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3.22 AVERAGE
3.22 AVERAGE
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It's just not the book for me. Based on the blurb I went in with very different expectations, which were not met at all. I was expecting more of the internal science of music and how and why humans listen, more scientific stuff overall, while this was opinion based and focused alot of specific kinds of music.
"Don't get me wrong, I love The Beatles," spouts Faber after spending chapter after chapter bleating on about them. No shit.
emotional
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reflective
fast-paced
I enjoyed this series of meditations of music, even if it was uneven and unsatisfying at times. It's a bit meta -- most of it focuses on things a step removed from the actual music, like examining how people use music to associate with various tribes, comparing how various British rock bands appropriated black music, or looking at why Wikipedia has such a dude-centric approach. Its effectiveness for me was limited by the fact that Faber basically ignores all the types of music I'm actually interested in. For a book that is really about music consumption rather than music production, he is also curiously silent on how streaming platforms have changed this; his thinking seems to have been frozen in about 2008. Faber weirdly relies far, far too much on reading and recounting what's going on in YouTube comments sections. So, a fun one, but also probably one I'll basically never think about again now that I'm done.
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This just wasn’t for me. I was hoping for something that would go deep into how musical preferences shape our perception of music, what drives our preferences, and the cultural/tribal aspect of those preferences. Instead, this felt like various lines of thought that (sometimes tenuously) touched on an aspect of music or the authors experience with it.
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inspiring
lighthearted
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relaxing