The long awaited second installment of Tins drummer Dave Muenter's "Ask Dave" Series is finally here. The guy has been kind of busy, so let's give him a little break.
Question - What kinds of music genres do you like?
Dave - Remember when you went on your first date in middle-school? You were wearing too much of your dad's cologne, your date's parents dropped the both of you off to see a PG movie starring Tom Arnold, and at one point, you were just sitting and talking before the previews. What did she ask you to find out what you had in common? I'll tell you...
First it was,
“What is your favorite Sour Patch Kid?”
And second, after you say, “the red ones” and there is a long pause, she asks:
“What kind of music do you like?”
Yes, “what kind of music do you like”... What kind of music DO you like (biotch)? The international question to ask when you have nothing else to talk about before the age of fifteen. It's that purity in a child that makes music so powerful. However, as most people who are associated with this blog can tell you, if you can only enjoy listening to one genre (ex. Country, Pop, Latin, Alternative Rock), then you have an underdeveloped musical brain... much like a middle-schooler.
A great song is a great song. It doesn't matter if it is on top 40 radio (like “Pumped up Kicks”), or a classical masterpiece (like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony), or a Bizarre yet new experience (like "15 Step" by Radio Head), or anything from the Beatles catalog.
Great may be interpretive, but one who has listened to a vast array of music will appreciate something intriguing... and recognize genius. It is unfortunate, and disgusts me, to see someone who likes all kinds of bad music from one genre, as opposed to listening to great music from many genres. Let's take a rock lover for instance. He will listen to Nickleback, The Foo Fighters, and Nirvana. He will not be able to tell the difference between the three. To see the complete superiority of Nirvana over the other two... because he has a baby's musical mind... (The Foo are great though btw).
I personally “lean” towards Indie as far as contemporary music goes. Indie to me just means it is weird. Different. Which I like. Not just independent from a record label (this is obviously no longer the case). You can have rap that is Indie, pop that is Indie, Rock... Why listen to the same old crap that has been done better twenty years earlier (like a lot of mainstream pop)?
So, if someone asks you “what kind of music do you like?” Either:
a) Don't talk to them. They don't know music.
b) Really don't talk to them if they are in middle-school you creep!
c) Show them the light... great music of all varieties should be appreciated.
Also, I really hate Country
~dm
The Tins - White Out by weallwantsome1
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