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| From | Sam Smith <sam@lullabypit.com> |
| Subject | How can (X) possibly not be on their list? |
| Date | Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:37:34 -0700 |
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Hi. Really enjoying the lists, as always, and as always, in utter dismay
at the number of highly regarded bands I haven't heard yet. Clearly I
need more money to buy discs and more spare time to listen to them.
Reading everybody's 2006 takes has brought me back around to a question I
have wondered about, but never asked. I know from experience that most of
what I buy in a year will be reflected in my year-end list, mainly
because I tend to sample pretty thoroughly before I buy. So it's unusual
for me to buy something and then conclude that it sucks. Ergo, if you
like a CD and it's not on my list, that may well mean that I just haven't
heard it yet.
I'm wondering if this is how it is with the rest of you. Let me ask a for
instance question. Take a disc like Don Dixon's THE ENTIRE COMBUSTIBLE
WORLD IN ONE SMALL ROOM or last year's Jeffrey Dean Foster disc. The
Dixon is on my 2006 list and I have seen it on one or two others, and I
may have been the only one here to lodge a vote for Foster last year.
Now, I'm wondering how anybody could hear these records without
respecting them enough to put them on their lists (just like a lot of you
would look at my list and wonder why certain things were omitted). My
guess is that very few people heard them, though. So their absence is a
reflection of "not hearing" rather than "not liking."
But I may be wrong. Not that we have to be talking about this disc, even,
but I wonder if people here are leaving a lot that they hear off their
lists, or if they're doing a lot of evaluation prior to acquisition so
that most of what they buy IS here.
And as a side note, did anybody listen to the Dixon (or Foster) and
decide that they weren't worthy?
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Sam Smith
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