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Forget about all the tips here. Love for music is something personal and most good music needs to grow on you. I love music including more difficult music a lot (>600 cds), but for instance Dream Theater is just not for me. Not that I don't believe it is complex, I just don't feel anything with it (the only true progressive I like is early Genesis). That had nothing to do with the quality of the music, just with the way I listen to it.

As for the OP I believe there are two options:

1st: You just don't like music. Have you considered that? Just because most people do does not mean you have to. If that is the case just don't worry about it.

2nd: The second option is you are listening to the wrong music indeed. As a general rule music you like instantly will be simple catchy music. It will have some basic nice things, but probably won't grow on you. On the other hand there is music you'd have to invest in to find the true quality. This takes some effort on the part of the listener and ofcourse you'd need to know a little bit in front what you will like and what not (for instance I like melody most, while another might prefer rhythm).

If you'd like I can try to think of some tips for you (I believe I have a fairly wide taste including very hard metal as well as very sweet lovesongs, very weird jazz as well as very studied classic, etc.). But anyone who tries to give a good tip will need some information. The most important things are:

1. what music did you like at first and what specific things about them did you like?
2. what made you think it was crap later on. Was it boring you, not stimulating enough, annoying, too much noise all at once, etc?

Dream Theater=

That seems very strange to me, my problem is more that I like too much music!! My music collection just keeps growing and growing and soon I won't have any more room on my computer for it all.

I am very logical so it is hard for me to integrate music into my life If only I knew what albert einstein listened to

Try Nightwish, Within Temptation and best of all, Sonata Arctica.

Have you gave metal a try? I like all metal. And metal is a very broad range of music. It ranges from Megadeth to Lamb of God. Lamb of God is death metal (very hard core, screaming, hard to understand) which I think is pretty cool. Megadeth isnt screamo but the guitar is pretty heavy. Just a suggestion. And those are just two bands. There are MANY more. Godsmack is my favorite. But there are also Metallica, White Zombie, Rob Zombie, Bloodsimple and to many mroe to count.

http://www.myspace.com/dragonforce

Hey... don't sweat over it.
I'm not into any sort of popular music at all. Can't ever find anything mainstream that I can get into.
Only thing I listen to and enjoy is videogame/movie soundtracks and some occasional j-rock/j-pop.
Try finding a music culture niche for that.

matsuiny2004, I was in that boat for a little while. I actually never got into music at all until just a few years ago.

What I recommend is setting up a free account on Pandora Radio. It is a site for creating streaming stations to fit your own tastes.

If there is already even just one or a handful of artists you like, you can put those in, and Pandora will find music that has similar qualities. You can then rate songs using a "thumbs up"/"thumbs down" system, so the station is custom tailored to your tastes.

I've found a lot of great music and genres that I didn't know existed due to Pandora. Being one who buys CDs of the albums he really likes, Pandora has resulted in me spending a lot of money.