quoted 4 lines This is something I'd like feedback on: DOES music necessarily>This is something I'd like feedback on: DOES music necessarily
>"grow on you" with repeat listening? I tend to make a snap
>decision on the off : skip skip skip through a new release (either in
>the shop or at home) and it either gells or it doesn't.
I think it happens every which way. I recall hearing Richard Strauss' music for the first time, and thinking it was the most oppressive pile of overwrought annoying shit I'd ever heard. Later I became quite devoted to his music. of course most of my friends (and probably most people on this list) still find Strauss the most oppressive and pretentious crap imaginable, and so I skulk about, a pariah.
the other thing I find is that few pieces of music work for me the same way every time i play them. What sounded blissfully perfect at midnight sounded like crap in the morning. Records that sounded great at the store somehow died on the way home, never to sound good again. Records that seemed unpromising sprang to life again later. I'm often foraging through my cds and records to give some loser another chance.
and so I will dive back into the "Warp 10+1" compilation, seeking the pleasures I've heard intimations of; perhaps they will be mine one day.
kurt