"though most of the stuff I record will probably be of interest to me and maybe some people who know me"
It's kind of nice to get partway back to a world in which this is a significant part of the appreciation of music. (Which I suppose ties into stuff urbeatle has been saying for years about whether we really need a big-time commercial music industry.) I've currently got 1,404 tracks in my digital music collection, and 7 of the most played 200 (including the all-time top 1) are songs by Interröbang Cartel or members thereof; one of those is a song for which I personally wrote the lyrics. Most people would probably not be immediately interested in this music, but it doesn't matter.
One of my other favorites is a song that I accidentally discovered that is by some random guys I never heard of on the Internet, and I'm probably this song's only fan. It is the Joe Shlabotnik of songs. I have this on my playlist in between songs by the Rolling Stones and the White Stripes, and it fits perfectly.
I suppose that if you wanted to extract a hand-wringing complaint out of this, you could worry that it is a sign of the fragmentation of society and the loss of a common cultural canon that might otherwise unite the world. Whereas if the opposite happened it would be the suppression of creativity in favor of mass-produced pablum. It's always convenient to find a slippery slope that slips downward in both directions.
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Date: 2004-02-18 02:39 pm (UTC)It's kind of nice to get partway back to a world in which this is a significant part of the appreciation of music. (Which I suppose ties into stuff
One of my other favorites is a song that I accidentally discovered that is by some random guys I never heard of on the Internet, and I'm probably this song's only fan. It is the Joe Shlabotnik of songs. I have this on my playlist in between songs by the Rolling Stones and the White Stripes, and it fits perfectly.
I suppose that if you wanted to extract a hand-wringing complaint out of this, you could worry that it is a sign of the fragmentation of society and the loss of a common cultural canon that might otherwise unite the world. Whereas if the opposite happened it would be the suppression of creativity in favor of mass-produced pablum. It's always convenient to find a slippery slope that slips downward in both directions.