Quote Originally Posted by overgrowthegovt
Good points (but Plant rocks), but it's really not for anyone to tell anybody else what to listen to. I agree that musical exploration is a good idea, but it's none of my business if somebody only wants to listen to a single band. It does no harm to anybody else. I'd love to see everybody read Rimbaud's poetry, but most people just don't want to and I have no right to force them. I adhere to my tastes and if I don't like something, for whatever reason (justification is not required), I'm not going to listen to it for the sake of expansion. And please, I don't just listen to "bread and butter." I mean, who's heard of Country Joe and the Fish nowadays, let alone has heard all their albums?

And if instruments aren't being played, I'm not having any of it. Some call that narrow-mindedness; I call it obeying one's tastes, for one's own reasons.
Good points as well. I heard of Country Joe and the Fish but I realized I never heard one of their songs or at least recognize them. So I'm d/ling some of their stuff. I can't say anything haha.

You can't force anyone, some people are set in their ways and nothing anyone says can change that. In my case, if someone is like hey, this album is goddamn amazing you should listen to it, I most likely will because if it truly impacted them in some emotional way, surely you want to hear what it is all about.

Nor am I suggesting you only listening to bread and butter bands. IMO, you are open-minded about music and I'd never suggest to be any kind of snob when it comes to music. There's simply so many different styles that provoke different emotions, so many choices that you can't possibly digest it all and have protectionism over the choices you do digest. It's completely natural.

it's simply that most of the music that ended up being my favorites were suggested by other people. If their tastes match mine in some way, I'm going to highly value their input. Music exploration has to go at your own pace, centered around yourself, one genre of music provoke different emotions from person to person.