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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: seminal music |
| Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:26:13 -0500 |
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I thought you were heading to something like the movie Sliding Doors -- if
Ellen had bought the Television album instead, how would her life had turned
out? I think there's something to that -- I think that a few things shaped
my liking more obscure music -- my first favorite band was Sweet -- though
they had some hits, they had plenty of flops, but I stuck with them. My
high school radio station got service from CBS, so in 1980, I got to hear
bands like Psychedelic Furs, Adam and the Ants, Four Out of Five Doctors,
etc. -- it clued me into the fact that there was plenty of fine music that I
would NEVER hear on the radio. In conjunction with Creem and Trouser Press,
it set me off on my musical path...
Mike Bennett
Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
>From: kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: seminal music
>Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 08:24:13 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>--- Christobal <plattc@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> > This is in line with a concept I've been thinking a
> > lot lately, that
> > musical tastes are very much formed early on, based
> > on exposure, but
> > that as those tastes mature and evolve, they
> > simultaneously both broaden
> > and narrow (at least for the avid music-listener).
>
>
>I was only just thinking about something my comrade
>Ellen, my music-discovering buddy in high school,
>related to me years ago: she remembers distinctly
>being 17 or so and standing in a record store with
>money for only one LP - the two she had in her hands
>were 10,000 Maniacs "In My Tribe" and Television's
>"Marquee Moon" (because she liked the covers) and she
>ended up with 10,000 Maniacs, a choice that informed
>many of our musical choices for the next couple of
>years. Which makes me wonder: at that divergent
>moment, could we have created a tendency to like
>harder-edged, ultimately more 'indie' releases than we
>ended up liking for many years thereafter? might i
>have more handily impressed the music-loving boys in
>my dorm years later with my knowledge of proto-punk
>instead of my knowledge of folk-rock and todd
>rundgren, or, at that point, did all roads just lead
>everybody to Husker Du? An interesting query, though
>probably not a very profitable one.
>
>just noodlin,
>--kelly
>
>np: alkaline trio - damn, i love a rock crooner. "all
>on black" is one of the flat-out coolest songs i've
>heard this year.
>
>
>=====
>oderint dum mentuant
>
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