Yet a lot of the very, very musically literate people here aren't familiar with this stuff. Why? Because the world of music IS VAST. Even if you have "big ears" (musicianspeak for wide-ranging, open-minded taste) you can only get to know little bits of it.

There isn't a single person in this thread who, when all is said and done, will have taught more than s/he's learned here. IM(not so)HO.

Nothing to add other than - yes, this.

Thinking about this discussion, I keep thinking of when we tried to pick the One True Music Thread Artist. The one pick no one could disagree on was Al Green. Not so much the obscure elitist choice. But my favorite part of that discussion was the dissing of all the cannonical artists (which included some my favoritest bands ever). Because funny.

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Damnit! I just realized I missed Jon's show this morning for the 20th Anniv. Pt. II. Are you going to archive it like you did the last one, Jon?

Hey, did we actually agree on Al Green? I missed that.

I just wanted to say that I really love all the wide-ranging discussions of various kinds of music that we have in here. I learn a lot from you folks.

Hey, did we actually agree on Al Green? I missed that.

I think we did it by lowering the bar from "everybody likes" to "nobody really dislikes."

There's nothing on my list that's particularly obscure. Other than the jazz albums, basically everything in the first twenty albums was not only a hit but a big hit.

Which, perversely, is probably why I don't own much of it. Tell me Big Star is great, and I'll go find a CD, because I haven't heard them and they sound interesting. Tell me an individual Rolling Stones album is great, I'm inclined to say "Yeah, I heard some songs from it on the radio" or "Yeah, I have their greatest hits." I know in theory I should buy the albums anyhow, but there's so much NEW music all the time that using my limited CD budget to buy 30-year-old albums where I already own some songs seems somewhere between pointless and eat-your-vegetables-ish.

I have no idea if this makes sense outside my head, but there it is.

Because the world of music IS VAST. Even if you have "big ears" (musicianspeak for wide-ranging, open-minded taste) you can only get to know little bits of it

It's amazing. I participated in a CD exchange on LiveJpournal a while back. Of the five CDs I got, there were two where I had never heard a single song. And they all sounded like relatively accessible bands.

I learn a tremendous amount from this thread.

I think we did it by lowering the bar from "everybody likes" to "nobody really dislikes."

Yup. He was the de facto choice because he did not garner a diss.

You don't own Zep IV?! COMMUNIST!

yeah, I'm not large with the Zep love. As I've discussed with DX a bit, 70's rock stuff generally missed me. I do have Aerosmith love, but that's a different thing, isn't it?

Damnit! I just realized I missed Jon's show this morning for the 20th Anniv. Pt. II. Are you going to archive it like you did the last one, Jon?

The server was down so you couldn't have listened even if you'd remembered (unless you beamed to Boston). No worries though! I do plan to archive it over the weekend. I'll post here when it's up.

I don't recognize 90% of the bands Jon talks about

Joe, you ignorant slut!

Not a big Zep fan, either. Dislike most of the songs (except "Livin' Lovin' Maid"), and Plant's voice is like fingernails on a blackboard for me.

I always think I don't know Led Zepplin, but I have never failed to recognize their songs when played for me. I think having the room next to my brother is why. (And why I know far too much about the work of Rush, Syx, Cheap Trick, Kiss and Supertramp.)

The server was down so you couldn't have listened even if you'd remembered (unless you beamed to Boston).

Ah. My beaming apparatus was down this morning, so good thing you are archiving.

Speaking of just loving to see/hear/read/witness people with passion for music. I live in this hardcore vanilla apartment complex. And I always feel bad because I am blasting music at all hours. I especially feel bad because when I get into a song or am making a mix I can play the same song over and over for HOURS. I got new neighbors this week and through the relatively thin walls I can't help but notice they are some hardcore music listening folk. This morning, I keep hearing the same song blasting from their apt. over and over - I love it! I actually turned off my stereo a bit ago so I could figure out what it is. It actually makes me giddy just to think of other music freaks nearby - regardless of say whether they might be single, cute, crushable boys my age living right next to me.

All you non-Zep loving people are KRAZY, btw.