Do you generally give a honest opinion to someone when it comes to their music?
 

Poll.

definately yes

No lies please.

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its pretty rare that I think something really sucks through and through. of course if I dont like the whole concept of it and I like the person then I tend to talk about the good parts when being asked. but if someone asks me about a particular part, my opinion will be honest, everything else would be just wrong, I think

Do you always expect people to tell you exactly what they thing about your own music, or you just prefer them to be polite about it all? I mean, saying nothing sometimes is best, but in certain situations it can also come accross as a cowardly thing to do.

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i get asked quite often to give a straightforward opinion on muzak.
If i like it i say so; if i don't then i don't answer. It's mean to say it sucks + i don't have the monopoly of good taste.

Depends on what honest opinion means. I'm tactful, mostly. Listening to a friend's stuff recently, I was genuinely impressed with the hi-hat sound, and the snare sounded great. Additional to that, I thought it was doing nothing but adding to the shitpile of shit that clouds all that is right and holy about music, but I didn't tell them that bit.

I try not to lie, and luckily most people are smart enough/ too stupid to realise that my talking about objective facts of recording are my way of saying I don't like things.

It's difficult though - obviously, I'm aware of the fact a lot of the time that whatever my opinion is doesn't make a band better or worse. I could hear the very best 4th-wave Grunge band years before anyone else, and I'd still think it was shit.

That's a more difficult one. I think a lot of people have a hard time listening to music that's of a sort they've not come across before; I think there's an equal amount of musicians who don't realise that the reason people don't like their music isn't because they haven't found the audience for it yet, it's because it's shit.

Of all the reactions I've had to my music, the one that hurt the most was the one that said it sounded like Godspeed. The guy who refused to be in the same room as it made me very happy.

That has nothing to do with having any monopoly on anything. If you are asked what you think about genocide by someone you like, you're not going to tell them that you don't know enough of it to make a comment, do you?

when i am not being asked then I only say something if I like it, If I dont like it then why waste the energy for it?
but when I am asked I am honest, but its always a matter of taste when it comes to music and if I got the feeling that the other person doesnt think that way, then I tell that too, what he or she makes out of it isnt my problem.
and yes if I ask somebody about something I did I expect honesty, if i got the feeling afterwards that it wasnt honest at all I wont ask them in the future.
like you said somewhere here before, no matter what anybody says you wont stop making the stuff you do, and I think thats right in every way. so why lying? it would be a loose loose situation

what are you voting for sarram?

Compare what's comparable.
Are you comparing a demo CD with the holocaust?

With a band that consists of three of my closest friends; Legion - Guildford's answer to the dieing gothic rock scene, I am honest, but I avoid being brutal about it. I always tell them they right good tunes, because they really do, but I don't hesitate to tell them they are bearly original at all. This is the most important quality in music and art for me, and the though the frontman and 'bandleader' admits they're a regressive act, I just can't overlook they're rehashing the old formulas that made The Sisters Of Mercy, Rosetta Stone and the Nephilim decent bands back in the 80s.

This is the sort of thing that generally asks for a predictable answer, therefore it' better give none. And who was referring to the holocaust as such, anyway? There have been many other acts of genocide around the world.

Back to the matter at hand people...

Usually if I truely don't like it I don't reply(if on the internet).
If in person I just say it's not my thing.

I listened to yr music. it smells like zyklon b.

ha ha you fail!

The best personal example I can give is listening to my boyfriend's music.
I always tell him honestly what I feel. The majority of the time, he's
creating sounds that are at the very least interesting and worthy of
further time and effort, and I tell him so. If it's something weak, I'll
tell him that too.

The worst review is no review.

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yeah Porky is kinda cute.
hey you SPELL MY NAME THE RIGHT WAY
so you get one point.

I tell people honestly.

however, when one does not liek something it is much more polite to say "it is not my thing." than to berate someone for sucking.

there are very few bands that outright SUCK. ussually it is just not to my musical tastes.

One of my favourite things about seeing gigs with mates is that moment at the end of the gig when one of you turns around and goes "That was fucking AMAZING!" and the other turns around and goes "That was FUCKING SHIT" and then you laugh. Happy times.

One of my best friends fancies himself as a composer. And by this I mean he records himself playing horribly unimaginative Kerry King-style guitar solos and tries to justify them with theoretical bullshit. I never compliment him, but I never criticise either. It's not worth it.

Honestly, I rarely talk music with people in the real world. If it's a friend, sure I'll tell them the truth. Fuck them, they're a friend and I wouldn't be a friend if I just fed them shit all day. Besides, there is something bonding in jocular lampooning.

The only scenario I can picture is talking to a pretty girl and, of course, I'll bullshit her till we go to her place. Unless of course she has a taste for acidic brutality. Kinky minx.

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it depends on who it is, what the situation is and how much i have had to drink. there are times i hold my tongue and dont give an honest answer or just tell the other person that its not really my thing but there are also times i just flat out say something is bad. its suprising how many people become massively insulted if you you speak your opinion about music.

I just try to avoid the chance of having to explain what music I listen to, especially if they won't know the band names.

nope.

I've never known anybody who makes music I like, and so have lied repeatedly.

I like how you've deftly covered up your seething jealousy of your best mate, Chris Rea.

road to hell, what a number!

Yes, and I try to be nice, but I usually transform into a snobbish indie bitch or so they say. If dude likes Coldplay it's serious.

if it's a hot chick then sure, i can pretend to kinda enjoy even something i despise..

but if it's just an idiot who likes dream theater then i'm like, fuck off noob i don't wanna be friends with you!

I rarely tell the truth to anyone about anything. Right now my flatmate thinks that I think his shitty film-school film is 'excellent' which, if I meant it, would put it on par with Taxi Driver in my mind (under the category of ‘excellent films’).

I suppose its just judging things relatively, i.e., last Christmas my grandma knitted me this purple cardigan and I was impressed that a nearly-blind woman, working on her own, could knit something so accomplished-looking (no holes, loosely fitted). It seemed great but implicitly I was actually thinking it was great-for-her - there are probably better cardigans that cost a couple of quid from the market. I think it’s all about the implicit 'for-them'. That film-school film is genuinely shit though, I’m going to tell him to his face, the wanker (he stole some of my bread).

taste is taste. in fact, i usually envy people who can just sit back with thier mainstream radio and television and be so complacent and not question anything. it's been quite the burden for me being interested in harmolodics, noise, atonality, free improvisation, free jazz, dissonance, grindcore, cock esp, industrial, dark ambient, drone, and the like. I'll never forget when I went on a date with a girl. The girl was named Maudie, total girl next door type; pretty, wholesome, wore dresses, didn't drink, smoke, use, or even drink coffee, hated loud music, and was basically the polar opposite of "my type", but I liked her. The whole night went great, untill she turned on my car cd player and I had forgotten to take Temple of Bon Matin's "Bullet into Mesmer's Brain", a minute into the song she thought I was legit insane, asked for a ride home, and never called back. Didn't phase me much, because I still know how rad Temple of Bon Matin is.

The point of this? We have no right telling anyone what they listen to is bad. It's thier choice. We all take our certain paths, and as shallow as it is, what we are into pop culture wise is a big part of our individuality in this society. Therefore, it would suck if everyone liked what you liked. Give me diversity, give me freedom, give me wierd.

I dissed my friend's sis's band once and she gave me hell for the whole week. Apparently Maximum Rock'n'Roll said they're the "second coming of The Descendants." They're pretty.. unextraordinary. You judge.

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I voted Yes, but I have to qualify it by saying my standards for people who are trying to make something are more open than my standards for those who have achieved "success" of some sort.

I've had some friends who made music that wasn't my scene at all, but I still encouraged them and pointed out the best parts while being honest that it wasn't my thing. Meanwhile, nearly all of my friends who've achieved some level of popularity have happened to make great music I thought deserved it.

I tend to seek out people who make the kind of music I love, so usually by the time I've bothered to get to know somebody, I know their music is great. Also, I've found that several people who I found I enjoy conversing with, coincidentally made awesome music they hadn't even told me about. That's happened with a couple people from this board, but it's also happened with an Australian guy I met on the Michael Moorcock board too.

I don't know what I do if I made friends with somebody and they turned out to be Eddie Vedder or Don Henley. That would really suck.