as much to them.

LIKE THAT!!

It usually means there not into music whatsoever!

makes me sound really indier than thou

but on myspace and facebook and stuff in the music section they put

"anything as long as it's good"

"all the usual stuff except metal"

or even worse, just "rock"

They have Scooter and Iron Maiden in them sometimes.

Your dismissal of 'the stuff in the charts' is as bad, if not worse, than their reading of the musical landscape.

LET ME HERE IT I LOVE

Sonic Youth

one of my favourite bands, and they're huge, so even radio 1 loving idiots have at least heard of them.

I always ask what their favourite metal album is?

"I don't like metal"
"So not everything then?"
"Well no, but within reason, like stuff Radio 1 plays"
"So chart music"
"Yes"
"Cunt"

thrash metal,
speed metal,
battle metal,
black metal,
death metal etc

"most stuff with guitars in"

except in 1/100th of cases probably.

something like

"oh everything from *insert quirky indie band* to *insert underground rap/grime artist* and from *insert Norweigan hardcoreXband* to *insert classical composer*"

too pretentious?

i worry about more important things than how people define their music taste.

when people ask me what music i'm 'into' because it's true, and i can't be arsed with listing a load of bands/artists and being met with a blank stare. it's boring. if i feel that i'm likely to like similar bands to someone else i'll go into more detail but otherwise i'd rather talk about something more interesting.

listens exclusively to radio 1 and claims to like everything, but only owns about six CDs. Aargh.

"I like fucking music. You know, music to fuck to."

And then I put one hand on their shoulder and sing a really long single note, preferably mid-scale, all the while sustaining direct eye contact and not blinking.

More importantly why the fuck do you care what other people listen to. Just want to prove how fucking awesome you are tapping away on the internet thinking that nobody understands the quality of taste that you have and that no one has as great a taste as you and that you're alone in this world apart from the people you meet on internet forums who just totally get you man, you odious snobby cunt.

Have a good weekend.

Oh by the way, I like everything.

someone asked me if I "liked the band Razorblade...or is it Laserlight ?"

This is true.

If all they listen to is Radio 1 and don't know much music outside of that then perhaps they genuinely believe that they like everything and have a varied music taste.

does this.

When questioned further he is known to say:

"well you know, proper music like blur and oasis, none of this Kaiser Cheifs rubbish."

So now you know, Oasis/Blur = sum of all music.

is the same as saying you love nothing

are like that, although I've found they usually have at least one out of place band, for example this girl I overheard discuss her tastes and listed Oasis, The Kooks, Razorlight, all that stuff, paused and then said Aphex Twin.

IM JUST TOO INDIE FOR EVERYONE

not everyone is a huge fan of music. far from being "massive", a band like, say, sigur ros are actually obscure. most people don't care about what Battles do next, or which member of Broken Social Scene will release the next solo project. and - bigger newsflash - this doesn't make them lesser people for it.

have done previous post sneering at Xfm or whatever

It's damn near impossible to sum up years of music listening in a few sentences.
Saying you like "a variety of things" isn't very helpful and just listing a few bands either risks being met with a blank stare or them thinking "pretentious cock" with the miniscule chance of that person actually having similar tastes.
Fuck it, it's only music.

i was talking to a friend of a friend, who we went to mbv with and who was in a cool band, so i know he likes good stuff, asked me what i liked and i did a huge pause then said "everything" then another huge pause and said "yeah yeah yeahs" and added "wu tang clan". this is probably an unfair reflection, and i love music, so people who don't like it a lot will most likely say "everything" meaning "anything, i don't mind"

everything does not mean you like pendulum arctic monkeys akon and leona lewis

that you're being a snob by saying this. but they're just hiding from themselves.
the truth is, for some people music is just a distraction or background noise or something to dance to. some people just listen to it.
and then some people treat it as something a whole lot more, most of the people here probably fall into the latter category. people who explore and genuinely LOVE music. it is the main part of their life.

the 'i like everything' brigade are just most people, from the former category.

does this make sense? it does to me.

and say 'i'm a total music snob and will probably just offend you'

the therapy was expensive but now i can admit it i can move on

is there a way to answer without sounding like a cunt? if i answer truthfully then i sound like i'm just mentioning obscure bands to sound 'cool', otherwise I'll end up saying something like "i like INDIE".

I congratulate them and their music taste with a hearty hi-five.

Not too fond of R'n'B though, but I can see why others might like it.