kent: i'm with you on this thread. personally, i make a point
of listening to practically everything i have access
to, regardless of style or whether i like it or not.
for example, i don't like country music, but at
work, (i'm a supervisor) if i give one of the employees
a break and she/he is listening to a country station,
for example, i'll leave it playing (even though i could
change the station). ditto for employees who are
listening to a rock station, an oldies station, a pop
station, etc. i've got a radio on in the kitchen 24/7
(tuned to the college station) and i'll hear all kinds
of music from classical to indie rock to hip hop
to r n b to Indian music to Greek music to etc etc.
I won't change the channel if something comes on
i'm not into, i'll just leave it for the sake of variety.
i think it's important to hear music you're not into
occasionally cos it makes you appreciate what you *are* into.
what am i listening to right now? well, it happens
to be a live PA from unit for the syndicated show,
but if i was in the kitchen it could very well be
someone playing a poppy bjork song on the college
station (something that i wouldn't have listened
to otherwise) or if my girlfriend was home, she could
easily be playing a madonna cd or something of that
nature. i think we need to keep our ears
open, and it's good to see you do. i'll make a point
of listening to the weekly pop music top 30 on the
radio if i work a saturday shift (when it's airing)
just to keep up on the latest pop music. and i'll listen
to syndicated shows (again, at work, i don't listen
to em at home) when they air like MC Mario's
Top 10 dance show (Mixdown) and Chris Sheppard's
Pirate Radio. do i like the music they play? nope,
it's not what i'm into at all, but it's interesting to see
what is being played on canadian syndicated shows.
(checkin' out the competition ;)) and do i listen
to pop music radio at home? nope, at home i listen
to vinyl and DATs, at work i'll listen to CDs or
the radio. i'm so busy listening to incoming music
here that i don't even listen to the radio at home. so i'm
with ya, nothing wrong with checking out the backstreet
boys et al. heck, i'm sure wells appreciates stuff other
than IDM, this thread just sorta took a strange tone
with the Backstreet Boys on the IDM list, is likely all.
i find it fascinating that there's so much six degrees of
separation in pop music. i won't post that thread a'
mine again, though. take care. andrew duke :)
wells wrote:
quoted 18 lines At 11:45 AM 11/15/99 -0600, Kent williams wrote:
> At 11:45 AM 11/15/99 -0600, Kent williams wrote:
> >
> >Well, I'm sorry for you too, wells. Some day you'll wake up
> >and realize that there's more to life than being an ironic hipster.
> >
>
> There's really nothing ironic or hip about feeling the deepest of pity for
> anyone who can appreciate the Backstreet Boys for any reason whatsoever.
>
> That sort of pity ought to be instinctive.
>
> - wells oliver / s0ewoliv@titan.vcu.edu
> " The ball is round. The game lasts ninety 90 minutes.
> This much is fact. Everything else is just theory."
>
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