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| From | shawn campbell <thursdayinjune@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: epiphanies |
| Date | Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:17:58 -0700 (PDT) |
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Funny, this is one I'm just not quite sure on. There
was definitely a change somewhere, and it definitely
took place in college, focused on working in college
radio...however, my college radio station was an odd
mixture of AOR and modern rock. I'm trying to figure
out where bands stopped being "weird" in my mind, and
started being "cool." I think it was the summer
before my junior year, when I realized being a college
radio station playing Journey and Bob Seger was just
not cool.
Really, it was like one day I thought Lou Reed's voice
was annoying, and the next day I loved him. Very
strange. I certainly had some friends who already had
good musical taste, but I don't think they really
pushed me...just grew into good taste, I guess.
Interestingly, I loved R.E.M. from the first time I
heard them, but didn't really think of them as any
different from Bon Jovi or Whitney Houston, other
staples of my 1986 Top 40 radio station.
I loved the Beatles from the day I was born (my Mom
played Rubber Soul repeatedly, and they have never NOT
been a part of my life. I think that is pretty cool),
so that never needed to "click."
Discovering Big Star and the Replacements were
definitely important signposts in my musical
development, but I don't remember specific moments.
--Shawn
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