It's definitely a tricky balancing act. Sometimes the closest you'll ever get to your true feelings is that instinctive reaction. But sometimes that can be misleading (with me at least).oblioblioblio wrote:
maybe it's a personal thing. i dunno.
with lots of music I make a snap judgement and then listen to the same record in a different mindset and I feel very differently.
i dunno though, maybe it's true. or maybe it's just different with different people listening and different types of music.
Like house, and other very groove based music you can probably tell a bit more easily, cos with that style tracks generally bare themselves from the start, and have a lot of consistancy across different sections. But at the same time I doubt there are many people who can judge a symphony from just one section. But maybe that style is a bit too far away from most electrnic music to be comparable.
For me it can take a while before I know how I feel. Sometimes it's straight away and when I listen again I feel similarly. BUt sometimes my feelings can flip around quite a lot.
One of my favourite records ever I hated for the first 4 or 5 listens but one day it all started to make sense to me, though that was when I was a bit younger.
tough.