Some drone I like, some I pretty actively dislike. Tony Conrad really grates with me, I can't find any musicality in his work whatsoever, but there is plenty of guitar-based drone (Phill Niblock, Rafael Toral, Keith Fullerton Whitman) that I fnd quite beautiful. It also depends on the tone of the drone - bassy drones don't do much for me, and so a lot of heavy-metal type drone loses my attention quite quickly. Harmonic layering goes down very well with me too.
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