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No, that's entirely wrong

I got you confused by the term pop whore. By that I simply meant I like music... how to say it.... in the UK in the old days they had a term (and a show) called the old grey whistle test.

They'd go out behind the studio, find a bum, play him a tape of a song they just recorded and if he could whistle it back on just one hearing then it meant it was catchy and would likely do well. Music is supposed to have a hook, that's what makes pop music. It's supposed to have brilliant instrumentation, good, if not insightful lyrics. It's supposed to be a celebration of what music is and how we feel about it, that's why it's called pop (popular) music.

That said, what I like runs a very broad spectrum and you probably wouldn't consider a lot of it "pop". In any case none of it is anything you have ever heard of before, and we're talking hundreds of bands and thousands of albums. How is that good?

I also did not say I want to rely on anyone. I simply said it shouldn't be an F'ing ordeal to find new stuff, and it IS an F'ing ordeal. Finding something good is like panning for gold in alaska. You can spend a week, hell a month, looking and get nothing. There is no reason for it to be that difficult, and as I said, I own thousands of brilliant things you'll never own or know about. That bothers you not at all? You're OK with being cheated out of that much?

Here is an example. Brilliant Indonesian band named Mocca, they normally have a bit of a jazz tilt and this is a song they did with swedish band Club 8 (also brilliant). Lablel it what you will, to me it's brilliant and a crime nobody has ever heard it. If you like it that's unfortunate as the LP it was on is OOP and they likely won't make them ever again. Again, what is good about that?

Note, the first 30 seconds is a commercial - Mocca

One of the best albums of the past 20 years was Cafe Regio by the US band Holiday. Never heard of them or it? Don't feel bad nobody else did either. Just 100 hits Holiday

I just hope you don't start looking for a used copy, they tend to start at $100

What may be the best album of the past 20 years is "Now that we're alone" by the band Fine from Barcelona Spain. A whole 297 views...

Seymour Why?

What a gorgeous song that is.

There is nothing good in the fact that great people have formed brilliant bands and cut titanic albums and nobody knows it. You being content and happy not withstanding.


It's all about the music...



Edits: 07/20/12 07/20/12 07/20/12

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