tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post4715513507692395373..comments2024-01-23T17:14:04.067-05:00Comments on Jaltcoh: Does, or should, your taste in music express your personality?John Althouse Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11703450281424023177noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-30912193657407550422010-09-01T14:00:53.127-04:002010-09-01T14:00:53.127-04:00"Jazz" is so wide a category as to be us..."Jazz" is so wide a category as to be useless. Glenn Miller's and John Zorn's music have very little in common: Miller's is more like Vivaldi's or Phil Collins's, Zorn's is more like Stockhausen's or Sonic Youth's.LemmusLemmushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00917054221547240969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-46614242525858215412010-09-01T10:43:49.674-04:002010-09-01T10:43:49.674-04:00People often love music that's the opposite of...People often love music that's the opposite of their lives. The songs fulfill a longing for what the listener doesn't have, but has heard about. In the pre-Beatles era, teenagers in old-style gangs (rumbles, bicycle chains, switchblades) used to stand on the corner singing romantic doo-wop about their "babies." (Actually, they often did have "babies," but they didn't have the lives of sweetness and ease the songs implied.) Nowadays, suburban white teenagers living completely safe, privileged lives blast hip-hop from the SUVs their daddies bought them. Thus, young men who are "delicate things" try to toughen themselves with heavy metal.Richard Lawrence Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951947957345891398noreply@blogger.com