I suppose that is why I love Shrimp Boat and Tom Zé and Roy Wood and others of that ilk so much. They take chances. And something about the chances they take rings true with me.

They follow their muse over the side of the ship in the middle of the ocean. And I love them for it. I'll swim right along with them.

So you like Joanna Newsom then?

i like music that is samey and conformist.

So you like DBT then?

I like indie rawwwwwk, twee pop and sadsackofshit music. If it sounds like Pavement, I'll love it. If it's bouncy and dirty like Belle and Sebastian, I'll love it. If it makes me want to draw a hot bath and settle in with a glass of Dran-O like Mark Kozelek, I'll love it.


But that's about it. Everything else is just okay.

I just like music that's different from Shrimp Boat and Tom Zé and Roy Wood.

Most of us here do like a lot of the same kind of thing. It's what brings us all together. But most of our tastes do diverge at some point. I've taken a lot of crap for my evangelizing of some of the above bands, partly because it's not music that conforms to overall board tastes. But I think you all still do respect my divergent tastes... we all respect each other, I think.

I just got to thinking as to why I do love this stuff that some of y'all don't.
It's just willfully different, but not just for the sake of being so.
It's strange people making music that is true to them and, therefore, strange.
Suppose I share a little of that personality so I identify.

Guess I'm trying to inspire conversation here as to why you love some of the music you do.

Not trying to get snobby, even though I guess you could read it as such.

wait don't you write for billboard

I'm a convergist.

billboard works for me.

I only listen to Ronnie Milsap records.

You heard that new Daniel Johnston yet todd?

Different, but not good.

I'm not cool enough to like stuff that's DIFFERENT.

That's not the same as billboard writing for Katie.

Hey we have almost the same initials. Why is this something I'm just now noticing?

This thread was very necessary

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Have not.
I am very careful when it comes to buying his albums.



About as necessary as www.obner.org

Yeah he has the greatest hits coming out plus this new one. Also The Electric Ghosts which is great. I was really gutted at how poor the new one was though. Look forward to the greatest hits. I still don't have a good copy of speeding motorcycle, so hoping.

i hate music.

I'm starting to think Todd uses a template of a thread and just changes some of the words around.

i tend to gravitate towards people who use traditional chord arangements with a very slight twist.

I like to listen to 50 Cent and Lloyd Banks.

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