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Times you were given control of music in a car/at a party/social setting and what the results were in greentext format.
>it's the new year's eve of 2012
>everyone is drunk or high
>been playing music together with the host all night, mostly industrial, EBM and metal (I was into that at the time)
>host is so drunk that he is laying on the floor in his own puke
>I am also completely shitfaced, can hardly stand up straight
>realize the current playlist is about to end
>"hey you guys wanna hear an audio recording of a hippie tribe"
>host replies with "sure"
>manage to put on Cromagnon - Ritual Fest of the Libido after trying to type it for 2 minutes straight or so
>everyone slowly moves outside, except for the host and two guys on the couch who seemingly enjoy it
>have no friends
>have no social life
>get in my car
>give myself the aux cord
>play whatever I want without being judged
>really enjoy myself for the duration of car ride
>senior year party, 2013
>i'm mid-tier popular, comfortable in crowds
>one thing i am NOT comfortable with is social music
>"anon, what's some good dance music?"
>panic
>"Uhhh, Twisterella by Ride."
>Good start, crowd enjoys it
>remember that i have a playlist of jangle pop and similar genres
>let that play for a while
>suddenly hear the iconic drum fill from Only Shallow
>shit
>crowd immediately looks at me with the "wtf" look as vacuum esque guitars blast
>i try to change song
>accidentally turns up volume
>blows speakers
>asked to leave
this story is related to parties but not aux cord and whateaver.
>at parties talk about music with (for the lack of better word musical normie) friends and brothers
>they say some bullshit
>they cant correct them everytime for many reasons
>1- I am little shy
>2-They will think "wow, he is just trying to show off saying bullshit he knows nothing about, I cant be wrong this many times"
>3-Its something I know they are wrong, but I dont know the correct version of what they said or dont remember it. Once some girl said pink floyd was the first experimental band and I told her that now, that even on 50s and 60s some musicians did something called musique concrete. She looked at me with a weird face and asked "tell me one artist", and somehow I could just remember just one name and said ianni xenakis.
>since I dont correct what they say this means I agree with the info they believe
>everytime I will say something I must check if what I will say will not contradict "what I now, believe to be true "
>end most of the time speechless, because I can think fast enough for an alternative opinion that fits or sometimes cant even think about something
>try to introduce my sister and mom to the music I like
>play paranoid android
>have to pause song 2/3 of the way through once we get to the store
>resume it on the way back, the flow is ruined
>the solo part at the end comes on and they look at me almost shocked
I tried
>be at party
>they want me to put something on
>think "what the hell, mufags say that MPP is normiefriendly"
>put on summertime clothes
>whatthefuck.jpg
>they turn it off
never trust /mu/ again
>>65253611
jesus christ lol
>get drunk at friends house
>the drunker I get I start talking about how much I love the kinks
>nobody there understands or listens to the kinks
>end up listening to village green at 4 in the morning sloppy drunk by myself analyzing every Ray Davies lyric
>everyone loves the Beatles but the kinks are better
>>65253714
don't trust people that spend all day on the computer to know anything about socializing lol
>>65253138
Why the fuck would you drink so much alcohol that you can't even think ? How can anybody be that lacking in common sense or dignity ?
>>65253826
i won't ever again
>>65253236
nice
>>65253324
>implying mbv isn't socially acceptable pleb music
lol, you wish
>last thursday
>arranging thursdaypub at uni
>DJ isn't here
>I plug my phone in
>play music from my dank playlists for all the people there
>everyone loves it
>"this is much better than what DJ usually plays"
One time I played Strictly Personal by Beefheart at some frat members' house after they told me to put on whatever it was I was listening to (since I was an autist and put on one headphone to listen to different music rather than the music that was playing).
Some bitch started talking about how much she hated it to me and wouldn't quit even after I told her I don't even blame her
>>65253138
I just play normal music, aka rap music everyone loves that shit. White girls go crazy and almost everybody gets hype to Lord Pretty Flacko Jodye 2 to this day. The only songs I refuse to play are antidote and Work Remix. I aint tryna go that basic.
>>65253864
t. NEET
Leave your house a little more dude
>be out in the backyard smoking with my brother and cousin
>play basic hiphop bullshit
>stuff like drake, future, young thug, etc
>brother steps inside to start cooking
>cousin and I start playing snippets of metal back and forth
>he plays some generic metalcore shit
>I put on that full of hell and merzbow collab
>brother comes back out
>staring at us
>"the fuck kind of godzilla death screams are you two listening to"
>>65253611
r u old enough for this site
>>65253138
I once got so twisted that for a moment, I thought chiptune was good. I normally get high and drunk by myself so I play whatever I want, so for a brief moment in time I let my conscious slip and played Anamanaguchi for about 15 dudebros. After realizing my mistake I quickly grab my phone and play LUM which really didn't fit the mood but at least it bumped.
After I got home from that party I made a playlist specifically for parties, nothing too weird but nothing boring.
>>65253611
You are a genetic dead end
>>65254031
What does that have to do with it ?
My friends all know I don't usually listen to music that is suitable for parties and they're ok with that, so I'm never put in that awkward situation
>>65254114
Getting shitfaced is fun as fuck. It's what you do when you have friends and socialize. If you wanna live a boring life have fun, I won't stop you.
>>65254049
>r u old enough for this site
I am old enought to leave the site
30 years old
>>65253714
I've shown AnCo to plenty of friends before, and they all actually enjoyed it to my surprise. I would never play it in a big crowd where you don't know what to expect.
>>65253714
I dont know where this meme comes from. Ive tried introducing so many normies to MPP and they all hated it.
>>65254154
No, being a complete retard is not a lot of fun. I prefer to be able to think on at least a basic level when I'm conscious.
>>65254193
the only context in which MPP is accessible is when compared to stuff like Danse Manatee
>>65253714
>>65254159
>>65254193
It might depend on the song. Like, I wouldn't try to show someone Who Could Win A Rabbit or Alvin Row, but My Girls and Floridada might be more accessible.
>>65254039
>"anon i listened to the bandcamp link you sent me for this night and it sounds shit"
>go to nightclub
>"actually this night is fucking awesome"
great success
>>65254249
both My Girls and Floridada are impossible to dance to or play at parties
My Girls has a shit ton of time signature changes and Floridada is way too fast
>>65254249
Normies hate the first minute of my girls and dont have the attention spans for all the transitions in the beginning of mpp songs
>>65254224
I bet you have a lot of sex
>>65254249
I've shown the entirety of MPP to one friend who hadn't listened to much experimental music beforehand and he actually enjoyed it.
Another is just some black dude I've always been cool with, showed him Rosie Oh, Taste, and Fireworks and he liked them all.
I would normally try to avoid showing anything before SJ unless I know they would actually like it.
>with qt and friend doing 1/3 of acid
>"What's the heaviest shit you heard anon?" said qt
>put some Merzbow
>qt loves it
nailed
>>65253942
what did you play lol
>>65253611
None of this means anything.
>be me at chad's party
>be asked to play music from phone
>hesitant because it's full of grindcore and noise music.
>"oh come on, anon. it's just music, it ain't gonna kill anyone"
>plug phone in, set it to shuffle
>first song is "I Became A Counselor So I Could Tell Rape Victims They Asked For It"
J U S T
>>65254387
What gives you that idea ?
>In the car with two others, playing over shitty Bluetooth speaker using phones
>playing accessible stuff like Jamie XX and Washed Out
>get distracted, shuffle's on
>The Books starts playing, A Cold Freezin' Night
>Frantically change it, get questioned for it the rest of the car ride
On an unrelated note I also discovered my friend listens to Evanesence unironically
>>65255247
Pretty sure it was sarcasm
>>65254700
the best album to fuck a girl on acid is La Novia from AMT
>one of my roomies is about to go travel for 3 months
>we're all hanging out in the living room having a bit of wine
>guy who's leaving says he wants a proper party
>asks me to put some music on
>go for some Bohren & der Club of Gore to fuck with him
>few minutes pass, he asks for something more upbeat
>The Ventures - Changing Tides
>he keeps complaining and I keep playing mellow shit
>15 minutes later he walks out
>>65253138
everytime
>play good/decent music
>nobody speaks on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMAnCgjeZ4Q
>>60000000
>>65253611
I understand you
A friend put Yeezus at a party and everyone got pissed at it. I was laughing my ass off.
>ride with a friend and three chicks in the back
>everybody in the car knows that I'm into weird and not very accessible music
>"hey anon, play the most unlistenable thing on your ipod to us"
>put on Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
>everybody laughs and have a good time
>>65253138
>be at frat function
>typical house party, all chads and popular chicks
>went with popular roommate
>known as liking music, given aux cord to play some music off my phone.
>can't decide, put it on shuffle and walk away
>first song is sound of silence
>>65256862
Success?
>>65253611
Want to cure musical stupidity? Stop. Listen, share, appreciate. Let people be "dumb". Let yourself be dumb (you're not the smartest guy in the world no matter how much research you've done on music). Don't expect people to enjoy or appreciate the same sounds you do, that's just unrealistic and ridiculous.
Whether or not your friends' new musical experiences will be enjoyable (and how they will enjoy themselves) is up to various circumstances. My closest circle of friends tend not to enjoy music in the same way my closer relatives might. My friends see music as background noise or something to trip out to, whereas my relatives see it as something much greater and enriching. Music pulls my friends around (the mood of the song easily impacts their own mood), but my relatives make the music match their mood.
>Sister and her husband love all sorts of music: folk, bluegrass, jazz, rock, pop, r&b, country... not sure about metal or things like that
>Gave them a BOC vinyl which they enjoyed
>One day we're cooking and I decide to share Alt-J's An Awesome Wave, the timing seemed about right and they were in a good mood.
>They loved it
>Sister says "I like Alt-J" and I could tell they both really did
>But that feeling when you don't say a word in response because you don't know how to approach somebody else's expressions of appreciation and anything that comes out sounds forced because it's not an accurate expression of your thoughts.
Sharing music is an exercise in empathy and self-expression. There's no such thing as a "normie". "I like it, they should too because we're friendly" — won't work.
>>65254064
>sneaking lolicore into your party mix
>with friends
>hey check out this band
>not really a huge fan of this
>ok
>>65257170
Quality post.
>Sharing music is an exercise in empathy and self-expression.
Well said m8.
> Put on music depending on who I'm driving with and their individuals tastes
> Everybody enjoys themselves
> Asks me for music recs
It really is not that hard to guess what music other people enjoy.
Not really a party/AUX cord scenario, but this green-haired weeaboo girl was showing me her taste in music for whatever reason (which happened to be lolsoedgy carnival goth hot topic-core) and we somehow got on the topic of guitar distortion, so I decided to show her some MBV. Based on the band name I think she assumed it was her type of music, her reaction to When You Sleep and I Only Said seemed to be mixed.
>>65253611
nice pasta
>>65253864
go have fun dude people like you are such bummers
>>65253664
idk man that's a pretty easy track to get into
>>65253802
the real answer to "stones or beatles?" is the kinks
>HS junior prom after party in 2013
>starting to mellow out, people are leaving
>left with just my few good friends and gf
>atmosphere gets really chill
>take aux cord, put on Banshee Beat
>everyone sits in silence, enraptured by the beauty
something so beautiful will never happen again
>>65253962
>headphones at a party
>ever
>>65255095
How come normies don't love Anal Cunt
>Pregame at my place
>Stoked to play my tunes
>Power Corruption and Lies, Thick as a Brick
>Everybody's digging it, feel good
>Leave for the bar
>Shitty karaoke bar
>Shitty music
>It's boring as fuck, live a block away
>Go home with buddy to get drunker
>Put on Skeletal Lamping
>Goes well
>End up getting plastered, decide to just stay and talk
>Buddy's checking out my vinyls, sees something he likes
>"I really like this one anon, you should put it on"
>It's ITAOTS
>nice.jpg
>Conversation derails
>"I don't have any reason for the sadness I feel in my heart, I never earned this feeling"
>"I'm going to be stuck in a mid level job, fading into obscurity"
>mfw one of the pivotal conversations of my life is a meme
>End up puking with a smile, knowing I have a friend who understands me
>Working at coffee shop
>usually work by myself, have a big playlist of normie music mixed with some accessible music I like
>Closing in 5 min, No customers for the last hour and half.
>Put on some MBV to listen to while I close
>customer comes in at the last minute
>The noise holocaust section of "You Made me Realize" comes on while I'm making some old ladies latte
>Asks wtf this is
>"haha ya know internet radio who knows what song might come on ya know" (All my coworkers just listen to Padora, complete with ads)
>Now three more people in line with MBV still playing, can't get back to switch playlist
>>65257532
No, being intoxicated beyond cognition is a bummer
>>65257687
This.
