My Brother Has Shit Taste In Music

[chubbthehippo]

So, I had asked him if he even knew who Pink Floyd was (forgot how the subject came up). He said it was some band, so I asked if he even knew what time period they were popular (As in, active as a band) in, and he thought they are a modern band, he said he's heard the name from some people.
I told him to listen to Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Part one/ Parts I-V) on Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd, and he gets bored about 4 or 5 minutes in and starts saying how stupid it is because it just goes
DOOOOOOO doooo DE DOOOO doooooo
and how it's like 50 seconds of nothing in between anything and when they start playing the guitar they have to play it slow because they are bad at it, or something like that, unlike "good songs he's heard". He stopped listening at 8 or 9 minutes, and was acting like it was torture and he "lasted" that long or something. He also complained because no songs are ever longer than 4 minutes and they just needed to put a lot of filler for no reason to make it look cooler.

He went onto tell me how that must be just be one of their bad songs, because from what he heard the band is supposed to be pretty good, and a lot of people like them. So I tell him how in a lot of their songs they were experimenting a lot, so he told me how the band must just really suck.

A few years ago, he got an iPod Video, and he only put songs from Songstowearpantsto.com and also had "the best day ever" from the spongebob episode, and he loved the song and thought it was really catchy.

It just pisses me off, I mean fine w/e he doesn't know anything about music, he barely even knows anything about the Beatles. The Homecoming theme was British Invasion, and Freshman's got British Music section, and he's all like wow that's gonna be hard to do, there are barely any british bands! Fine whatever, but he should at least be able to tell a good song from a bad one. I mean seriously, even if you liked Hip-hop, Scream-O, Country, w/e you should still be able to tell that's a good song. Pisses me off.

Oh and before you ask he's not 7, he's 16.

[Dez1790]

Make him listen to some fucking Megadeth.
That'll straighten him out.

[JustsTrollingAlong]

OMG HE DOESNT LIKE PINK FLOYD? BUT THEY HAVE LOTS OF SHIRTS AT HOT TOPIC SO THEY ARE GOOD!!!!

[Piss]

Seems to me like you only listen to big bands from the older days, and you rave on about how much better your taste in music is because of it.

Idiot.

[EyeLovePoozy]

Wait a minute.

Are you ripping on your brother for preferring some music over other types of music?

[EvilerBowser1001]

He's 16.

Also, he's also his own person.
Of course he's going to have different tastes in music.
As long as he's not blaring the shit that annoys you every night, I see no reason you really should act like a dick to him.

Besides, I can understand why he'd think some Pink Floyd is boring.

You played one fucking song to him.
It's one song, it means nothing about his tastes.

[Gagsy]

Different music opinions.. Who knew eh?

His life, his choices, his decisions.

Your life, your choices, your decisions.

Respect other people and their right to enjoy whatever they do enjoy.

[gradenator]

That was way too much text for the story you were trying to tell (whatever the hell that was).

[yurgenburgen]

He probably does have shit taste in music, but personally I've never liked Pink Floyd either.

[MonkeyV]

He can enjoy shitty music.
Lucky man. Don't change him.

[fuzzum111]

Not as bad as my taste. All I listen to is video game music and stuff I make.

[OddlyPoetic]

You get pissed over nothing and i pity you for this.

[newgroundskeeperjim]

My brother is a lot like me.

Classic rock

He likes different bands though. He likes Journey and Scorpions, I like Rush and AC/DC.

He really has a wide variety though. A month or so ago he got hold of my Offspring cd (Americana anyone?) and didn't stop listening to it for the next 2 weeks.
So yeah, my brother is the most badass 10-year-old ever.

[ChocEliteBar]

Get him to listen to Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave! Both are great bands!

Rage Against The Machine's Rage Against The Machine, The Battle of Los Angeles and Evil Empire albums and Audioslave's Audioslave album, if you wanted some great music from both.

[Jon4life]

Lay off your brother. I don't know much about Pink Floyd and I never really liked them that much. Some people just have a different taste in music. Plus, I don't like how some people are only into classic rock, like Pink Floyd, ACDC, Queen, Aerosmith, etc. Those bands have been played so many times until they are no longer really cared about with people into modern music.

[PrinceFlea]

Why are you trying to force your into enjoying your music ,I'd say that he should be allowed to have his tastes while you have you're own since no one has the same taste.

[chubbthehippo]

At 9/19/09 12:20 AM, Piss wrote: Seems to me like you only listen to big bands from the older days, and you rave on about how much better your taste in music is because of it.

Idiot.

I named one band, and I just brought up Beatles because everyone knows who the fucking beatles are. My favorite band is Modest Mouse, but I also think Pink Floyd is has some really really good albums, but I'm not saying they're my favorite band.

At 9/19/09 12:22 AM, EyeLovePoozy wrote: Wait a minute.

Are you ripping on your brother for preferring some music over other types of music?

He doesn't prefer any music. I asked him to name me a song he liked, the only song name he could thing of was "that one from halo 3 lolol"

At 9/19/09 12:29 AM, MonkeyV wrote: He can enjoy shitty music.
Lucky man. Don't change him.

But he doesn't enjoy good music.

[therealanimator]

people have different opinions of music. its nothing to ramt about it

[Zerok]

At 9/19/09 12:14 PM, chubbthehippo wrote: I also think Pink Floyd is has some really really good albums, but I'm not saying they're my favorite band.

No, you were stupidly using Pink Floyd as a litmus test against your brother's musical knowledge... I'm willing to bet the kid was born in mid nineties. Times change, bub. You probably can't name some of musical sensations that rocked the 1930s without a Google search can you?

[HeartbreakHoldout]

How are we meant to tell if he has bad music taste purely because he doesn't like Pink Floyd or the Beatles?

I don't like the Beatles whatsoever, and I know very little about Pink Floyd, yet I think my music taste is fucking excellent.

[chubbthehippo]

At 9/19/09 12:20 PM, Zerok wrote:

At 9/19/09 12:14 PM, chubbthehippo wrote:

No, you were stupidly using Pink Floyd as a litmus test against your brother's musical knowledge... I'm willing to bet the kid was born in mid nineties. Times change, bub. You probably can't name some of musical sensations that rocked the 1930s without a Google search can you?

The only bands he could name were Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana because he saw them on Disney Channel. He knows they're bad, but probably only because people told him they were.

[Zerok]

At 9/19/09 12:21 PM, HeartbreakHoldout wrote: yet I think my music taste is fucking excellent.

If anyone ever truly thought their own taste in music was terrible, then I'd say they qualify for some sort of exotic mental disorder.

[Zerok]

At 9/19/09 12:22 PM, chubbthehippo wrote: The only bands he could name were Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana because he saw them on Disney Channel.

Well that had pretty much nothing to do with what I said, but okay. I like this bit though:

He knows they're bad,

Did you mean "thinks"? I love a lot of Miley Cyrus songs, they're catchy and upbeat.

but probably only because people told him they were.

Yeah, people like you.

[AlacritySoundz]

At 9/19/09 12:19 AM, JustsTrollingAlong wrote: OMG HE DOESNT LIKE PINK FLOYD? BUT THEY HAVE LOTS OF SHIRTS AT HOT TOPIC SO THEY ARE GOOD!!!!

I fucking Lol'd
Because some people I see wear pink floyd, but don't even listen to them.

[chubbthehippo]

At 9/19/09 12:24 PM, Zerok wrote:

At 9/19/09 12:22 PM, chubbthehippo wrote: The only bands he could name were Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana because he saw them on Disney Channel.

Well that had pretty much nothing to do with what I said, but okay. I like this bit though:

He knows they're bad,

Did you mean "thinks"? I love a lot of Miley Cyrus songs, they're catchy and upbeat.

but probably only because people told him they were.

Yeah, people like you.

Ok, whatever, if you knew him you would get what I'm saying.
Just lock the thread or delete it or something I don't really care.

[therealanimator]

At 9/19/09 12:24 PM, AlacritySoundz wrote:

At 9/19/09 12:19 AM, JustsTrollingAlong wrote: OMG HE DOESNT LIKE PINK FLOYD? BUT THEY HAVE LOTS OF SHIRTS AT HOT TOPIC SO THEY ARE GOOD!!!!

I fucking Lol'd
Because some people I see wear pink floyd, but don't even listen to them.

hot topic ruins a great band yet again.

[MonkeyV]

At 9/19/09 12:14 PM, chubbthehippo wrote:

At 9/19/09 12:29 AM, MonkeyV wrote: He can enjoy shitty music.
Lucky man. Don't change him.

But he doesn't enjoy good music.

But he's more likely to find shitty music easier.

[HeartbreakHoldout]

At 9/19/09 12:22 PM, Zerok wrote: If anyone ever truly thought their own taste in music was terrible, then I'd say they qualify for some sort of exotic mental disorder.

Yet, I listen to Flo Rida, and I know it's bad. Hell, even some Soulja Boy. I think that adds to my music taste though: I know not everything I listen to is good, but I can appreciate it still. And I have courage to call the Beatles a pile of steaming shit.

[o0-0o]

Music tastes is a matter of opinion. He is just as much right to like the music he does as you are to think his music taste is shit. Either you like it or you don't.

Personally I find people with weird musical preference more interesting than what most of my friends prefer or just the generation in general(classic rock and all that). I recently found out one of my friends listened to the classic Disney movie theme songs, my first thoughts was 'wow, that is fucking cool.' while others might think that would be lame.

[rome-lherison]

You can't hate your brother for the type of music he likes you dick