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[Otta]

Prejudice and taste are most definitely not the same thing DJ. They may cross paths at times, but they are completely different things!

[Otta]

But fair point, some people will say that something is rubbish just because it's not to their taste, and that is a prejudice based on their taste.

[Jeremy]

There is a semantical difference between "I don't like it" and "it's terrible". But a lot of people would say the latter while meaning the former. I'm certainly guilty of this when it comes to music.

[DJKillaQueen]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> DJKillaQueen Wrote:

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> > I think prejudice and taste are the same thing.

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> Then you're sadly misguided.

Not really. prejudice can be defined as 'a preconceived preference or idea'. If someone decides they don't like a genre of music in it's entirety...so for arguments sake let's say R'n'B, then they'll never listen to any new R'n'B because they've already decided they don't like it - that's a preconceived idea.....and often that dislike isn't really based on any meaningful in depth exploration of that genre anyway. It's perfectly ok though...most people listen to music for fun and like music they feel affects them, or reflects them. That why there are so many different kinds of music and so many kinds of 'taste'...... ;-)

*crossed posts with Otta - but he/she makes the same point*

[*Bob*]

Anyway, the best thing about Glastonbury is that it's o-vah.

I can stop feeling slightly jealous about not going, smug in the knowledge that I have a festival 'in hand'.

Ha! Take that, sunburnt, come-down Glastonbury victims.

[KidKruger]

Every genre we dislike will probably have something, some example song which we'd really like, that doesn't make the genre any better than we originally thought, it just shows there's probably good in every genre. Which we know already.

But we're not all going to spend our time searching through comparatively 'low return' genres in the hope of finding the track or band which will convert us. There just isn't time, especially when you get past teenybop years.

I luckily have friends that filter stuff for me and lend me good music (in their opinion) and I can make up my own mind, meanwhile I have half a dozen genres which I'm still feverishly pursuing and where I find most of my musical satisfaction.

[Annette Curtain]

*Bob* Wrote:

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I have a festival 'in hand'.

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> Ha! Take that

Oooo are "Take that" playing your festival *Bob*

My paltry ClpmCmmn/Jamie fest is looking distinctly naff now.

:-$

[StraferJack]

*Bob* has Latitude written all over him

[Jah Lush]

I see where you're coming from DJKQ and I take your point, though I think Otta put it better and more simply. It's true that some people just shut their ears because they don't like "that kind of music" no matter what "that" kind of music may be.

As to my own "taste" it is very eclectic and in that if I like something I like it. If I don't, I don't, no matter what genre it is from. I'm broad church and I'm broader than Broadway.

Anyway... time for lunch. dum di dum di dum. Have a pleasant afternoon.

[Jeremy]

My lunch > your lunch

[mockney piers]

Ted's meme > everyone else's memes

[*Bob*]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> *Bob* has Latitude written all over him

You're projecting there, I think..

[StraferJack]

Oh I won't be doing anything there - I'm not going

(boom tsh)

[mockney piers]

I had *Bob* down as more of a thunderdome type.

[mockney piers]

I had *Bob* down as more of a thunderdome type.

[mockney piers]

That or something a little more stylish

[*Bob*]

Good God.. Thunderdome.

It looks like hell on earth.

[mockney piers]

Is that a tacit acknowledgement that you are Bavarian oompah specialists Blue Barons' biggest fan?

[*Bob*]

You got me.

When it comes to the Blue Barons I'm always the one at the front, with the glowsticks and the Vicks inhaler.

[MrBen]

How very wise of you not to disclose *Bob*. As whatever your discerning choice, there'll always be some hipster in a black T-shirt telling you otherwise.

[MrBen]

Anyways - enjoy Kanye West ;-)

[*Bob*]

Oh, how my heart yearns for the ethnic polyrhythms of Womad.

Not long to wait now..

[mockney piers]

Now Aswad and Bad Manners at the Milton Keynes bowl in the heady days of 1988, that was a festival!!!

[Otta]

*bob* I did womad last year, and thought it was the nicest festival I've ever been to. Of course, that may be because it was my first festival with a baby.

[*Bob*]

To be fair though, anything would be nice after Reading - baby or no.