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Topic: Stuff Only I Listen To (November 2001)
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Earl Green
True Believer
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posted 11-11-2001 02:10 AM
   
The November Music update is now online. Now let's get out there and play ball! |
Dave Thomer
Guardian of Peace and Justice in the Galaxy
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posted 11-11-2001 02:15 AM
See, I have to admit, I have a problem whenever people start talking about stuff only they listen to. I can never empathize, because it always seems to me that I pick up on a music act either at the same time as someone else, or as a result of someone pointing them out to me. I mean, yeah, I’m one of the relatively few people I know who listen to Brent Bourgeois’ first album – but I’m sure as heck not the only one I know, because the only reason I ever heard of Brent Bourgeois in the first place is because Earl sent me a few tracks off the album. (I have heard Bourgeois Tagg’s “I Don’t Mind At All” played over convenience store and shopping mall music systems. I still don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.) So I always feel like some late-to-the-party amateur when it comes to music.Now, liking someone that gets criminally underplayed in today’s radio climate, that I can relate to. Butterfly Jones and dada, The Badlees, even Matthew Sweet and Michael Penn – I know some of my friends also listen to these guys, but darnit, everybody should. But anyway, I probably need to consult the sources from the Where do you find your music? thread again. In the meantime, though, I’ll just keep listening to stuff my friends send me, and know that there’s a big pile of stuff only (one or two people and) I listen to.
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Kevin Ott
True Believer
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posted 11-11-2001 02:16 AM
I still like Jellyfish. So there.Unfortunately I lost my Jellyfish CD in the great wasteland where we lose CDs. But I’m reasonably sure that I lost it to someone who borrowed it and then walked out of my life. Probably the same guy that took all of my 10,000 Maniacs discs. But it’s good, because it means there’s someone else out there besides Earl and myself that enjoys listening to Jellyfish (unless he’s using the disc as a drinks coaster, but I’m trying to be optimistic here). I like to think of obscure bands as bands that lots of people just haven’t discovered yet because they’re too busy listening to that Staind nonsense on the radio. God, it really almost makes you wish Eddie Vedder never happened. Right now I’m listening to Maceo Parker, who I first heard while walking around the streets of Altoona a few summers ago. A woman was pruning bushes in her front yard and listening to what may well be the funkiest music I’ve ever heard. So I asked her what it was, and a few weeks later found myself in a music shop in Portland, Maine, hunting through Maceo’s discography. Don’t ask. This all kind of goes to that “How do you find new music” thread we started a while back. I think it’s great that Earl’s opened my eyes to these guys. It’s better than turning on the radio, that’s for sure. With the exception of WXPN, of course. |
Earl Green
True Believer
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posted 11-11-2001 03:59 AM
Fear not, true believers, for an all-inclusive four-disc Jellyfish box set is due around Christmas of this year. No fear - unless you're my checkbook (or Kevin's). | |
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