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Originally posted by jinxed84 You cant convert everyone to electronic music. it takes a certain intelligence and open mindedness to appreciate the music and not fear leaving the herd of god damned sheep. Edit: i are bad grammar at

Agreed! People have to expand their minds and listen to Rock, Classical, Jazz, etc... There are some good rap out there as well every genre has it's jewls

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please dont use the word "intelligence" to refer to music omg And it has nothing to do with ADD or ADHD either. Some of us TA may have ADD.

Why force people to listen to music you listen to? If you give them a few good tracks to listen to and they dont like it, why waste your time trying to convince them that your music is good.

i actually just had a big fight with some ass i work with about this.

i had a PVD mix on and he would not stop bitching about how it was 'boring' 'repetitive' and 'not real music.' he's one of those horrible rock elitists...simply would not listen to anything i was trying to say and it was really getting to me.

what kills me is that he listens to bands like the daughters and godspeed...both of which are those arty "10-minutes-of-one-chord-with-a-slow-crescendo-somehow-makes-us-brilliant" bands.

really i've stopped trying to convince people who arent into it at first that they need to be. not worth the frustration.

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Originally posted by itsTrueSonic After reading that post "Say I wanted a DJ for a school dance..." ( http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=136596) it really got me thinking how a lot of people have ADD (attention defecit disorder) when it comes to music. They like songs that they either hear on the radio a lot or are less than 4.30 minutes. Other than that, they will say the song is crap and has no meaning. There are a lot of classic trance songs that do extend to 6 to 7 minutes .. sometimes even 9 minutes. Yet, the public does not adhere to the good dance beats of trance. For instance, I was bringing a friend to his house a couple of months ago, and I played "motorcycle - as the rush comes", and he asked me that the song was too extensive, boring, and loopy. The song isn't even long .. maybe about 6 minutes, comparing to other great songs. I asked him if he ever heard of the song before, and he said no. I have had many occasions when I play stuff I download here or somewhere else, and they don't appeal to them. I get comments about my Global Underground collection, Svenson and Gielen's sets of songs, AVB's cds, etc .. Of course they have an appeal to Tiesto's songs... But I have just called it quits trying to "educate" the public with good trance music that has great beats. What you guys think? Have you ever tried to please the public with "public-defined extensive boring" songs? If we love this music and others don't, does that mean that we are high on ritalin right now ? I don't think I am high on the drug, to my extent knowledge. Maybe i am .. not sure ...

Why would you try so hard to get ppl to like trance? Just give ppl a cd of your music if they care to hear it

It is a matter of understanding some people understand the music, others do not, that is the way it has always been. Dont bother trying to show them the light it is in em or it isnt and if it aint it probably never will be

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