Edward, oh please!
Music works within a whole load of contexts and those contexts shift.
I'm constantly revising my opinion about stuff. Constantly being proved wrong about stuff.
really?
I don't relate to this at all. I just like it or i don't based on how it sounds and how that makes me feel. I don't see how someone else could "prove me wrong" about my opinion.
Of course it's true that *I* change over time and therefore become open to new things and bored of others. I guess that's what your 2nd sentence above says.
Having said that I'm still waiting for my Dubstep epiphany (it'd be sooooo much easier to just like it) and it never seems to happen....
Don't be surprised if it doesn't. Why should it?
Just cos other people like something, why should you?
I know you're only joking I suppose...
Big regret - when I was about 22 I decided that music should be "serious" and got rid of loads of my uk hardcore rave records :-(
By the time I was 27 I wished I still had them, of course they cost a lot more to buy now!
This was an example of me "thinking" about music instead of feeling it. I liked cheesy hardcore but thought I shouldn't and that "proper techno" was more worthy.
Much happier to not give a shit and turn of my thinking brain and just let my feet and emotions decide.