--- Christobal <plattc@optonline.net> 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 was only just thinking about something my comrade
Ellen, my music-discovering buddy in high school,
related to me years ago: she remembers distinctly
being 17 or so and standing in a record store with
money for only one LP - the two she had in her hands
were 10,000 Maniacs "In My Tribe" and Television's
"Marquee Moon" (because she liked the covers) and she
ended up with 10,000 Maniacs, a choice that informed
many of our musical choices for the next couple of
years. Which makes me wonder: at that divergent
moment, could we have created a tendency to like
harder-edged, ultimately more 'indie' releases than we
ended up liking for many years thereafter? might i
have more handily impressed the music-loving boys in
my dorm years later with my knowledge of proto-punk
instead of my knowledge of folk-rock and todd
rundgren, or, at that point, did all roads just lead
everybody to Husker Du?  An interesting query, though
probably not a very profitable one.

just noodlin,
--kelly

np: alkaline trio - damn, i love a rock crooner.  "all
on black" is one of the flat-out coolest songs i've
heard this year.


=====
oderint dum mentuant

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