Could you love someone who didn't love Sonic Youth?
 

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Yeah, I am with someone right now who despises them. But I don't care about that, I despise Bono, so we are even.

Nah. Poll?

No poll, polls don't provoke discussion.

How about you spectral can you be with someone who didn't like Sonic Youth?

I'll provoke you!

I think you can have different taste in music and still fall for each other. I never got that whole I like everything you like, don't get me wrong it is nice to have some music in common. But for me music is my thing not the other, if they don't like it that is fine. With my boyfriend, his thing is movies, while my thing is music and we are just fine like that. So what i am trying to say, is that I don't need to have anything in common with someone to be able to fall in love with.

I could someone in love with someone you don't love Sonic Youth, but music is my life, so I think I couldn't fall in love with someone that would have really different musical tastes. For instance, the last girl I fell in love with listened to Jeff Buckley, Eels, and loved the bands I made her discover (Redjetson, Boards Of Canada, Slowdive...).

I think because music is such an important part of my life, it'd be important to me to have someone who had similar taste. I think people's taste reveals a lot about their personality.

I've tried and it hasn't worked. How can I love someone who doesn't love wailing blasts of guitar noise and energy, and intense melodic and dissonant contrasts? That's who I am as a person. To me that is like trying to love a republican or a scientologist. They just see the world and beauty in a completely different way than I do.

How can you relate to someone without some shared perspectives?

Yes, I could. I don't believe in the whole "music is my life" philosophy. Reminds me of elitist hipster types that diss people behind their back for liking some band. I never advocate insulatory thinking. Hell, my brother was never much of a Sonic Youth fan apart from Daydream Nation even though he was the one that turned me on to them. It hasn't been until now that I've began to start bringing him over with Trees Outside and Sonic Nurse from his cynical opinion of the youth.

I hear pbradley secretly listens to a very un-indie band. Fellow hipsters, we must discuss this at the next meeting.

I only love people that are exactly like me.

Yes, but they would probably have to be very interested in music. Not exactly the same music as me, but it'd be good if we could turn each other onto different music.

yes. now if it was minor threat then i don't know. actually, i prefer them to have somewhat similar interests but i don't care that much.

How dull.

I don't want someone just like me, but I have this philosophy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioiv2IGRcVY

I could understand if a girl wasn't a big fan of hardcore punk that I liked.

But I pretty much consider people who feel nothing when listening to Sister and Evol to be inhuman. (no, not you Rob!)

I agree wholly.

yes.

well, i can see them not liking anything before daydream nation or goo as much as hardcore punk. evol and sister are still pretty abrasive to the "normal" music listener.