them loves alternative and experimental stuff. One of them loves almost any prog or metal he finds out about. One of them is the most hardcore Avenged Sevenfold fan you will ever meet. And the other guy appreciates anything that takes real talent (so he says) and likes a mixture of popular metal, classic rock and prog.

I'd say the guy who likes experimental stuff and the "prog-head" are the most open minded. I managed to get the former into several metal/prog bands that I never thought in a million years he'd like including Mastodon, Converge, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Torche, Kylesa, Baroness and Between The Buried And Me. Similarly, I got the latter into a few bands also including Textures, Arch Enemy, Atheist, Gojira, Mastodon and others. He also got me ito Between the Buried And Me as well as Ayreon.

The other two guys, not so much. The one who likes a mixture of stuff is ok. I'll show him a song by a metal band like "Blut Im Auge" by Equilibrium and "Vacuity" by Gojira and he'll say he really likes it. He'll go home and download the entire discographies of those bands, but he'll really only listen to the song that I showed him. And the last one? Well he's way too close minded to even attempt to show new music too. He says doom metal is ****, and that any metal with screaming/growling in it is also **** (yet he likes Children of Bodom). I told him I liked "Visions" and he said I had something wrong with me. (He did introduce me to Nevermore). At least the former respects my appreciation of those style of vocals, though he can't really get into it himself apart from a few songs.

So yeah, that about covers the taste of my closest friends. We all like metal to a certain extent though, so yes, we do share musical tastes.

[berkthgar]

^ at least you have a couple open minded friends! I don't even bother trying to play them anything experimental, proggy, indie, or anything >.> it's pretty much Suicide Silence, or nothing with them.

[Fragory123]

^ at least you have a couple open minded friends! I don't even bother trying to play them anything experimental, proggy, indie, or anything >.> it's pretty much Suicide Silence, or nothing with them.

Ugh, that band is terrible. I guess I should count myself lucky. I can at least deal with Avenged Sevenfold, despite how much that friend of mine talks about/plays them.