Sharing your music.... When it's not very good

[donkey tugger]

im morphic fields

Are you now?

mfields.jpg

[vurt]

well i don't remember the hair.

[melomood]

I do

Oooooh,henny
She got all the menses eyes that night

[harryupbabble]

my definition of "very good" is...
everything in my music collection.

that sounds overopinionated but
isn't that everybody else's
definition of "very good"?

i mean if it isn't very good then
what's it doing in your music collection?

so, i compare my music to what's in my music collection.
and i'm like "damn, my music isn't very good".
i have the ramones in my music collection.
my music is not even very good compared to the ramones.

but i'm working on it.
and right now, it's going to remain not shared.
thank me.
cos it's not very good.

No, appreciation can be transient. We buy stuff at different times in our lives and the impetus to get rid of it isn't very strong. I have some shit in my music collection.

sure, okay, so there might be reasons why one might have
"shite" stuff in their music collection but still, one's music
collection is still largely what one uses to compare one's
music to? subconciously or not?

as far as i know, all my music idols did that. they all
"stood on the shoulders of giants".
is that not universally true?

also, one's music collection doesn't have to be physical?

perhaps george harrison never had the chiffons in his music
collection but he did have their song "he's so fine" in his
music recollection because it was proven in court that he
stole it and renamed it "my sweet lord"?

[harryupbabble]

im morphic fields

Are you now?


mfields.jpg

is that the singer from the band gwar? oh wait, is that george clinton's
assistant? i'm just jokn', man.

[ghettosynth]

also, one's music collection doesn't have to be physical?

No, but this still doesn't mean that it's easy or worth the effort to remove things from the collection. I have plenty of shite in my virtual collections as well. I think that your premise isn't well founded. I regularly find new music that I think is great that sounds nothing like anything in my collection. I don't often put it in my collection even so. Not because I don't think that it's worthy, but because the reason to own things or, "put things into our collections" isn't necessarily that we like it, per se. It's that we want to own it, or collect it. I'm quite happy just listening to some things, even if only once. Part of this is related to the trend of not wanting to own things. Attachment is a drug.

What we think is "good" is what triggers certain neuronal responses when we listen. For some of us we might be able to articulate what triggers those responses with a greater degree of precision, others not so much. For some of us that might relate to similarity to music heard before, for others that connection might not be so clear.

[harryupbabble]

but then the trigger, good or bad, is deemed "very good".
good enough at least to end up in whatever music we make?

[ghettosynth]

Here's your original premise.

my definition of "very good" is...
everything in my music collection.

that sounds overopinionated but
isn't that everybody else's
definition of "very good"?

No, not at all, not even a little bit. It is over-opinionated, in fact, it's closed -minded. It fails to acknowledge that you may not yet know what even you think is good. It limits your definition to what you've have chosen to collect.

Again, the failure in your thought process here is that taste can be transient and grow/change over time. In fact I think that this is the rule, and not the exception.

i mean if it isn't very good then
what's it doing in your music collection?

This has been answered well. It can be said about anything. There are any number of reasons why things that we think aren't very good are in our music collection.

so, i compare my music to what's in my music collection.
and i'm like "damn, my music isn't very good".
i have the ramones in my music collection.
my music is not even very good compared to the ramones.

but i'm working on it.
and right now, it's going to remain not shared.
thank me.
cos it's not very good.

So this your psyche, and not necessarily generalizable. You appear to be using this to back into your theory on how everyone else defines their metric of what is good. I don't agree with you on this, at all really.

[raiderpdog]

I always felt it was ok to have "bad" stuff in my collection, whether physical or virtual, you can't please everyone, and it seems that every album someones considered bad still has it's hardcore fans. I wouldn't be embarrassed by anything in my collection, who cares in the grand scheme of things.

There will always be the things you really loved, that had longevity to you, and always stayed fresh to you. There are also things you drifted away from, but you don't hate, and there are things that I scratch my head and wonder why I bought it. Other things I thought I would love, but got burned on. And I have some just bad or boring albums to me, but someone else may love them. Yet, they are all still on my shelves, just in case I decide to revisit them, so easier to just keep them now

[Sebastiantheseeker]

if your face is not very good, do you show it?

[PatchAdamz]

if your face is not very good, do you show it?

Sure why not...

[harryupbabble]

if your face is not very good, do you show it?

i'd like to hear people who use botox and had plastic surgery done on their face answer that. i shouldn't giggle, but am. pardon me.

okay i guess there are exceptions. faces damaged by car accident, birth defects, etc. but those are not the main reasons people in hollywood use botox and plastic surgery?

[harryupbabble]

me, i'm butt ugly but i don t need to be pretty to kick your ass.
i just need to be pretty fast.
at speed scrabble i mean. oooh i'm late for that. bye then.

[gaf_thit]

I always felt it was ok to have "bad" stuff in my collection, whether physical or virtual, you can't please everyone, and it seems that every album someones considered bad still has it's hardcore fans. I wouldn't be embarrassed by anything in my collection, who cares in the grand scheme of things.

There will always be the things you really loved, that had longevity to you, and always stayed fresh to you. There are also things you drifted away from, but you don't hate, and there are things that I scratch my head and wonder why I bought it. Other things I thought I would love, but got burned on. And I have some just bad or boring albums to me, but someone else may love them. Yet, they are all still on my shelves, just in case I decide to revisit them, so easier to just keep them now

There's a lot of albums where everything is done by the book in regard to mixing, mastering and music theory and such, but which I find completely boring and then there are garage bands' bad recordings with no rules barred that I find very good.
Some things wouldn't be available if everyone waited with sharing until they could record in a studio or learn the "necessary" musical theory... Sorry, martinibeer talking here. I shut up again now.