I just thought of this thread so quick during a moment when I was cleaning up an event room and had on the newest The Contortionist album when a co-worker walked in...
Her: "Oh wow, this is really pretty, what band is this?"
Me: "The Contortionist, I don't think you'd like them."
Her: "I love this!"
Me: "Well you might like this one album, or part of it, but that'd be it."
Her: "Let me listen to something else, what other songs do you like by them?"
Me: "Okay I'll put on a few seconds of my other favorite songs"
*Plays Primal Directive for about five seconds, Oscillator for three seconds and Thrive for half a minute*
Her: "...................................
Yeah. I've got a table I think".
Me: "The restaurant is empt-"
*She power walks out*
Something like this has happened with soooooooo many people.
Chalk it up to the love of music that has quiet and beautiful sections doused with vicious flames of awesomeness.
No, no, you're right and that was what the "it's not the place" was meant to cover. I'm talking about those other threads (here) where everything that's not prog symphonic metal is "shit". There are little hints here - the dig at country for example - but you're right, no one has really said that here.
To expand on this just a tad, I (and others with their thoughts towards my music) can dislike a genre and express that dislike without thinking that people that like it are less than I. It's just blunt to say that I really couldn't be in a relationship with someone who blared their country as much as I blare my music; doesn't mean I think said person is horrible or less. More power to the people that love it. The issue arises when someone thinks that "their" (it's not theirs) music is better because, 9 times out of 10, it's more technically proficient, or has lyrics that cover half of The Odyssey and two Star Trek episodes. Hopefully no one got that from my comment because everyone can have their own tastes and hate/love what they want without throwing ad hominems around. There's plenty of people who abhor my music (see above), but just let it be and go about their way, which is how it should be.