I get this feeling sometimes that people think I only listen to electronic music and Japanese music. Lately, it's kind of been like that. Something happened in the early-mid 90's that introduced both of those things to me at the same time. It was like I took a double shot of Aphex Twin and Pizzicato 5. That was a real eye opener time for me. Before that I was way into finding out about indy rock and all manner of hardcore and noise. If it was loud and crazy, or soft and emotionally disturbed I had to hear it. I had a period before then when all I listened to was the blues. Before that I think I spent a year on Pink Floyd and after a time realized I identified more with Syd Barrett than Roger Waters, which isn't how I went into it. When I worked at a comic book store in the early 90's I developed an insane compendium in my brain of classic rock and 70's music thanks to 92.1 KKEG. I got way into obscure hippy music for a time in the early 90's. In the late-ish 90's I got really into lounge, exotica, swing, ragtime, and all kinds of good feeling music. Over all this time I got into tons of obscure or weird music from schizophrenics, outsiders, and social misfits. I had a moment when I revisited disco. I shunned it for years because I thought it was a sign of a time of my parents that I really didn't care for. I like it now. Because of my older brother I was exposed to a lot of speed metal, thrash metal, heavy metal, and hair metal. I still have a lot of his Iron Maiden posters. Because of my mother I unfortunately know all the words to most pop country music from '87 until '94. In the 2000's I have explored other things. I had a huge glam rock revival moment for a year where I looked up bands that weren't as well known as Bowie or Gary Glitter. I definitely went through a funk stage trying to find everything I missed out on. I've never been that big on hip-hop because jr. high and Eazy-E left a bad taste in my mouth. I was really into breakdancing when I was a kid though and always loved Grandmaster Flash and a slew of electro artists. I went back and revisited that too. I've found that I tend to like hip-hop more sometimes when it's just left of center and a little weird. I'm rambling now but I just wanted to let you know that I do listen to other music. There wasn't a reason to say so. I just noticed a pattern and felt like saying something. I go through patterns. I also went through these phases: Brazilian music, French music now and in the 60's, Acid House, all kinds of Jazz (chaos, free, fusion, classic, acid...), a tiny amount of Klezmer, New Zealand rock, Industrial and post-Industrial, New Wave, No Wave, post-punk, slow core, folk core, reggae, African music (all sorts), (insert nation here) music, and a zillion other things I can't think of off the top of my head. Anyway. I really just wanted to post some Sebadoh songs because I fucking love them. It kind of turned into this ego stroke post, though. Whatever. Hope you enjoy the tunes.
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