Have you ever been on Napster, looked at someone’s mp3 collection and just wondered what is up with his or her taste in music? Numerous times I have looked at someone’s list and seen stuff like Pavement, Flaming Lips, Archers of Loaf, Stereolab, Built to Spill, etc. and thought, “this person has pretty good stuff.” I then scroll down the list and see something like an entire live show of Seven Mary Three or some bullshit like that. What gives? I mean I consider my taste in music broad, but how does crap seep into someone’s collection like that? It really makes me wonder how these people discern what is good or not.
I think it is an age thing. For people who are younger than me, Stone Temple Pilots and Bush were once huge and these people probably got sucked into the whole frenzy with the rest of the impressionable youth of the time and ended up being fans.
Now, I am not a music elitist. I honestly feel that whatever music you listen to, be it Mariah Carey, or Queens of the Stone Age, if it makes you happy that is all that is important. But looking at all these lists on Napster it just seems so random. Part of me is jealous. These people get to have more options of music that makes them happy. I have a broad taste in music, yet I can also spot insincere, disposable crap 5 miles away. There is no way you can convince me that Creed is making timeless music. I just don’t get it.
Okay, send those hate letters here.
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