[SpamCop-Social] Re: What is your medieval personality.

[Charles]

It wasn't me!  It was Mr K. Mean!

> I'm more of a 17 Seconds kind of guy myself. 

My my my...  Well, I started on Pornography, so it holds a special 
place in me 'art.  Later (not much later) I got Happily Ever After 
(17s and Faith on one tape) and then and then...  Still, I think that 
I was at least on the right track (I mean, the previous year my 
favorite listening was Kasey Kasem on Sundays...).  And, yeah, I 
probably still prefer Pornography to 17s - I had it first!  Ah.  But, 
doood, the bass lines in The Holy Hour (from Faith) are incredible 
(to feel - maybe less so to hear!).  I mean, I can see how you would 
like forest, well, yeah, maybe half of the songs on that album...  
But what about Faith???  Again, I can see your liking half or so of 
the songs, but they are all pretty strong (not quite forest-level, 
but consistantly good).  Ok, ok, they're equally good and carry a 
very common theme...  Hence the double album, surely!

 
> So, would my reverse anecdote be that I found a Led Zepplin II
> cassette in a parking lot in high school and I wasn't quite ready
> for that even then.  It took a few more years until I could admit
> that maybe I didn't absolutely hate them.  I don't like them much
> yet still, but ...  

Reverse anecdote?  Anecdote inspired by my anecdote, perchance?  
Yeah, I'll go with that...  Anywho...  Huh.  Well.  Yeah.  Never gone 
that route...  Been immersed in the surroundings, but never really 
went in for it...

 
> Maybe it was hearing Hurdy Gurdy Man before some concert (probably
> Sonic Youth on their 1986 tour)

Right.  SY in '86.  So, you were a bit ahead of the curve, then, eh?  
They hadn't started in with the pop stuff yet...  Yah, I had a friend 
who did her guilliard thesis on atonals...  She ate that stuff 
(earlier SY) for breakfast...  Hmm.  Dunno - just checking out their 
bio online and it seems that they'd already switched to a pop format 
in '85 or so (according to amg, eh?)...  Hmm...  Anyway, '86 would 
have been in support of EVOL, no?  Can't say as I've listened to it 
much...  Round 'bout that time I was very seriously into industrial 
'music' (while hanging on to goth and punk).  But then, I was still a 
youngster...