--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, Not Lame <popmusic@n...> wrote:
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Discuss.


  Conversely, I read Greg's post and identified with what he said. I 
too was born in 1959 and likewise I have heard a few releases (I have 
NOT heard the Edward's disc by the way) that ape Costello and I can't 
help but think "well, wy bother, maybe I'll listen to Elvis 
instead".  I took Greg's slant more about his own personal preferance 
then anything else. That is, yes all music channels things before it 
to different degrees. That we each have deep loves of certain artists 
of old and loves for current artists that channel the past.  Yet, I'd 
argue the other side, that if one artist reminds me of Eric Carmen 
and I DIG it fine and yet another reminds me of Elvis Costello and I 
don't, then that's really just my tastes.  Willing to sample it but 
I'd rather not force it.  I really like Franz Ferdinand but honestly 
I sometimes think...hmmm, maybe I should put on Gang of Four.
   I wonder if for some of us the key is what age we were when we 
fell in love with a certain artist combined with the uniqueness of 
their talent. That's what Greg's post has me contemplating..
Thinking out loud here but..
   I know that some of the music I love has flavors from things I 
loved in my childhood. Granted, I know that sometimes, something 
might sound "to retro" and I won't like it. But in a general deeper 
way, I think music that touches or recaptures the feelings of the 
joy/passion from my youth, grabs me in such a manner. It's almost an 
organic thing.  While my love for Costello and the like came later in 
life and was somehow different. I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe it's 
because it was the framework for seperation from childhood and marked 
my college years. Thus, it is also kind of "holy" period of music for 
me but yet marks something very different in time and in my hardwired 
feelings for the music.  I don't totally know. Maybe it's just that 
Costello was so dam good.. :)

Steve D