Hey, that's unfair!!! My music taste is wide ranging, everyone who knows me is surprised, more wide-ranging than anybody else I know. My car is currently filled with (CDs, I don't listen to individual songs, always to complete CDs) Rory Gallagher (Irish Tour remaster), David Sylvain (ex-Japan), Poco, new Slash, Marilyn Manson, Howlin Rain, Nora Jones, Leonard Cohen (certainly a minimalist), Max Webster, Band of Skulls, Halestorm, new Dr. John (wonderful), Rush, Nickelbag, the new Garbage, Sunstorm, En Vogue (compilation - Free your mind!), a solo album by a Swedish bassist I forgot the name of, Nancy Sinatra, new The Cult, Foghat (Fool for the City remaster), new Coldplay, We are Augustines, Flying Colors, Gary Numan, new Magazine, new The Shins, new Meshell Ndwhatchamacalher and these guys here:
Oh, and them as well:
Is that sufficiently wide-ranging?
You know, my Noah's Ark concept applies to my music buying too, I sometimes even go out of my way and buy stuff I know I will not like and listen to it as an intellectual exercise (like most things by U2). I'm different to most people I know in that way that I do not stop liking something - all the music I liked as a 16 year old I still like. It's just that with each passing year I like a wider range of music. But nothing is lost. From this
to this (though perhaps not every hour of the day!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuHfAqz3TFY&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL4D8A83EB7CF31316is no contradiction for me.
Though this song is probably the one I have liked best among releases in recent years, two Yanks with a bit of Euro bombast,
and a couple of more chords than D Major:
Not to forget "ze Tshörmän zing" of course
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