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Heck, even my ipod has a lot of pop song structured music, but it's on there for mostly musical reasons. But let's say that 10% of the music on people's ipods is instrumental. Or even 5%. That's still a heck of a lot of music being listened to on a global scale. Even if we take your original assertion that only musicians listen to instrumental music. That's still a ton of people. I dunno... to be honest I forget exactly what the argument was about. Matt Davignon Tour! www.ribosomemusic.com Rigs! www.youtube.com/user/ribosomematt On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Mark Sottilaro<zerocrossing@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> Tour! www.ribosomemusic.com >> Rigs! www.youtube.com/user/ribosomematt >> >> > > -- Matt Davignon Tour! www.ribosomemusic.com Rigs! www.youtube.com/user/ribosomematt