I played this at work the other day for some reason

I played this at work the other day for some reason.

It only took 10 minutes for my boss to ask what the fuck we were listening to and then demanding I change it to something else.

Anyone else here revealed their autism to their co-workers?

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played summertime clothes around normies once and got laughed at

>tfw your music taste is constantly validated on this board
>tfw out in public people laugh at your taste in music and worry about your mental health

Really makes you think

indeed. it does.

Indeed. it does.

just don't play any post-rock in your life ever to anyone at all. I've played Grandaddy at work and someone said it sounded like Disneyland, that's about it

idgi this album is basically easy listening, it's not like you were cranking out Cop or Napalm Death

our workforce is crawling with Sup Forumsdrones
i can't trust anybody no more

Just play pop music you can stand at work and around people. I play cheesy 80s pop

I find it impressive people who have no clue about music have so little tolerance for music they dislike. I hate most of what I listen to but I don't chimp out about it, yet every time I play something, a minute in I'm already being asked to play something else

Maybe it's because this album sucks

>not listening to modern synthpop
it's both decent music AND normie friendly, you can't go wrong

talked about this to one of my colleagues and since then i've been "that collapsing house guy"

>tfw work in a casino.
>music played on the floor is a mix of pop top 40 60s-today.
>fellow dealers don't even know who The Doors were.
I've lost hope in humanity.

This is a truly good question.
I think maybe it's because they're faggots who cannot stand to be out of their comfort zone.

only MBV adventures i mean
>wtf user why do u listen to emo music

I tell people I don't like music. It's a bit of a cop-out but it works every time. Much better than having to explain what slowcore is.

holy fuck

I've got a story, I told it on Sup Forums about a year and half ago but have tried repressing the memory since

>At work tidying up the store with co-workers at the time
>Manager usually lets us play music on the loud speaker. Although i never do
>Co-worker "user you never put your music on"
>I laugh and try and try and joke it off
>Next thing i know 10 of my co-workers chanting "Put your music on!"
>I finally submit and walk to the loud speaker and plug in my phone
>Don't know what to put on and just put on shuffle
>I walk back to where i was with my co workers about a 2 minute and a half walk from the loud speaker.
>First song is fine
>The second song though....
>I listen i hear the radio sample..."Jeromes Dream" i said to myself.
>I know what's coming
>I start walking fast Co workers saying "where's user going?"
>It's a battle with time at this point
>Suddenly the loud guitars come in Co-workers shouting "What the fuck is this shit?"
>The screaming comes in i hear laughs from across the store "Is that a fuckin' chicken lol" i hear.
>Finally get to my phone and unplug it from the loud speaker in embarrassment.
>Continue to hear laughs from across the store and warehouse
>Get back co-workers laughing
>"user i didn't know you were one of those goths" "I BET HE BITES BATS HEADS OFF LIKE THAT GUY OZZY OSBOURNE LOL"
>I just stand in silence ashamed
>Co-worker put his phone on loud speaker Iggy Azalea - Fancy plays.
>Known as the "Goth" guy to this day despite not resembling one at all.

The cursed song

youtube.com/watch?v=O7Fr6qH6t-U

Jesus fucking christ dude

In all fairness, half my music involves screaming vocals and heavy instrumentation and I think that song is fucking ridiculous.

...

I really dont see the big deal. Why didny you just shurg, say its only 3 minutes, the riffs are good. I found it interesting and different, etc. Unplugging the phone and acting in shame is fucking weird.
My last job I would put on grouper and blast it. I'd put on philip glass akhnaten album. Or something from the Prologue label, or blast Godspeed. Sometimes Id put on Stars of the Lid. People just listened b/c after the comments theyd have no choice but to listen, and some people ended up liking the stuff i played. Daphne Orams Public dreams and Private nightmares was bought by another coworker who showed it to a lot of his friends.
So it goes man, and so do we.

How? I can understand maybe not knowing their members or what music they play, but actually never having HEARD of The Doors astounds me.

I'm socially autistic and used to extremely lack confidence.

Because people are sanctimonious about music for some odd reason, no matter their actual interest

I guess at that last job it helped there were a few other autists about. One has a cassette collection and showed me sonic youth, which i loved.
People do get weirded out though when you play things they have never heard of.
Once at a construction job a guy was playing pandora on some kind of country hip hop mix channel, where it was country music with rap beats. He asked me if i wanted to play anything so i said ok and put it on a stars of the lid channel. A few minutes in he asked, very offended, "What the hell IS THIS?" He couldnt wrap his mind around something that wasnt smothered with stale stock beat samples and mindless lyrics with a simple rhyming tune.
It is funny to watch their initial reactions.
I cant quite put my finger on what makes us different.

Who gives a shit what other people think about your music taste ????

Yeah this


Take the gripspill do crazy shit nothing matters

Recently found out about post-rock only maybe 2 months ago. Is it widely received as consistently good music?

It's just not always that easy. There is a large gap between lyrical music and instrumental music. You have to have a certain level of understanding and appreciation for music to develop an ear for instrumental music.
Whenever I show people some of my favorite albums, bands, songs, etc., I typically get 'when are the vocals coming in?' 'is there really no singing at all?' 'this music just sort of drones on user..' That last one, someone said it about the song The Great Plains by STS. Which is prime prog, nothing slow moving and massive like Astralia or hubris.
It hurts knowing the only real way someone else will like the music you do is if they sit and listen to it for themselves.

People become offended almost when it doesnt take or adhere to the nomal song structure of radio hits.
Again as i said in an earlier post, im not quite positive what makes us different. More imagination?

itt: people with no zero social awareness
this just doesn't apply to music only you fucking retards.

if i started talking about professional tennis at work majority of not all my co-workers would tell me to stfu and talk about nfl or college football.

> You have to have a certain level of understanding and appreciation for music to develop an ear for instrumental music.
no you fucking don't. every god damn normies love the shit out of hans zimmer's shitty ass film scores. because he introduced to them thru a massive pop culture films

>Again as i said in an earlier post, im not quite positive what makes us different. More imagination?
I think experience is the #1 thing. Most people just don't care, they want background noise and nice singing or whatever. For example, have you ever tried using Linux or some complicated distro? Linux enthusiasts would tell you it's amazing, it's great, you get all the control over your computer as opposed to Windows or Mac. But most people just won't care. Not the best example, I know, but most people don't "listen" to music, it's just noise and entertainment to pass time.

Why do you care so much about how you are perceived?

because unlike you neets. if you want a pay raise at your job. you need fucking social skills to rank up. its half about how good you are and majority about how your bosses and co-workers feel about you.

post examples pls

feel sorry for you my man

Ah yeah thats a good point, the same way I'll typically use the internet to learn or discuss something, but I see a lot of people with their phones just opened up to facebook...just scrolling mindlessly. They arent even having fun, it seems more of an addiction to scrolling through a vast torrent of data.

Idk what normies you're hanging around, but, at their absolute zenith, the people I'm around MIGHT have a videogame OST song or two in their playlist. And if it's anything else instrumental, it's typically beat-tapes or piano. Only my non normie friends have scores they enjoy and listen to. And desu, two of them are major film buffs.

My honest thought is more patience. But more imagination isn't far off either, imo. Lyrics are fairly concrete, pee set imagery which fits over commonly felt emotions. Whereas instrumentals have very little moldings, and tap raw emotion which spawns as whatever you see in your mind. Far more intimate; even regardless of lyrics relating specific emotions.

Only the first wave (Talk Talk, Slint, Bark Psychosis, Swans) and part of the second (GY!BE). Third wave is mostly trash crescendocore except for some original artists like Matryoshka or World's end Girlfriend, which arent even really post-rock

>, but, at their absolute zenith, the people I'm around MIGHT have a videogame OST song or two in their playlist.
i guarantee you normies will never complain if you play this shit in front of them
youtube.com/watch?v=RxabLA7UQ9k

>be me
>appreciate noise but true love for post-rock/psychedelic mostly
>often brag about my love for noise and harsh-noise for lulz
>People get very weirded out
>often try to reject me at first
>Later they discover I'm human too
>accept me
>I still taunt them when they talk about objectively bad music
>get away with it because they don't understand my views on music anyway.

That's my general attitude in life. just don't take yourself or what you like too seriously.
I can befriend someone while they accept me as who I am. Interaction with people become also more interesting because you can insult/taunt them on their taste as they do on yours.
And this is especially funny when you're defending Merzbow against some random untalented rapper using autotune. The usual normie will get so confused. I have actually won some of these arguments. not by making the normie like merzbow but simply letting him so confused, without argument and probably a bit triggered on the way.

But that's exactly how I got into instrumental music in the first place. And whenever I'm talking with coworkers snout the rap and shit that they play, they even tell me they mostly like the beats and rhythms. So it really amazes me that people will listen lyrical music about bullshit for the beats, but won't listen to INSTRUMENTAL music for the same purposes.
I also partially believe it's because those people aren't entirely comfortable in their minds, and are uneasy with music they isn't quite literally talking to them.

>its half about how good you are and majority about how your bosses and co-workers feel about you
You suck at math.

t.autist

Has happened countless times.
"user has an absolutely shit taste"
"what the fuck is this"
I hate normies

>I also partially believe it's because those people aren't entirely comfortable in their minds, and are uneasy with music they isn't quite literally talking to them.
tbf thats everybody. we would all go mad if we didn't have somebody to talk to for least a month.
try cutting contact from the world with no internet and just staying in your room all day. you would lose it

you seem confused and in a dark place my brother. I hope you will one day find your way out.

When it's good it's great, but a lot of it is very, very dull. Even the core bands that popularized the genre (Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Pos) have a lot of filler.
Best post rock: Godspeed, Do Make Say Think, Talk Talk (Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock), Sigur Pos (Ageatis Byjrun and Untitled), Mogwai - Young Team through to Mr Beast are all pretty solid, Explosions - Those Who Tell the Truth....., This Will Destroy You, recent Swans, early ISIS (post metal), Bark Psychosis.

Third Wave isnt all crescendo core, and even some of the crescendo core is good

They really will man, the people I'm around. Not quite in the same ballpark (bust close), I played this song once, and it was quickly complained at for being boring and I was asked to change it. I just don't understand because its beautiful.

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so much truth in this post it gave me chills.
Really.

t. smug little cunt
nice trips though

>just threw on shuffle
>not preparing a safe playlist for these moments

"how is this even a song"

But there are always people to talk to, you know? Even online. Your mind is a sanctuary, there's no good reason to be uncomfortable in there. Talk to people if you want conversation and comfort; listen to music if you want tranquility and balance. That balance us only found with raw music, no words.

Bah, I'm just a traditionalist and a loner. My two cents doesn't matter in this world.

>My two cents doesn't matter in this world.
It's supposed to be:
My two cents don't matter in this world.

you really gotta stop learning about psychoanalysis thru wikipedia my man.

>Boss makes fun of my musical taste
>I like Death Grips, Oneohtrix, Godspeed You (ect.)
>his taste is "superior"
>Just nod my head and smile, he pays me
>I quit eventually

Example of one of his favorite songs unironically, listen to music like this almost everyday at work.
youtube.com/watch?v=gDC8p8LHNgY&list=PLEAC2EC10D997FE12&index=2

death grips has fucked me so many times

I don't study psychoanalysis and I certainly wouldn't do it through Wikipedia man

>There aren't any words, how can you sing along to this? It isn't even a song.

REEEEE where the fuck did this meme come from and why is it so widespread in the land of normies

i'm pretty secretive about the music i play simply because i know damn well i'll get the same reaction

Fucking kek

people aren't interested in music as an art form. they use it to color their social lives. most things you can't tap your foot to are hated just for being harder to listen to

that's why i don't take them seriously, i view them as animals, and their behaviour in groups as an animal behaviour

if you let them walk on you, you will be torn apart

people usually think it's cool that i like tons of music

Of course its common sense not to go on a tangent about something you're interested in if the other person has no interest.

But if you're just going to stay on "safe" topics out of fear of the consequences, not only are you a pussy, but you barely qualify as a man.

PS.
How does it feel to kiss your bosses ass and get no respect in return?

played nmh red house painters some slint mbv, chicks wanted my dick afterwards

user gets it

you're the normie you fuck

Grimes desu. Or john maus if u nasty.

>Puts on american football
>Never Meant
>"hey, user, that was pretty good."
>the rest of the album plays
>"Where are the words user?"

One thing for sure is that no one likes listening to orchestral music during manual labor. Got chewed the fuck out for "harps n shiet" when I used to move houses.

indeed. it does.

>Shuffling rap playlist at work to be as normie friendly as possible
>Runaway comes on
>Isn't this song like 7 minutes?
>HOLY SHiT 7 MINuTes?? Turn this shit off user!

classical fm is the only clear station i can get at work, and it isn't half bad, but opera is total shite

Nahh, I've got loads of mates into post-rock.
Even had a bunch of mates start a couple of post-rock bands because I introduced them to it.
You've just gotta show them the more upbeat math rock/post-rock stuff to ease them in as it's a bit more accessable than a 25 minute drone tune.

still depends on the vibe. Once i got a friend into godspeed when he was smoking and playing GTA V. At the end of every crescendo he basically died and the whole thing was always accidentally on perfect time with the music so he fell in love it.
People without imagination will have trouble filling in the blacks with long movement pieces bc they cant imagine a story, where never taught how or forgot how. But playing during an activity they see the light of it.

indeed. it does.

Yeah, when I was 15 or so, oh my god... I was trying to obtain good taste in music, and I got a bunch of CDs for Christmas like Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Do Make Say Think, and My Bloody Valentine. I did like these albums, appreciated them, but it was a little forced, as hopefully it always is when you're trying to broaden your artistic horizons. Anyway, my aunt was having us for New Year's, a few states north, so we drove up there, and for some reason I brought a shoebox packed with every CD I own. We were only going to be there for the weekend. I can see now, looking back, that a big part of my personality was (and still is to some extent) the desire to have people think I had good taste in art. I brought the shoebox full of CDs to show off. That's not even the embarrassing part. The embarrassing part is that (this is hard to type) my aunt whose house we went to, she's a pretty woman and a serious painter, and the only person in my family who I thought might have a sophisticated artistic sense. So what I did was, while she was in the kitchen talking to my mom and while my dad was standing outside the kitchen clutching a beer and bullshitting with some guy I didn't know, and while other people were milling about, I asked her if I could put some music on. She said sure. I went to the stereo, put Godspeed You! Black Emperor's "Lift Yr. Skinny Fists" in the CD tray and adjusted the volume so that it wasn't too loud, but loud enough for the sound to enter the kitchen. I was hoping that my aunt would hear the music, be intrigued, and come out of the kitchen and ask me about it. This was how I imagined it. I realize almost immediately that I've made a mistake. It doesn't sound right, not the right vibe, what was I thinking? Halfway through the first track, I turn it off. My aunt is still in the kitchen talking and laughing, not paying any attention, and the guy talking to my dad, when he hears the music stop, sees it was me who turned it off and says "Thank you."

This physically made me cringe.

Ouch. Last summer I worked at a farm that made our produce into pizzas. One day the owner was late, so I put on some Do Make Say Think and tended the bar, was talking to people, I thought DMST added to the vibes really well. The owner got back, unplugged my phone and said, "At least you played......something," as he started his typical Bob Dylan playlist.

Some music is better through headphones than speakers, I guess. Like Pretend, I would never play them over speakers to anyone.

Another story. Same era.

Playing "Pet Sounds" for my mom and my sister in the car.

MOM: This is The Beach Boys?
SISTER: It sounds like Christmas music.
MOM: Let me see the CD. [Turns it over] I don't recognize any of these songs and I grew up in the 60s. "Help Me Rhonda," "California Girls," those are the hits.
ME: This is the good Beach Boys album.
MOM: I don't see anything good.
SISTER: It sounds like Christmas music.
ME: This is when Brian Wilson started taking LSD.
MOM: Yeah, it sounds like it.
SISTER: It sounds like Christmas music.

>Play some Fleetwood Mac
>What the fuck user this sounds like what my mum and dad would listen to
>o-oh ok s-sorry
>they put their shit on
>I sit their quietly and let them play it

indeed. it does.

>shut up BITCH

How did your mom not recognize Wouldn't it be Nice

>playin vidya with college roommates and their friends
>bluetooth speaker
>play Fugazi
it's not that hard, boyos

Indoes. It deed.

I played doc watson's listening to the rain and everyone liked it

Year after high school, friend throwing a party, at his house in the afternoon, helping him set up. "You got any rap?" he asks me. I look on my iPod. Ah, Public Enemy, Scaruffi said it's the best rap album ever. Surely this is what he's looking for. I put it on. After two tracks, he tactfully says to me, "I was looking for something more recent? that people could dance to, y'know?" Oh right, of course, obviously he wasn't looking for political 80s rap. Felt like a moron.

If you find the music you listen to """""hard""""" to listen to, than you are just being a hipster snowflake, s lot of people don't like bluegrass but it just isn't their taste they don't say its hard and shit, but bluegrass is top tier and its just plane fun no need to be special snowflake to enjoy

I've blasted everything from Weezer, Bones, Lil Peep, Issues, XXXtentacion, Between the Buried and Me, Genesis, Yes, ELP, Chvrches, Code Orange, Death Grips, Emmure, King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Slug Christ, or literally anybody else I feel like listening to.

Lot of the younger kids like the meme rap and the older dudes like the prog, mostly no one ever comments unless they like it.

indeed. it does.

wtf fleetwood mac rules. I guess it depends on your taste but anyone should be able to appreciate "Go Your Own Way".

to be fair no one can't listen to 7 min of rap

It was Rumours as well, it's not exactly some experimental noise rock screamo with psychadelic rap or some shit.

My friends are just pleb and didn't want to listen to anything older than 3 years old because old music is immediately bad. Especially when icky parents migh have listened to it ewwww