Nutter!
Here's something from a PROPER rock'n roller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nz9jR_AuLM&feature=related
And you criticise Level 42!!! that stuff's remedial
I guess music is v personal in taste terms!
Well yes, of course it is
and it is also highly conditioned by the opinion of influential peers, advertising and culture. Sometimes you can dislike [or like] a piece due to nothing other than pure association/memories etc. rather than on it's own merits. Sometimes there are only one or two tracks you really like from a whole body of work or you can find yourself inadvertently dismissing really good tracks because of disliking a particular artist.
Tastes change and evolve and sometimes I think that the art of listening to music is learning to play the right thing at the right time. A certain track can drive you nuts one day and at another time, you can't get enough of it. Conversely, you may be feeling a bit down and then find that a particular piece can completely lift your mood.
There is something mysterious about the power music that seems to connect to some kind of primal language that even very little babies respond to. Even though you see babies spontaneously jigging to music , I'm not sure that this is just to do with rhythm. It seems to be to do with pitch as well. I have sometimes wondered if it is linked to the way in which the human voice has to intonate as a part of language and in order to fully convey meaning. If you remove or alter intonation, meaning can be lost or misconstrued whereas intonation alone can sometime convey more than directly and precisely than words. E.g. Ahhhhhhhhrgh is an unmistakable personal message isn't it whereas an intellectual critique is impersonal.
Perhaps the ability to intuit meaning from tone and rhythm is it is hard wired into our primal selves before we were pre-verbal and in order to understand our children. Or maybe it's something to do with the need to understand the sounds of nature ? storm coming etc. I seem to remember something about 'the rhythm of the spheres' but I never really understood that. Bit too weird.