re: The National

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I disagree with pretty much all of that, but music is subjective and as much as I love them, I can see the DPlan not being someones cup of tea.

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For sure

My issue with most of the music beloved on here that I "don't get" is that it's just generally unpleasant for me to listen to. It's almost like the goal is to make music that isn't radio friendly, lacks melodic qualities and won't ever be called "catchy."

If it's disjointed, inconsistent, discordant, weird for the sake of being weird, etc. - I just don't like it. And I think that's a fairly objective take, but I'm interested in how you'd think about stuff like that. Do you listen to those Dismemberment Plan songs and go "man, this sounds great" and it gets stuck in your head all day? Or do you listen to it and go "this is different, it's not like most stuff I hear, it's unique, I like it"?

I'm not attempting to be critical, my point is that it's hard to tell whether people like different things in music, or if they hear things entirely differently, if that makes sense.