Can You Like Both ?
During an Interview with The Wire Actor Seth Gilliam(Ellis Carver). DJ Colin Murray claimed The Wire was the antidote to 24,
but that it was possible to like them both. (I DO,The Wire more than 24 it must be said).He went on to say "It's not like Dylan and Young".
Now does he mean you can't like Bob Dylan and Neil Young ? or what point is he trying to make here.
Now i'm not the World's biggest Dylan fan but i really like Neil Young. What i want to know is how many of you like Both ? and What other acts do you think "It's impossible to like both " or The combination of acts that people are most suprised by in Your Musical taste.
Slayer and Hank Williams for me ,love them both. For some people this is very strange indeed.
It's Neil Young day on The Blog it seems.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7529822.stm
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Well I like both
Just not as much as I used to, though I still listen to Dylan a hell of a lot.
I reckon it's possible to like pretty much anything. Nothing is surely mutually exclusive. My two most listened to acts of recent weeks have been Cats on Fire, jingly jangly (though not landfill) indie pop from Sweden (thankyou Word CD) and Fela Kuti who was neither Swedish nor big on indie pop. Nothing in common whatsoever apart from the fact that they're music and I love them both...
Only two sorts of music
Stuff you like and stuff you don't.
Possible to like any two disparate acts and to appreciate (if not actually enjoy) elements of all music.
My collection (per iTunes) runs to just shy of 50,000 songs and apart from a number of clunkers, I can find good in pretty well all of them depending on my mood.
Compare with the GLW, who can only manage to find 363 songs in that collection that merit a place on her 4Gb iPod Mini (remember them?)
I like both Dylan and Young (although I probably 'appreciate' NY more than I 'like' him).
Surprising combination? I dunno. All Saints and Miles Davis?
Can think of no two acts where I would say it's impossible to like both. Unless one of those acts is Keane, obviously.
Me too!
More Dylan than Neil Young but I like both a lot.
It is possible to get something out of almost anything but what probably more interesting is that while not obvious it would be possible to love one and hate the other though many would see them as ploughing a very similar furrow.
visa versa
i like BD but am more of a neil Young fan. Depends on the mood really, this year i had not even played any Tom Waits for about five months- now on a daily basis again.
I concur with those who say
I concur with those who say it's perfectly possible to like both Dylan and Young, and two far more disparate types of artist than the aforementioned two.
I have never understood this...
'you can't like so-and-so if you like so-and-so' argument.
I like...
Sex Pistols and Supertramp
Sonic Youth and Andy Williams
The Temptations and AC/DC
The Stones and Those Beatles
It's all music, innit?!
Yes it is(Not so sure about The 'Tramp though.)
Well put Patrick.
To be honest...
...I think this territorial 'either/or' thing only really matters to rock critics!
Narrow minds
To suggest you can't like The Wire and 24 and Dylan and Neil Young are both preposterous propositions.
You might as well say you can't like Picasso and Constable, or you can't like Shakespeare and Coward or you can't like John Updike and Raymond Chandler.
Nine Inch Nails fans seem to have a problem with Ministry
Similar music but people don't seem to like both.