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| From | "Michael Curry" <mikecurry@hotmail.co.uk> |
| Subject | Re: How can (X) possibly not be on their list? |
| Date | Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:15:55 +0000 |
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Sam,
You must have read my mind. The Keene Brothers album was number one on my
list for '06 and up until today, I hadn't even seen it on another list. I
was scratching my head as I thought - have I made this album up? Have I
just imagined the twin delights of Bob Pollard and Tommy Keene? I can only
imagine that so few people have heard it, cos it definitely ain't a bad CD.
To answer your side note, I haven't heard either the Dixon or the Foster CD.
Any song clips anywhere?
Mike.
>From: Sam Smith <sam@lullabypit.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: Audities <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: How can (X) possibly not be on their list?
>Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:37:34 -0700
>
>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?
>--
>
>_______________________
>
>Sam Smith
>
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