The Influence of blogs on your musical taste

[summerdaze]

how do blogs influence the music you listen to?

 

[summerdaze]

alright so it's blogs and friend's but more often that not it's blogs and magazines.

 

[CouttsClient]

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[Mandrake9072]

I wouldn't say that blogs influence my opinion in any way, but they certainly do open me up to new bands/albums that I wouldn't otherwise listen to. Same with forums.

I also do read up about bands on Wikipedia quite often to dig deeper into discog

 

[MQuinlan]

The only way I "allow" blogs to influence my tastes in music is when I venture to the Hype Machine (http://hypem.com/). When it's not just 1 blogger's sole and often skewed opinion but instead going a bit more by the reaction of the masses, at least I can expect I'll listen to generally good music.

 

[otc]

Listening to the weekly podcast of WBEZ's Sound Opinions show has definitely had an effect.

Beyond introducing me to things I haven't heard, I think the biggest effect has been hearing commentary from a pair of people from another generation who are still very much involved with current music. It brings a wealth of knowledge that isn't typically found in people my age or in many older people who have stopped keeping up with the times.

 

[chet31]

None. Nobody is ever going to 100% agree with my taste in music, so why not just play what I like? By the same token, when someone else has their iPod going for cocktails or whatever, I like hearing what they like, not what they think everyone is going to like.