From kurt Sent Tue, Oct 19th 1999, 14:11
From kurt Sent Tue, Oct 19th 1999, 14:11
>This is something I'd like feedback on: DOES music necessarily=20 >"grow on you" with repeat listening? I tend to make a snap=20 >decision on the off : skip skip skip through a new release (either in=20 >the shop or at home) and it either gells or it doesn't. I think it happens every which way. I recall hearing Richard Strauss' music= for the first time, and thinking it was the most oppressive pile of= overwrought annoying shit I'd ever heard. Later I became quite devoted to= his music. of course most of my friends (and probably most people on this= list) still find Strauss the most oppressive and pretentious crap= imaginable, and so I skulk about, a pariah. the other thing I find is that few pieces of music work for me the same way= every time i play them. What sounded blissfully perfect at midnight sounded= like crap in the morning. Records that sounded great at the store somehow= died on the way home, never to sound good again. Records that seemed= unpromising sprang to life again later. I'm often foraging through my cds= and records to give some loser another chance. and so I will dive back into the "Warp 10+1" compilation, seeking the= pleasures I've heard intimations of; perhaps they will be mine one day. kurt