Re: [Off-topic] Re: [Pan-users] Re: Advice on other lists

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-08-26 01:19, Gerald L wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 2009-08-25 19:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > > Yes, but think of it... you're driving along a lonely country road 
> > > when aliens abduct you and take you up to the mothership. Hu-man," 
> > > they say, "Emperor Xymatvfg!ohq has sent us to des-troy your 
> > > dis-gusting plan-et unless you immediately give us the rare 1986 
> > > recording of 'Still in Hollywood' from Concrete Blonde's self-titled 
> > > album."
> >
> > WTF is Concrete Blonde?
>
> Now I know why you don't understand the need to have it all with you all 
> the time. Your listening moods aren't eclectic enough. You can be 
> satisfied with a few hundred songs by your "favorite artists".
>
> There are those of us who have no "favorite artist". Before portable 
> hard drives I would burn CD's to listen to at work. 10 hours of MP3 
> music per CD and I'd carry several. A single CD might contain 
> Rachmaninoff, AC/DC, Norah Jones, The Cramps, Mendelssohn, George Jones, 
> Concrete Blonde, Elton John, Donna Summer, Michael Jackson, Britney 
> Spears .....
>
> You get the idea. I don't listen to a specific genre or set of artists. 
> And what I want to listen to at any given moment in the day may change 
> dramatically.

I actually do have eclectic tastes.  For R&R, though, it ends around 
1984 and for C&W in ~1993, and never got into rap or whiny 90s stuff.

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