People who don't like music

weemcd wrote: »

I saw someone post on facebook that their partner (i'd guess roughly 30 years old) had never been to a concert. I'm sorry but my initial reaction was what a dickhead.

The person for never going to a concert or their partner for posting it up on Facebook?

Music lovers here seem to think the people who express no interest in music are saying they actively don't like music and avoid it. I imagine thats not the case. Most people like at least one genre, one band or even one song! The difference is that there are people who don't actively seek it out, don't buy music, dont make time to listen to it, but when they are exposed to it, (like on the car radio) they would like it.

From a young age I was always into computers and gaming and that has always taken up as much if not more of my free time than music does for most people. Ive bought about 10 albums in my life and my taste would be very narrow. Also I dropped off the music radar in my early 20s. So Im kind of stuck in the 90s. When that Nothing But 90s show is on the radio I know the words to almost anything popular from 95 to 2002. After that I wouldnt have a clue. So I have an MP3 player but its mostly packed with old stuff. Anytime I complain about XFactor/reality TV/manufactured modern music, Im told that "the good stuff is still out there, you just have to look for it" Well thats the thing. I dont care enough to look for it. When I was 18, it came to me. Thats where it lost me.

As it happens, have Tom Dunne on in the background. Hes doing a best albums of 60s, 70s, 80s. Its all Dillon, Thin Lizzy, Guns n Roses, Early U2. There was music! None of yer feckin 1D or Justin Boober.

Candie wrote: »

I know one older man who dislikes music, and has never read a book for pleasure in his life. He's generally a very curmudgeonly type of person, and I can't imagine him getting any joy out of anything tbh. He's the kind who'd curse winning the lottery because he'd have to spend time in the bank. I think in some cases, its down to a personality type that finds it harder to get pleasure from the little things.

I know someone exactly like this as well.

I'm convinced just by letting a wee bit of music or a great book into his life it would ensure he'd be slightly less curmudgeonly. Some people just don't want to know - their loss really.

I realise everyone is different - having said that, how some people get through life without being moved by music in some way mystifies me.

Catari Jaguar wrote: »

Look at the flippant & dismissive language you used - bop, inane... you ARE being judgmental, and defensive to boot.

Music lovers here never said they listen to inane music, or bop or get joy from doing that either.

I feel bad for non music likers. Missing out on such a vast world - stretching over 100s of years, 100s of cultures, 1000s of genres, millions of songs. Just seems so closed minded to deny yourself such a simple pleasure that could be so personal and unique.

To me, and I think to a lot of the music lovers who are actually *shocked* and unable to comprehend, it's a huge shame, just seems like a waste. I don't know if that's judging or not. I would be heartbroken if I had a child that was unresponsive to music or tone deaf (my Gran is so it's a fear of mine)

And calling people who don't get pleasure out of music "closed minded" isn't judgemental?

Do you really think those posters here who came out saying that to them, music doesn't really matter have not TRIED to find out what the rest of the world sees (or hears) in it? I used to get a lot of hassle about it - from my gran trying to teach me songs and complaining when I wasn't playing along to my teachers grading my singing (shudder) to my peers excluding me for not liking the same bands as them (I tried, and yes, I did lie in the end. I listened along and pretended that it was great when actually I was just bored to tears).
To claim we're all closed-minded and "denying ourselves" for being indifferent to music is rather unfair.

Why do people assume music is so different from, say, reading or food? Humans have been telling each other stories for at least as long as they were making rythmical noises, yet nobody here would raise an eyebrow at a poster saying he/she doesn't like reading that much.
Me, I would never even leave the house without a book in my bag.

And it's the same with food - an intenselt pleasuarble, multi-facetted, satisfying experience. Yet there would be many here who would call food "soakage" without anyone feeling the need to tell them that it's a shame they're so closed minded and denying themselves such pleasure.

I do enjoy music, but I don't bother going out of my way to learn the lyrics or who made it - I just listen to whatever's on the radio.

Primarily like Jazz and easy listening music.

Never downloaded any music, only ever bought 3 or 4 CD's in my life and maybe 2 or 3 cassettes as well.

Never been to a concert and would have no interest in going to one. Listen to the radio a lot though and would sometimes put a couple of euro into a jukebox in a pub.

I also like live music in a pub, provided it isn't country music or diddley-eye sh*te.

Belong in the same weirdo group as people who don't like movies

UCDVet wrote: »

I don't 'like' music.

I mean, as part of a movie or video game....sure, throw it in. But I never just 'listen' to music and I never really understood why so many people seem to enjoy it.

Back when I was younger, people seemed to define themselves by what music they liked....so I learned to lie. I made it a point to know a few popular bands of a few genres and, depending on who was asking, I'd try my best to answer appropriately.

People are weird.

I feel much the same way about sport. I often dread a trip to the barbers and the awkward inevitable death of conversation that begins with the question, 'so, what did you think of the game at the weekend...?'

GorillaRising wrote: »

What the hell do people do on long solo drives without music?! Madness!

I remember driving for a 3 or 4 days across Australia and this one station was playing the 'Top 100 songs ever!'. It was great!

I'd probably get some audio-books if I had to do that.

Horses for courses and all that, but i personally would find it much harder to live without music than without, telly, internet, books, beer probably sex even.
A day without music is a day wasted.