Maelstrom Eyre

I was in a club the other day - DJ, dance balls, etc. - the club tends to play a variety of stuff depending on who the DJ is. Sometimes it's really random, sometimes it's funny stuff, sometimes it's a specific theme, but usually it's at least dance-able music.

On this particular day, though, the DJ was playing this really screaming loud metal/industrial. . .um. . .stuff. Avatars were all just standing around, no one was dancing. No one was really even talking. I'm not really sure anyone COULD dance to it. I just turned off the music in my viewer and played my own stuff through iTunes. He did about a two hour set of that.

Now, generally I think "to each his own" when it comes to music styles. We all have our own tastes and preferences, and if you don't like what a club is playing, you can just TP somewhere else. But, since the main "theme" of the sim is as a place to dance and socialize. . .and no one was doing either. . .I'd have thought the DJ might take a hint and play something even remotely dance-able.

Along the same lines, I've been to RP sims with a medieval or fantasy theme, just to wander around their marketplace and maybe check out the sim OOC. Most of them have a stream playing instrumental music that kind of fits the theme/feel of the RP. For example, Grendel's Children always has stuff on their stream that sounds like a soundtrack for a fantasy/adventure movie.

I've been to others, though, that are blaring some kind of techno dance stuff, heavy metal, R&B. Great stuff. . .if you're running a dance club. Not so much if you're trying to get into the feel of the RP.

Am I just being too persnickety about music?

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Myf

Depends on how the club normally sells itself. If it's a rock or metal club, then you should expect the odd DJ that like to play stuff from the extreme end of the spectrum. If it's not normally a metal club though, then he maybe wasn't a good fit. From your description of the other patrons not getting into it, I'm leaning towards poor style fit and thus you're not being too persnickety.*

* -- people need to say persnickety more often.

bladyblue

I think you might have encountered one of those "when the cat is away, the mouse will play" situations. I would always listen to the shout cast stream when I wasn't logged into SL to make sure no one was playing The Dark Side of the Moon album or Freebird.

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Aribeth Zelin

Again, yeah - depends on the venue. For example, when I was running a steampunk fantasy sim - the stream we used had symphonic metal, steampunk music, harp stuff, folk metal, some classical [iirc] and anything that generally fit the theme that I thought would work. it was a bit of a kluge, but it never got any complaints.

And when I'm DJing I try to fit themes if the club does that, or I try and fit what people like. MY own tastes are eclectic, but I've learned [for example] that pantera doesn't work at my current place, while Floyd works wonderfully well - and lighthearted and older songs tend to work better, even if not in english, than the heavier stuff.

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Sredni Eel

There's a reason I won't play metal or straight up rock/top forty clubs. I just don't know the music, and am really not into it.

I did manage to sneak in some Bowie once in a while when I played Vengeance, which was all industrial. There's only so much angry German music I can take

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Aribeth Zelin

And see, that makes sense. I wouldn't want to work a modern music club because outside of Abney Park, and a few other specialty artists, I don't -have- the music to play. On the other hand I could work at a classical music venue, metal [older anyway] venue, or even a blues/jazz venue and be okay. I have so much older music [pre 00] that most anything would work for me -outside of maybe country because I don't have enough of that.

But I can't imagine trying to DJ somewhere that doesn't fit your musical tastes at all.

Sea Warcliffe

I always turn on the stream when I'm at a new place - I feel it gives insight to the creator there. And it makes me nuts if I'm on say a rural sim and I get something like death metal or top 40. Or once I was on a sim with a pretty French castle and gardens, and the stream was playing show tunes! Aaaargh!!

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Kira Zobel

Oh no don't get me started on music!

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Maelstrom Eyre

Yep, that's what I'm talking about.

The Sirens mer-mall, for example, plays a lot of instrumental stuff that just fits the floating, buoyant, whimsical mermaid "feel" of the place. It sets the mood.

Sredni Eel

I just have a new wave station playing on my land. I figure when people shop they aren't listening in, but when I'm building I always listen.

Lloyd Newman

WHICH 00?

I love Big Band music - played it professionally for a long time in RL- Dixieland, and Ragtime, which is pushing perilously close to 1900. I'd bet though, that your "older music" doesn't even fall into the "oldies" rock category (Right now, 1950's-late 1970's). Some of the folk music made popular in the 1960's was from 100 years earlier during the Civil War... and much of it was the "Child ballads" hundreds of years older! Then, of course, there's the often misnamed "Classical" music (Which in inaccurate common usage usually spans anything from Medieval and Renaissance to Neo-Classical and 20th Century")

So let's not think of stuff "merely" before 2000 as "old", OK? The ink isn't even dry on it yet! If the first recording wasn't done on an Edison cylinder or a set of lacquer 10" 78s, it's not "old" enough to even consider.

And GET OFF MY LAWN!

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Aribeth Zelin

Actually, my 'oldies' is Bach, Mozart, traditional Folk. Problem is, finding good recordings and having people wish to listen to it - noticed I'd said earlier that the stream for our steampunk rp area included classical. Do I get a cookie?

As for taste in rock, I mostly play 60s and 70s rock, even if some of it is technically a little before my time, its what I think I like best of all, though I do like the Paisley Underground stuff of the 80s. I like blues and jazz, and find an excuse to slip in a little Robert Johnson or Bessie Smith on occasion. I've got as much of the Joplin stuff as I can find that's been converted from the old player piano reels.

As for 78s, I can now actually convert my dad's collection to MP3 via CD. I am quite savvy on 'old' music. My comment should maybe have made more sense as 'I don't have much music NEWER than 2000.' but that was my intent. But there is a reason why my mood here is almost always psychedelic.

ETA: In other words, I wasn't saying it was OLD music, that fills my 500 gigs+ library [not counting vinyl that needs converting], but using older in that, my library has little newer than 2000