Dean Esmay notes that music is not a quantified pleasure but instead more of a social phenomena. I agree.

In the office I used to run, we listened to music all day long, every single day. Noticing changes in my own tastes, I came up with a theory that even bad music, if listened to enough, would become tolerable and even enjoyed. There is a flipside to that theory as well - any music, if listened to too often or for too long would become less enjoyed and possibly even distasteful.

One visitor thought that this was a funny idea and brought us 4 extremely bad cds for us in order for us to run a test. At the first listening, we were all in one accord: these were very good examples of very bad music. However, we started playing each disc at least once per day. It was a bit rough at first, but we persisted through the horror and to our surprise, after just a few weeks, all of us learned to enjoy 3 of the albums. In fact, we liked them so much, that once the test was over, they all made it into our regular voluntary cycle of music.

And the 4th cd? We just could never get the hang of it. I still have all four discs but I have not listened to that once once since the conclusion of our test, 9 years ago. I still shudder when I think of the songs on that cd. The other three? My kids stole them from me and sometimes I hear them played quite loudly from their bedrooms.