yeah some(ok most ) of my firends are pretty clueless also about my music
[Edited 6/11/07 19:48pm]

The race comments on taste of music is disgusting, what the fuck is this 1950? Damn.

minneapolisgenius said:

It's just a great song. My friend's immediate reaction was, "I can't get into punk rock!" But he was laughing the whole time it was playing.

weepingwall said:

I played My Bloody Valentine for a co-worker once and she asked me if the tape was warped.

sextonseven said:

I was really obsessed with Loveless for quite a few years in the mid-nineties. I made copies for pretty much every person I knew at one point - I'd slap the cassette into their hand and say 'you have to listen to this!' Almost everybody enjoyed it, though, or at least they felt obligated to humor me enough to tell me they found it interesting.

Funny Weepingwall used the phrase whale music, though. I don't play music at work during the day, but I usually stay late and I'll often play a few songs once I'm sure almost everyone's cleared out of the building. I've been red-hot on the band Flying Saucer Attack lately - they have quite a bit of MBV-style noise to their sound, though they've got a touch of cocteau-twin-ambient-style prettiness to them as well. I started to play one of their albums last night, and I kept nudging up the volume because they're really one of those bands that don't sound quite right unless it's reasonably loud, loud enough to make a physical impact, I'd say. It got to the point where it was pretty damned loud - certainly loud enough that you'd have to speak at a high volume to make yourself understood. Unknown to me, one of the controllers was still in his office - he came running into my office and yelled "what the fuck is this whale music bullshit you're listening to? I thought there was a swarm of bees loose in the office or something..."
[Edited 6/13/07 19:06pm]

heartbeatocean said:

It's on Guitar Hero 2.

This is a very interesting topic! I'm loving the responses.

Believe it or not, I don't go out of my way to introduce my friends to my music. I'm kinda-sorta in my own world, into my own particular headtrip.

I only really talk about music to people that care about music on whim and in that case I casually namedrop something like if we're on the subway and they want to listen to my iPod they can scroll through and we can chit-chat about it, share earbuds or what not, I don't go out of my way.

I don't feel like spelling out Slagsmålsklubben to people on a napkin. lollll

But I LOVE getting introduced to music by friends. I think that's really cool.
[Edited 6/14/07 8:31am]

AnckSuNamun said:

It IS? How odd.

damosuzuki said:

I used to stay late and play CDs at work after everyone left too. Once a co-worker came back into the office late to pick something up after going to a bar and there I am blasting Olivia Newton John.

Now I use headphones.

sextonseven said: