In a way, I relate to Eb a little. Not so much the pissing match part. It's
been a few years since I've been in one of those and I try to steer clear of
them. But I think we may have similar music tastes and so many of the bands
that get discussed here I have yet to hear, and when I do hear them, they
sometimes leave me feeling indifferent. I remember poking around the Not
Lame site, and hear some stuff I liked, and some stuff I didn't. The stuff I
liked, I bought (Frank Bango "Candybar Killer"...yeah!) That's what personal
taste is all about. If so many people like this band and I just don't get
it, I still stick around and mostly lurk because melodic, guitar pop is a
favorite genre of mine. In fact, 36 people will get to hear what my idea of
melodic guitar pop is in the next month or so, this being my first
participation in SOTT. When I look at the CoF list, I see a lot of
commonality with my personal collection there, but I hang out on Audities to
get info on the pop bands that slip under the radar of the other lists. And
yeah, I'm not going to dig it all, but if I can find out about a few new
groups that I otherwise would have missed, great!

I actually didn't find Eb's comment about the comparisong between the
Audities and CoF lists to be all that incediary. Maybe the die-hards didn't
like being called a "cult"? At any rate, I find this list great because I
don't have a lot of local friends that are into really guitar-pop so hearing
names of new groups to check out is really valuable, even if half of them
don't pan out for me. There's bound to be some differences in who likes
what, that's just part of the deal. I think I remember a few people a year
or two back that didn't even like Big Star. I don't get that, but whatever.
:-)

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re: the art of the mix

I'm really excited about participating in SOTT16. Can't wait to get me
package in a month or so. I'm a little concerned that my mix is just a
collection of really good songs but lacks flow, but we'll see what the
consensus is. I still don't get tired of playing it and I've heard these
songs a lot already, so it has legs in my book. I've got 8 or 9 mix CDs I've
done over the past couple years that are in the
melodic-alt-indie-postwave-powerpop genre, so if anyone is up for doing some
1-on-1 mix CDR swaps, drop me a note.

You can get an idea of my musical tastes at:

http://theacf.com/sott/
http://theacf.com/radio/
http://theacf.com/music/musichaunts.html

Favorite recent listens: new Delgados, Michael (michaelisaband.com), Nada
Surf (listen to "Blonde on Blonde" at
http://www.barsuk.com/web.cgi?nada&nadamp3s ) .

Regards,
Brent