clearly I should write entries about music more often

[winterbadger]

I'm just sayin'. Quite an out pouring of comments. :-)

It would probably explain a lot to those totally horrified my my listening habits to know that I DETEST commercial radio and have refused to listen to it since some time in the early '80s. I can't abide the aural equivalent of spam that it's infested by. So the only way I hear new music is by being around someone who listens to new stuff or pretty much picking things at random and buying them. And I was married for 17 years to someone who *only* listens to folk and show tunes. ;-)

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[snolan.livejournal.com]

I have a vague recollection of a LJ Friends list scraper that pulled the music your friends are listening to and lists it for you.

I also was recently told about a site that compares your favorite music to other people who liked that music and suggests stuff they also liked to you.

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Many years ago while I was stationed in Misawa, Japan (USAF at the time) our radios would only pick up about a dozen J-pop stations, Armed Forces Radio (Far East Network), and Radio Vladivostok. The J-pop stations made American commercial stations sound great (think re-cycled commercial American radio all sung by teenagers, gag). FEN was even worse, 100% pro-Reagan and pro-military propaganda mixed with recycled American commercial crap specifically chosen to be least offense (which also made it least interesting). Radio Vladivostok was also propaganda (this was the height of the cold war), but Soviet Russian efforts to influence American's in Japan is pretty laughable; the really cool thing is between the English language propaganda, and the Russian language news, Radio Vladivostok played awesome classical music and Russian folk music. Beautiful stuff.

The guys on the base had buddies near college campuses record hours of late night college radio on the stereo tracks of VHS tapes, with Star Trek episodes on the mono and video tracks of the same tapes. We'd listen to hours of 3 week old late night college radio (fabulous stuff in some places) and catch up on reruns.

Really widened my musical tastes.

[winterbadger]

john_arundel and bidger used to come over to my place in the evenings and, under the guise of painting figures, we would all sit around and talk and drink beer. And the two of them would have these fascinating long conversations about music I had never heard of. They'd start with whatever tiny accumualtion of CDs I'd have lying about and discuss the roots of this group and where the sound of the at group came from, and riff for hours about related bands and cross-cutting influences. It was fascinating and eye-opening; I should have been taking notes!