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Conscious, deliberate effort
Dec. 28th, 2009 08:20 amConvo between J0hn D. and Weingarten over on the ILM US #1s thread after J0hn calls himself "out of the loop" for not recognizing any of the songs to hit #1 this year. Convo doesn't go anywhere, but it did get me thinking about my own in-loopsiness/out-of-loopsiness etc.
I've been a music fanatic since I turned nine in early '63, and there's been no time from then until now when I knew what was on the pop charts except when I made a conscious, deliberate effort to do so. And there's been no genre or subgenre that I approached where I successfully felt that I knew it, that I'd caught up with it or would ever catch up with it, be it folk in '64 or FM rock in '69 or no wave in '78 or postpunk proto indie in '81 or freestyle in '88 or whatever was going on in the '90s, or crunk or teenpop etc. in the '00s. But the key word in the previous sentence is "felt," since I may have known some of that music better than some people who thought they were fluent in it.
( Primal estrangement )
I've been a music fanatic since I turned nine in early '63, and there's been no time from then until now when I knew what was on the pop charts except when I made a conscious, deliberate effort to do so. And there's been no genre or subgenre that I approached where I successfully felt that I knew it, that I'd caught up with it or would ever catch up with it, be it folk in '64 or FM rock in '69 or no wave in '78 or postpunk proto indie in '81 or freestyle in '88 or whatever was going on in the '90s, or crunk or teenpop etc. in the '00s. But the key word in the previous sentence is "felt," since I may have known some of that music better than some people who thought they were fluent in it.
( Primal estrangement )
