Still catching up on my backlog from 2010

[andrewducker]

"Happiest elephant plays w/ Ribbon" (Watch on YouTube)

You know, I might even recognise three or four of those songs. Clearly I have not quite yet become Grandpa Simson.

Comments

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I like about six of the songs, I think. That said, it's American so not all of the songs were necessarily as popular here as there. Pop music has some difference between the UK and US still.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Heh, my spotify random play of starred tracks just played two of them in a row, in fact.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

I AM Grandpa Simpson. I didn't recognise any of those and am reasonably proud of this fact :)

[marrog.livejournal.com]

No need to be so snobby - you start down the road of looking down on other folks' musical tastes and you have to start caring about the ones looking down on yours - there's always someone more elite than yaou...

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. You like what you like, and while it's fine to critique music, and know why you like it, thinking that liking certain things makes you a better person is just unhealthy.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I for example don't like unsophisticated, manufactured crap. I also generally don't like modern dance/pop. But the former is only a subset of the latter, and a great deal of the tracks used to put this vid together are far from unsophisticated - and DJ Earworm's work itself is nothing short of masterful.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. There's lots of stuff out there that does nothing for me, but still shows mastery of the genre it's in. And if I'm listening to it because someone else is playing it, I can appreciate that in it, if nothing else.

Also, I can enjoy some music for dancing, without wanting to listen to it for, well, listening. It's not like it doesn't take skill to make music people want to dance to.

It's one of the reasons I get fed up when people slag off Twilight or The DaVinci Code as being unreadable. I mean _I_ couldn't read The DaVinci code (got halfway through page two before wanting to hurl it across the room), but it does a great job of entertaining an awful lot of people, so it must be doing something right.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Here's one that has a bit of a British slant