letting people listen to the music of their choice is good manners, listening to music for production values and or motor skills is simply poor taste,
steve
In a message dated Mon, 15 Nov 1999 1:13:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, cognition@ns.sympatico.ca (Andrew Duke) writes:
> 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:
>
> > 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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