Latley I’ve been listening to among music that I do like, music that makes me want to die really quickly. I don’t like it but I listen to it anyway. I’ve been able to listen to entire albums by Steely Dan and Gato Barbieri which I’ve never been able to do… I hated those entire experiences but in a good, mind-numbing sort of way. When I want to listen to some music, I reach for Steely Dan even though I know that I hate it, but I actually listen to it!! AGHHHHHHHH!! I’M going to die if I don’t turn it off!!
Does anybody else do this?
No… don’t see the point really, other than when I’m forced to listen to someone elses rather bad taste in music. There is so much music that I do like, that I could keep myself entertained for months on end…
Only if its in a video or at work or something.
No, or at least not by my own choice. The most common place where I listen to music I don’t like is at Great Clips, when I’m getting my hairs cut.
Give Steely Dan a bit more of a chance. There’s a lot going on instrumentally in many of their songs, and the writing is well above most of the slop that gets released. Check out “Third World Man” on the Gaucho album, as just one example.
While I don’t actively go out to listen to music I don’t like, I will listen to music I don’t know in order to learn more about it and make up my mind if I like it or not.
At the same time, bear in mind that I work in Adult Contemporary radio, so I’ve heard enough Lionel Richie, Elton John and Barbara Streisand to last me a lifetime.
no i dont listen to music i dont like, its pointless. my sister plays really fast squeeky music all the time and its so annoying so i drown it out with my own music:D opm rules:D
Every day at work.
I hate Kiss FM. 
I don’t spend much time intentionally listening to music that I know I don’t like. I do pick out unknown CDs at the library just to give them a try. I’ve found some new music that way. I’ve also found stuff that I don’t like. The stuff I don’t like I don’t listen to again and I don’t listen to the entire CD.
I do sometimes listen intentionally to music that I don’t find interesting and would never listen to for serious listening. But there are times when you want music in the background that is not going to be distracting. I call that my milquetoast music.
Yes! I can probably find something I don’t like in all the music I listen to, and what I don’t like can change daily. I can be so moody. 
I tend to like elevator music, and that piped in music you hear in shopping malls and department stores, especially during Christmas. Also love the stuff you hear while your on hold on the telephone. So underrated! 
I have three kids from 16 down to 11; of course I listen to music I don’t like (and TV shows too but won’t thread jack)! Thank goodness for i-pods on road trips. But they do often like to listen to music that I like too.
Thanx for the new word.
I had to look that up.
A while back, I lived with a woman who was the type of person to have dinner parties.
No, she never learnt to ride a unicycle.
When we had the first of these dinner parties, as part of the preparations, she asked me to put on some ‘background music’.
I went thru my entire CD collection and realised I had not a single CD in my collection that I would consider ‘background music’.
I felt like such a success as a human being at that moment.
(We listened to Miles Davis’s ‘Kind of Blue’ on repeat eventually.)
i work in argos and almost forgot that they pipe in “Argos Radio” all day at work. sometimes i’ll be feeling good for no automatically apparent reason. i suppose somehow i’ve managed to switch off mentally to annoying tunes. it’s bearable, mainly because i’m getting paid to be there and because i know i can look foward to aural stimulation after work. 
I wouldn’t make a point of listening to something I didn’t like. However, I do make a point of listening to a wider range of music, and broadening my appreciation of music.
As the singer of Hayseed Dixie said, show me a man who only has one kind of music in his CD collection, and I’ll show you a man I don’t want to drink beer with.
There is some merit in most types of music. I have only completely failed to connect with about two CDs I’ve ever bought:
80s Matchbox B Movie Disaster (or whatever they’re called)
The Jazz Passengers (with Deborah (as we must now call her) Harry
I think I figured out that it’s the rhythm that I like on those albums!!
Okay, now I feel better.
Music is rhythm above everything else. It is rhythm that gives it its structure. Without rhythm, it is only manmade sound.
For proof, choose a well known tune. Tap the tune on the table with your pen and ask someone to identify it. They will almost certainly get it right.
Now, take a well known tune, and play all the right notes, in the right order, but making them all exactly the same length and with exactly the same emphasis. It will be difficult or impossible to identify the tune.
In music, there is rhythm not only from note to note, and bar to bar, but also from phrase to phrase. There is even a rhythm in the pattern of chord changes. It is this that lets you start listening to a piece of music part way through, and yet be able to understand where the music is going almost immediately.
The more music you listen to, the more you will hear in it. (This general principle does not necessarily apply to the album “Total Doom” by Doom.)