From Mark Stevens Sent Sat, Jun 26th 1999, 21:57
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:05:09 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >I get dinged by my friends when there's a pop song on the radio that I like. >Usually because of the full distored guitar sounds, the mix, or whatever. I >tell them i like a song and they say, yeah but the lyrics suck..."oh, i never >really bothered to pay attention to what they were saying, i'm just listening >to how it sounds..." I know what you mean. I don't exclusively listen to IDM, although it probably accounts for about 70% of stuff in my collection. All the non-IDM stuff I'm into I've bought largely because it *sounds* good, rather than for any meaningful lyrical content or song structure. I always did prefer the female voice to the male voice, so most of my non-IDM comes from female artists -- Cocteau Twins, Throwing Muses, Belly, Tanya Donelly, Kristin Hersh, Drugstore Cowboy, Nut, Luscious Jackson, Scheer, Hopper, Frente, etc. As far as male bands go, there's Blur, Pavement, Radiohead, Delakota, Idlewild, Regular Fries, etc. -- Mark Stevens http://www.sonance.demon.co.uk/