Re: Zero People (was: ambivalent feelings)

[Mark Sottilaro <zerocrossing@gmail.com>]

I totally agree with that Matt, except for Trance which is just sonic
wallpaper for a dance club for the most part.  Yup, people are into
all of those genres, but my guess is that if you look at most people's
iPods (including mine) the percentage of those is shockingly low
compared to your basic standard pop song structured based music.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Matt Davignon<mattdavignon@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Mark Sottilaro<zerocrossing@gmail.com> was like:
>
>> I know zero people who are into  instrumental music who are not 
>musicians.
>
> pish-posh! You're just not paying attention to a bunch of genres of
> wildly popular instrumental music:
>
> classical
> jazz
> techno (especially IDM, d&b, and "trance")
> ambient
> new age
> movie scores
> and heck, I'd count 20 minute Grateful Dead jams too, even if they're
> bookended with vocals.
>
> I'd agree with a sentiment that you seem to be heading towards, which
> is that a lot of people choose the music they listen to based on
> non-musical reasons. People who don't pay too much attention to music
> often pick something because they like the stage persona of the
> singer.
>
> On the other hand, if you look at bands and albums people really like,
> many of them are due more to the qualities of the music than the
> lyrics or band's image. (Look at the success of Pink Floyd, Radiohead,
> Jimi Hendryx, M.I.A, Talking Heads, Nirvana, prog rock and probably
> even most 80's synthpop.) That suggests to me that a good deal of
> people have an ear for sounds whether they know it or not.
>
> Matt Davignon
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