Post #221785 by kooche on Sun, Mar 19, 2006 2:39 PM

music is as personal a vice as painting or food or sex or drugs or religion - and in fact we should all be happy that there is an "unusually experimental" section in the local record store unless of course you live in a one horse town that doesn't have a body of saltwater nearer than 500 miles away...then you are an ebay collector whore who doesn't know how many souls have died happily worshipping the sun outdoors AND listening to music while they are in the light of the it - if someone is trying to turn you on to music like this post is trying to i would imagine that any reaction short of an enthusiasm for the joy of sharing is simply childish and that can so readily be dismissed by anyone with a smidgen of self esteem - it's about discovery and you know what the Spanish Explorers responsible for Manifest Destiny said about Columbus in his day ...

radio is pretty cool - it's history is great - but if you take it too seriously today or try to placate your fellow listeners you are sad - i don't want to dictate what good or bad taste means for he or she because i only know what i personally love - we don't care who you are or what you think you know when it comes to music unless you are a music maker - it's easy to come off like a liner note author and not a radio show programer of original distinction - but hey i haven't listened to any exoticasts so i may have a second career in ventriloquism starring my ass end and not even know it - doubtful but possible that i will play the worst 3 hour set under the worst audio enjoyment conditions imaginable - i have wax but i won't tote - at least not this time but possible for the 45th anniversary party at the tiki ti - i like to listen not look at sleeves because i do that at the store/swap

why haven't i listened to any podcasts from the exotica extravaganza that is before me here on TC?

i like to pick my own plays just like you - but i buy from every distinct music genre because it's an adventure EVERY time weather or not it's a Maori school girl's choir - a drum circle in cuba - or some 18 year old brats from Hollywood - why deny yourself that? i put ears to playlists from amigos or amigas ALL the time and it merits the joy of the one hit wonder that had me hooked as a music lover as soon as i was getting an allowance - the internet is for all of humanity not just the elitist EZ listener - i want reading copies or mp3s and i have a bundle of that thanks to TC and years and years of collecting - no MINT LPs 45s or 10"s for me thanks

miss the boat or not it's disembarking this wed and Henry Mancini is on it!