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| From | Jocelyn Geboy <smussyolay@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: seminal music |
| Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:27:22 -0700 (PDT) |
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--- "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@mindspring.com> 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 am increasingly of the mind that most of us of who
> grew up in the 1980s
> listening to indie or college radio rock eventually
> found our way round to every band in that
> era/movement. That is, you could
> listen to both 10,000 Maniacs and Husker Du, and
> there wouldn't
> be anything mutually exclusive about that. There was
> plenty of room in
> record collection for both Dinosaur Jr. and REM. I
> think, in those days, it
> was all of a piece. I think it was just the nature
> of the time; there were
> so few bands (until the majors got wind of them)
> making the kind of music
> that we (collectively) were into, that there was
> plenty of
> cross-pollinization.
>
> While the Internet hs been a blessing in that it's
> connected me with
> like-minded fans (instead of feeling like a lone
> outcast in the days of my
> youth), I think it also serves to
> hyper-compartmentalize individual
> interests, and it has made, to a degree, that kind
> of cross-pollinization
> more difficult.
>
> And I don't think it necessarily follows that, as
> you age, your tastes
> calcify. If anything, I find myself more curious
> about different forms of
> music outside of the admittedly limited diet of
> guitar rock I grew up on. I
> started exploring trance/electronica this summer,
> and have some affection
> for some rap. While I'd rather chew aluminum foil
> and cut my hair with a
> cheese grater than listen to nu metal or teen-pop, I
> understand its place in
> the cosmos, and I don't begrudge it that space.
>
> Do I wish that some of the artists that Auditeers
> collectively love could
> find their way to a broader audience? Certainly. But
> Good Lord, I wouldn't
> want to impose my orthodoxy on the larger world
> anymore than I'd want them
> to impose it upon me. So, I guess I'm saying that
> The Shazam and Evanessence
> (or however they spell it) can exist in the same
> universe without
> apocalyptic implications.
>
> John
> (feeling a bit scholarly on a rainy Friday morn)
>
~~~~am i just an anomaly? cause i don't own any
shazam yet, but get blown away by their show at not
lame night at CHIPO, but hear the evanescence song on
the radio for the first time (don't own that, and have
no interest to go buy it, btw) and my ears perk up at
that as well? like..hmmm, this is interesting, at
least? sarah mclachlan meets...um...someone nurock.
i was intrigued.
jocelyn, who sometimes likes everything
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