Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

@frogman 

No one is  suggesting that one has to like music that one is trying to “get”.

 

I can't say whether I'm the only one who's been laboring under the illusion that  "getting" and "enjoying" necessarily go hand-in-hand, but I appreciate you taking the time to point it out. Very helpful!  

Stuartk, In my personal experience, listening, getting, and yes, tolerating, many times lead to liking.

I love it when I get the "concept" through the music and it adds a whole ’nother layer of enjoyment (e.g., Jethro Tull, Passion Play where it runs from the beginning to the end).  Maybe if opera was in English...  

I especially love it when I understand the joke and nobody else seems to get it, some even when you explain it to them.

Go to 25:30 and answer the question.

Even AI doesn’t get the joke and quotes the disk wrong!

https://youtu.be/lmWFrMq3qNY

Great point,  @acman3 !

I dont know if i takes the times i will learn how to  appreciate every single individual artists. I dont think so.

For each singular artist i listen my gut and my feeling guide me...i rarely change my mind...But there exist a slow changin evolution in my musical journey...

For a style,genre,or for a cultural musical movement or way of being, it is another complete story...

Here my taste had been educated and trained with much humility and listening session whose goal  was : what this means ?

Once a culture is slowly integrated with many years, my opinion about any of his artists is felt  immediately almost without too much error...

Example ?

It takes me a slow habituation in the madrigals style of Italian  music to understand the difference between Gesualdo and Monteverdi and appreciate the two on equal footing....

 I discovered Jazz only i stumble onto artists that were geniuses i could understand on the pot but it has taken much times to appreciate all jazz musicians for who they are... Humility for sure ...