I just figured Garth Brooks might be an important figure in, if only as an influence on, new country. I don't know much about it at all to be honest.

I get your point and I do agree. A reason may be that perhaps aside from album clubs, the casual music discussions on the board tend to be a bit shallow. Often, I don't really find them interesting. As an example, I can use the offical The Who thread.

http://www.musicbanter.com/rock-n-ro...ho-thread.html

After the OP, if you look at the replies, even though I like The Who, it's just not interesting reading to me. Okay, there are plenty of examples of the opposite so I'm not saying this is always the case, but generally speaking, this is how I feel. I generally don't feel like I learn anything new and interesting about the bands I like by visiting Musicbanter. However, I may do so from reading discussions in smaller niche communities where people share anecdotes and get into more in-depth discussions. It's like this site covers too much ground to make any one music subject really interesting. I mean, if you make a thread about a band, a bunch of people will post saying they like it or hate it, but if you make a thread where you try to discuss the different line-ups or which version of a song you prefer which exists on different releases, then few are likely to be involved in that band to the point where they'll have something interesting to contribute with. So it generally stays very light and that makes music discussion a bit boring. Threads on current events and so on are actually more engaging when it comes to debating and that's why they're more popular.

I think I would rather our community drain down into the Lounge and remain active than be driven off due to a lack of shared interest in their preferred genres.

I agree with this, and on another note - while it's true that reading a bunch of one sentence love/hate comments isn't that engaging, there's still something to be said for finding and learning about new kinds of music from this forum. I know that since I've joined musicbanter i've found a whole bunch of new bands that are staples for me now thanks to someone who wrote a paragraph and never got much more back about it. Music isn't a really easy thing to debate since it's so subjective - but I don't see the problem. It's as much about sharing music as it is about discussing it.

I think it's a good idea but I don't think it should be implemented until we're done with the upcoming porn subsection.

By all means, please finish that one first.

And you've got a head start and everything!

http://www.musicbanter.com/games-lis...fw-thread.html

Enjoy some music while you wait.

....wow

I'll PM Yac and he'll talk to admin.

We should have a response by December.

Old porn music always has a pretty solid bassist.