Jazz listening has dulled my taste for Rock...you?


Since seeing Ken Burns Jazz series, and beginning to listen to, and appreciate Jazz... I find that I no longer find Rock music to be very interesting. Compared to Jazz, the music is BORING! The very best of Rock can still hold my attention a bit, but generally Rock is just too primitive and 'simple' compared to Jazz.
Classical music is so different, and has such different rules, that I still find it very appealing, but Rock... bleeh!!! (sorry Rock fans... and I'm not trolling, I really wonder if anyone else has had this happen!)
elizabeth

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Most pop music, including rock, is very repetitive. Yeah, there might be a guitar solo in there somewhere, but unless the lyrics are really deep or really clever, there's not much else going on.

Good jazz, by contrast, is endlessly inventive, so it can hold your interest longer.

That said, I probably own roughly similar quantities of jazz and rock CDs (and a lot more rock LPs, because they partially predate my own shifting musical taste), and listen to both about equally. It depends on the mood.