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...sometimes friendship has to be based on more than musical taste....

.....thats why I come to DiS if I want to air my views on music or amuse myself on peoples inflated opinion of These New Puritans (for example)

I said 'Shangaan Electro. And only Shangaan Electro.' That shut 'em up. 'Dubstep' used to be an instant conversation killer but the term is too well known now.

And a laminated catalogue of pictures of the front covers of stuff I've only got on vinyl.

I had this conversation reversed with my then MP, who had read my Facebook profile. His wife said

'we also like Fanfarlo, we've known Leon since he was a child'

and then commence shouting his lyrics until everyone leaves

Then start talking about something we have in common, like sports.

...but pretty much anything seasonal.

...was the first thing that popped into my head when some guy asked me last saturday in a mistaken attempt to find some common ground between us. I steered the convo away from music as soon as possible.

"Oh, you mean like Mumford & Sons?"

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"Yeah, they're ok I suppose."

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I tend to avoid talking to people about music until they bring up something I know I can talk about, just cos I feel like a bit of a dick otherwise.

fuck it, i don't remember the last time i actually got asked this question.

probably because first they ask 'what do you do' and my answer has been 'music student'... thus they ask what i player (trombone) and then i end up talking about my degree, which i spent mostly doing world music. even tho i actually spend most of my time listening to Million Dead and Andrew WK

I only listen to audio recordings of bukkake"

"Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU42iWcvTCg

Never been asked

if I think they've got a shit music taste or someone who doesn't really care for music too much I actually will fire back straight away with "well what do you listen to?" and in my experience no one has ever insisted on me answering first. Then I'll answer accordingly to what they say, for example "Oh you like Florence and The Machine? I like Kate Bush who you may well know, also this old band called the Cocteau Twins who you might not have heard of and you should check out Zola Jesus who are really good, give them a go".

If they know a thing or two about things I'll tell them what I've been listening to recently and if they seem to be a bit of a geek I'll be really specific in terms of bands and particular albums I love. In all honesty it's a rarity for that to happen with someone I would talk to in work or in a club.

because I don't listen to radio favorites, it's all over the place. Library music, reggae, rockabilly, doo-wop, soul, funk, electronica, garage, weird oddball wfmu-type stuff (check out dave the spazz or rex) - guests will say "do you have any fleetwood mac or billy joel?" and I wanna send them home.