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It seems that a vast and previously unrealised void in my conciousness has been filled by my joining of MOG. I discovered this place by eaves-dropping on the comments-box of a friend's blog, and can't believe I didn't get my daft hippie ass to this place sooner. Long have I been in search of a place where I can rant about my strange andall-consuming taste for music to people who will actually be willing to listen without pelting me with abusive spam (visualise that scenario freely in whatever way you see fit...)Anyway. As this is my first post and I have no clue what I ought to be writing about, other than having the vague feeling that erm, it probably ought to be about music, I guess this is the place to outline, in short, my musical tastes.I'm be plain. I'm a bit - or a lot - of a musical Fascist.I am waiting to be convinced, for example, that any music produced after around 1977 is a) real music and b) worth listening to. Obviously, there are a few exceptions that I hold near and dear to my heart that go against this concept, but generally, I think that since said year, the music industry has been nosediving into a great big black abyss with gathering speed.I'm not one of these idiots who bases this opinion only on the Beatles, however. The 1960s are probably my musical era of choice, and although I am a huge fan of the Beatles, the Stones, Joni Mitchell, Dylan, Joplin, Hendrix and all the other household-name geniuses that it produced, I am also an avid listener of more middle-of-the-road types such as Donovan, Don McLean, Blue Mink etc. I am a huge fan of Northern Soul... Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, The Supremes, Patty LaBelle and the Bluebells and friends...but also soul music from more southerly labels like Chess and Stax -- it is here that I throw myself before the altar of Mavis Staples and family; the Staple Singers being, possibly, my favourite soul group ever.The two decades on either side also feature heavily in my record collection, though. From the fifties, I am fond of early Rat Pack recordings, solo artists like Tony Bennett and even - shudder - Perry Como... from the seventies, I am a disciple to the works of the late, great Marc Bolan, his old enemy David Bowie, and to the early works of Tom Waits, from the Asylum label.Other favourites include: The Doors (of course), Paul Simon (solo, and avec Garfunkel), Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, Belle and Sebastian, Bob Marley (in moderation)...oh, many others.That about covers it generally. I am prone to rants about how wonderful or awful certain musicians who take my passing fancy are. I will try not to offend anyone...although I do recommend that Franz Ferdinand fans steer well clear of me.
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