i really dont know what kinda person i am, and i do think thet there are more that just two options.
i like deep lyrics, fast drums, thrashing guitars and symphonic masterpices. so primarily i listen to black metal (like gothinc bur far more intence) but i have a wide range of musical tastes. take dimmu borgir's unorthadox manifesto, after about a minute and a half of listining to ww2 fighter airplanes, browning .50 cal machine guns, and a marching army that keeps chanting "hail satan" and after "gentelmen.... DESTROY!" the song starts of with blazing metal fury, and gradualy slows down to a gentle piano solo at the end. sometimes i will focus onto the lyrics or on a particular instrament. i will try to follow the rythmic patters of the drums or focus on the words (in all their demonic fury). i wil disect a great many of my favorate songs in that maner. often i find very subtle things that add
to the meaning of the song. the general flow of a song has
of meaning.
i often read between the lines because aften a song's meaning is in great conflict with the actual lyrics. take gwar for example, if you took em literaly it would probibly want to make you go out and have intercourse with a farm animal or consume the entrails of one of your relatives. when
they are trying to reveal the true nature of man. by associating evil tendancies with vile characters they mean to say that there are monsrters among us.
often a song doesnt try to say a whole lot but is still fun to listen to. so i will listen to
of instumental stuff. metallica's the call of ktulu is an awesome example of instrumental flow. if you listen closely you can tell that there is a story there. however abstract it might be. same aplies to any classicl work.
im more an instrumental type so if a song doesnt sound good from that perspective i probibly wouldnt listen to it. being into
of death/black metal i often wont even try to listen to the lyrics at first, focusing on the melody. because of the demonic nature of the way lyrics are done in that particlular kind of music il actually have look up the lyrics before i have any clue as to what they are saying. foreng language music is about the same. i didnt even care what rammstein said because they knew how to play their instruments. but on ocasion i will figure out what the song is about without even looking up the lyrics.
i do give lyrical band such as ratm some credit, bands who are about making the world a beter place yet get crapped on by politicians always deserve credit. even gwar does it too but not in an obvious way and not to the same degree. some black metal bands (dimmu borgir in particular) can be very wordy. and i swear my vocabulary has doubled sence i started listening to them. being abstract minded i will always look beont what is said. because theres always
more to it.
