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What counts for diversity these days?
Anytime I see someone posting about bands on the edge, or something new and invigorating, it really sounds like its not too far removed from the mainstream music that (usually) they detest. If we need anything on MB (and in life), its musical Monks. We need people who can push themselves to listen to things way outside of their spectrum. And I don't just mean moving it toward more artsy-noise, indecipherable to the masses, but people who listen to things that play against type.
Take the video in my last post for example. How many people would have that on their iPod next to some Wu Tang clan and Oscar Peterson? Probably not many and I think its what makes people's taste in music boring and terrible to talk to them about.
I wonder then, how is it that people find new music? Since I brought up the video above, I'll tell you that I found it digging through a Facebook group about what Boston used to be like. In one photo of a particularly unseemly woman who used to be an elected member of City Counsel, someone had posted that video (given that its her name) and made some humorous comment about it. My question now is, do other people not trip over music like this, or what they do, do they just ignore it?
I'd love to hear back from people on this one but I'm pretty sure I have a better chance of riding a dolphin to work tomorrow, so lets just go with me speculating. Maybe people don't think of it as music, or if they do, maybe its music of a by-gone era, a relic, and it has no worth to them. Like a used up glowstick found on a street after the parade, this once had a purpose, but we've moved beyond.
As I said, I'd love to hear from people how they find new music (if its interesting, if you post boring **** I will haze you), and hopefully what you consider "range" in your music.
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