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Old 05-12-2009, 20:27
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I'm fifteen years old, and I get told very often from some friends at school, although I've converted a couple to what I call good music, the others listen to music I feel is crappy, anyways, what do you think of my list of my 30 favourite songs:[LIST=1][*]Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight/The End - The Beatles[*]Tug of War - Paul McCartney[*]Lola - The Kinks[*]Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd[*]River of Dreams - Billy Joel[*]Paint it, Black - The Rolling Stones[*]Fixing a Hole - The Beatles[*]One Day Like This - Elbow[*]Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues[*]Two Many People - Paul McCartney[*]The Logical Song - Supertramp[*]I'm Not in Love - 10CC[*]Layla - Derrick and the Dominoes[*]Money for Nothing - Dire Straits[*]All Things Must Pass - George Harrison[*]Mind Games - John Lennon[*]Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes[*]Days - The Kinks[*]Violet Hill - Coldplay[*]Venus & Mars/Rock Show - Wings[*]Our House - Crosby Stills Nash and Young[*]I've Just Seen a Face - The Beatles[*]Maxwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles[*]Daniel - Elton John[*]Mrs Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel[*]Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo[*]Changes - David Bowie[*]Chiquitita - Abba [*]The Importance of Being Idle - Oasis[*]Mr Brightside - The Killers[/LIST]Well, what do you think, you all being the critics...good taste or bad?
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Old 05-12-2009, 20:34
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Taste is subjective. Nobody can decide whether you have good taste or not.

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Old 05-12-2009, 20:39
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No you have excellent taste. Stuff like Pink Floyd, The Killers and Yes is good by me. Your friends are probably just like mine and listen to crappy chart music (mine were obsessed with N-Dubz, Beyonce and a load of crappy pop-punk bands like Fall Out Boy). They were ALWAYS insulting my musical preferences since I liked stuff such as Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Rush and Muse, calling it 'screamo noisy crap' (WTF none of my bands never even came near 'screamo', and it's not even an actual genre). One of them even had the nerve to say that Basshunter was a better singer than Freddie Mercury. Stuff them, they wouldn't be able to handle the good stuff.
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Old 05-12-2009, 20:45
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some of the finest music ever made there op
not all my kind of music but recognisable as excellent in its genre .
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Old 05-12-2009, 20:47
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Ever since i was a kid, I have loved motown and 60s music. I was a bit of a geek at school (in the 1980s) and I didn't like the usual Top 40 stuff... but I kept my mouth shut about what i liked because I was worried that my classmates would take the mickey.

When I was about 15, we went on a school trip and there was a jukebox where we stayed. I'll never forget my shock when one of the coolest kids in the class put "Third Finger Left Hand" by Martha And The Vandellas on the jukebox!!!

So I guess what i'm saying is that you shouldn't be worried about what your classmates think.

Paint it Black would be my favourite from that list you gave!
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Old 05-12-2009, 20:57
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Interesting tastes there, most of those songs wouldn't be my kinda music but they are still good. I like a lot of 80s music and some 70s (Abba being my favourite) as well as modern stuff. I sometimes listen to a lot of 70s/80s synth music if I can find it.
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Old 05-12-2009, 21:06
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Don't let people tell you what you should and shouldn't be listening to, OP. You've got some really good songs there. Most of what your friends listen to probably won't be remembered in 10-15 years time, remember that.
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Old 05-12-2009, 21:07
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No music is terrible, as describing it as that is merely your opinion. I could say all those songs on your list are awful, but it doesn't mean that they are awful it's just my opinion. They aren't awful. I used to be ashamed of saying I listen to pop music etc. for some reason or other. Not anymore. Don't be ashamed of what you like to listen to.
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Old 05-12-2009, 21:10
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Can't beat The Killers.
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Old 05-12-2009, 21:15
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Well I do like Comfortably Numb and Mr Brightside
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Old 05-12-2009, 21:19
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I think you've got great taste, I like a lot of those tracks.
These people who say you have bad taste - what do they listen to?!
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Old 05-12-2009, 21:54
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I'm fifteen years old, and I get told very often from some friends at school, although I've converted a couple to what I call good music, the others listen to music I feel is crappy, anyways, what do you think of my list of my 30 favourite songs:[LIST=1][*]Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight/The End - The Beatles[*]Tug of War - Paul McCartney[*]Lola - The Kinks[*]Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd[*]River of Dreams - Billy Joel[*]Paint it, Black - The Rolling Stones[*]Fixing a Hole - The Beatles[*]One Day Like This - Elbow[*]Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues[*]Two Many People - Paul McCartney[*]The Logical Song - Supertramp[*]I'm Not in Love - 10CC[*]Layla - Derrick and the Dominoes[*]Money for Nothing - Dire Straits[*]All Things Must Pass - George Harrison[*]Mind Games - John Lennon[*]Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes[*]Days - The Kinks[*]Violet Hill - Coldplay[*]Venus & Mars/Rock Show - Wings[*]Our House - Crosby Stills Nash and Young[*]I've Just Seen a Face - The Beatles[*]Maxwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles[*]Daniel - Elton John[*]Mrs Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel[*]Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo[*]Changes - David Bowie[*]Chiquitita - Abba [*]The Importance of Being Idle - Oasis[*]Mr Brightside - The Killers[/LIST]Well, what do you think, you all being the critics...good taste or bad?
Excellent taste - very similar to my own!

The songs in bold are favourites of mine too. People like you give me hope that all is not lost musically!
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Old 05-12-2009, 21:55
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Great tracks there, Cabledude !
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Old 05-12-2009, 21:57
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Just listen to what you want; you don't need people to verify whether you have good/bad taste.

You never know, you might end up converting a few of your friends. I've done so with a few of mine.
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Old 05-12-2009, 22:04
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9 and 11 i like..
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Old 05-12-2009, 22:06
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I'm fifteen years old, and I get told very often from some friends at school, although I've converted a couple to what I call good music, the others listen to music I feel is crappy, anyways, what do you think of my list of my 30 favourite songs:[LIST=1][*]Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight/The End - The Beatles[*]Tug of War - Paul McCartney[*]Lola - The Kinks[*]Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd[*]River of Dreams - Billy Joel[*]Paint it, Black - The Rolling Stones[*]Fixing a Hole - The Beatles[*]One Day Like This - Elbow[*]Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues[*]Two Many People - Paul McCartney[*]The Logical Song - Supertramp[*]I'm Not in Love - 10CC[*]Layla - Derrick and the Dominoes[*]Money for Nothing - Dire Straits[*]All Things Must Pass - George Harrison[*]Mind Games - John Lennon[*]Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes[*]Days - The Kinks[*]Violet Hill - Coldplay[*]Venus & Mars/Rock Show - Wings[*]Our House - Crosby Stills Nash and Young[*]I've Just Seen a Face - The Beatles[*]Maxwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles[*]Daniel - Elton John[*]Mrs Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel[*]Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo[*]Changes - David Bowie[*]Chiquitita - Abba [*]The Importance of Being Idle - Oasis[*]Mr Brightside - The Killers[/LIST]Well, what do you think, you all being the critics...good taste or bad?
I'm 18 and these are among my favourites too.
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Old 05-12-2009, 22:07
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Thanks for that all, faith in my musical taste has been restored, not that I ever really lost it. I have noticed though, as I play the guitar myself, other people who play instruments like the guitar or piano at my school, share my taste too, its a strange thing.
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Old 05-12-2009, 22:10
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Excellent taste - very similar to my own!

The songs in bold are favourites of mine too. People like you give me hope that all is not lost musically!
You can thank my grandparents for that, when I was very small, I'd be driven by them everywhere, and my grandfather was a Beatles and McCartney maniac, whilst my grandmother loved people like Electric Light Orchestra, and I sort of picked them up...
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Old 05-12-2009, 23:02
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Amazing songs! out of that list every song is great especially The Beatles, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison! I'm also 15, one of my friends who plays drums and is into heavy metal want's to be in the music industry but yesterday I asked him who Mick Jagger was and he thought he was a rapper!
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Old 05-12-2009, 23:05
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Cabledude, I wouldn't worry what people say about your music taste - it's varied and shows a real diversity and you aren't just sticking to listening to the usual manufactured crap that most teens subscribe to!

Some great choices in your list! You rock kid!!
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Old 05-12-2009, 23:10
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Amazing songs! out of that list every song is great especially The Beatles, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison! I'm also 15, one of my friends who plays drums and is into heavy metal want's to be in the music industry but yesterday I asked him who Mick Jagger was and he thought he was a rapper!
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Old 05-12-2009, 23:20
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Amazing songs! out of that list every song is great especially The Beatles, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison! I'm also 15, one of my friends who plays drums and is into heavy metal want's to be in the music industry but yesterday I asked him who Mick Jagger was and he thought he was a rapper!
What? How the hell did he manage that?
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Old 05-12-2009, 23:37
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You can thank my grandparents for that, when I was very small, I'd be driven by them everywhere, and my grandfather was a Beatles and McCartney maniac, whilst my grandmother loved people like Electric Light Orchestra, and I sort of picked them up...
Your grandparents sound great. My Dad listened to Fleetwood Mac and Dire Straits, when he was 70, whilst my Mum listened to David Bowie and Queen.
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Old 06-12-2009, 00:15
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Looks like a good collection ya got there.
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Old 06-12-2009, 00:17
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Amazing songs! out of that list every song is great especially The Beatles, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison! I'm also 15, one of my friends who plays drums and is into heavy metal want's to be in the music industry but yesterday I asked him who Mick Jagger was and he thought he was a rapper!
Some people. On par with someone I know asking who Yoko Ono was?
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