I thought you were heading to something like the movie Sliding Doors -- if 
Ellen had bought the Television album instead, how would her life had turned 
out?  I think there's something to that -- I think that a few things shaped 
my liking more obscure music -- my first favorite band was Sweet -- though 
they had some hits, they had plenty of flops, but I stuck with them.  My 
high school radio station got service from CBS, so in 1980, I got to hear 
bands like Psychedelic Furs, Adam and the Ants, Four Out of Five Doctors, 
etc. -- it clued me into the fact that there was plenty of fine music that I 
would NEVER hear on the radio.  In conjunction with Creem and Trouser Press, 
it set me off on my musical path...

Mike Bennett



Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com





>From: kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: seminal music
>Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 08:24:13 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>--- 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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