Do you have a 'tester' record?
 

An album that, if you discovered a person didn't like it, you might have to wonder whether you could ever truly consider them a friend.

The Pixies - Doolittle



I don't understand how anyone could not love that record. But i do have friends who are not pixies fans.

If a person doesn't like Hip Hop or ethnic music, I immediately think that they are narrow minded. It's not always the case, though.

No.

You wouldn't find many people who like Cowboy Junkies, anyway.

I don't hate Doolittle, but have never been that much of a fan either. The Pixies came along at a time when I was listening to other stuff.

I'm flicking v-signs in the general direction of London. Can you feel them?

If you really couldn't find ANYTHING to like in this, then I'd have issues. You wouldn't need to love it, as such, just enjoy it - at least a bit.

I dunno about that. The Trinity Sessions is a great album.

In my experience, fans of Hip Hop and 'ethnic' music can be amongst the most narrow-minded people I've met.

ew!

It's true, especially so far as Hip Hop goes. I don't see too many enlightened minds sitting at the back of a 25 bus, that's for sure.

velvet underground - white light/white heat

Rock fans are much worse. How many people who play or listen to world music do you know to make such a claim?

I'd generally agree about fans of World music, but see no real indication of major open-mindedness with your average (and I stress average) 50 Cent fan. And this coming from someone who likes Rap a lot.

Anyone closing themselves off from a genre in its entirety is clearly a fool, but this isn't about genres but single albums, etc.

So while I generally see nothing of any value in this:


I see an awful lot to love in this:

beastie boys in general

Two, actually: The Modern Lovers (s/t) and Sticky Fingers.

You must have an enormous amount of mates, then.

What has 50 Cent got to do with it?

P.I.M.P may have deplorable subject matter, but its a great tune.
Most of my freinds arent into the kind of music i like anyway, so we kinda club together around things that i find some mild level of enjoyment in.

I totally agree with this, all of my friends that like hip-hop, only listen to hip-hop. They usually question the fact that i enjoy listening to guitar music or anything that isnt hip hop for that matter.

i used to think that if someone didnt like the music i liked then i wouldnt like them but this i have discovered to be very stupid. all music has its place and i dont really have an album tester to speak of.

Too many.

One's friends are not everyone's friends, though. Just because your friends are musically narrow minded, it doesn't mean that anyone else's friends are the same way. Again, the same can be easily said of a huge chunk of people into rock music. I find a lot of posters on here terribly narrow minded, when it comes to music.

Anyone who doesn't enjoy at least one song on this magnum opus has ears of cloth, and smells of Marmite.

I agree with this also, all of my friends are divided into these seperate subcultures when it come's to music taste's, but i can always hold a decent convosation with each of them as i know a bit about each genre.

That's why i don't have a 'tester' album, beacuse my friends are all into different types of music.

If my friends don't like Earth 2 or listening to the Merzbox all the way through, I kill them and eat them.

Ah! This one time I sat in on my friend's film class at Irvine Valley College while they were watching Easy Rider and this typical know-nothing neo con idiot whined about the drug trip scene. I almost told him off but, like I said, I was just sitting in.

yeah, especially the ones who are into stuff I've never heard of and know I wouldn't like.

a fan of TJAMC is a friend of mine although this one works too:





one of my wife's friends had a Love & Rockets t-shirt on when I met him. I said "Hi, you're my new best friend".

also on the list: any dancehall reggae

You just named off three of my favorite things. Awesome.
I question anybody that doesn't like The Residents at least a little bit.

Ohhhh!! Look who's replied to my post! Hello Andrew!! How's it going?

Not bad, Hank.

I know I've waffled on about this before, but I have a real problem with the batty-boy murdering lyrics of some dancehall. If someone told me that, for example, T.O.K.'s "Chi Chi Man" had great words, then they'd be on my shit-list forever.

you are totally right, and I cannot respect someone who preaches "one love" in one breath and then turns right around and condones beating / killing gays the next.

however, like all genres, you have your good and your bad.

personally, I like the rasta stuff more than the music made by gangstas, but Jamaican culture does tend to swing to the extremely homophobic (this is exacerbated by lower standards of education).

either way, "rapping" (successfully) at 140 bpm takes skill.


PS: I have no idea who/what T.O.K. (or a Chi Chi Man) is. my collection is fairly old.

no, that's silly, but i have never met a person who didn't like early misfits stuff (danzig era) so if i met someone like that i'd be... intrigued.

rock n roll is world music. ALL music is world music. it is made in the world.
"world music" as a genre is a bullshit catch-all for anything not made by white people. It is a dumb term.

I think I was being "tested" a couple weeks ago at a dinner with some of my wife's work acquaintances. They knew I had a rep as a music snob and am opening a record store, so they brought out what they thought was some edgy stuff--old albums by the Roches and an a capella group called the Nylons. I thought I'd barf. But I kept my cool and politely nodded, and murmurred little nothings like, "Hmm. Yes. I see. Really?"

The same occurs in film, where 'World Cinema' refers to any film made outside of Western Europe and the USA. It also gives special emphasis to films that adopt certain native 'folk' traditions. It's a double-edged sword. It promotes a nation's films but imposes constraints on the types of films that are produced. Many countries churn out pseudo-folk films to satisfy a Western idea of what that nation 'is'.

Most of the big-name directors in 'World Cinema' are far more popular in the West than they are in their own countries.