Re: putting our biases out for all to see

[dwelch@devnull.mpd.tandem.com (Dan Welch)]

In article <9107191259.AA00301@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL> fingerle@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL (J. Fingerle) writes:
>For those of you that aren't
>familiar with this, the questions is simply, if you were stuck on a desser
>Island, and were only allowed to have ten records/cassettes/cds, what 
>would they be?
>

I can almost do this automatically, since I have thought about this on
my own.  The ten would be (in no particular order):

		Peepshow (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
		Hounds of Love (KaTe)
		Mental Floss for the Globe (Urban Dance Squad)
		Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
		Close to the Edge (Yes)
		Never for Ever (KaTe)
		Soul to Soul (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
		Live at Leeds (the Who)
		Ghost of a Dog (New Bohemians)
		Fifty Gates of Wisdom (Ofra Haza)

Looking at the list, the surprising thing is the dates.  The dates are
(from memory, so don't yell), 1989, 1985, 1990, 1973, 1971, 1980, 1984,
1972, 1990. and 1988.  There's a significant gap in there; from 1973 to
1988, only three albums, two from KaTe and one from SRV, my two favorite
artists (and all three timeless albums anyway).  I didn't even realize
it before, but what happened to music during that span?

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