Getting into new music

[Emmy May Lombaerts <lombaeg@mail.interpac.be>]

"Mackay Jim - Kan. Av." <mackeyj@kan.marconi.ca> always wondered: 
 
>I too have discovered music that I previously ignored, but only after 
>repeatedly having had it recommended.  I have also found pieces that I still 
>didn't like (get?) after trying them again.  How many times do you try?

          Hmm, that's a hard question. It depends. Sometimes I just get a
feel for a certain album. I don't really like it (for instance I hated
Heather Nova's "Oyster" when I first heard it, whereas I love it now), but
something keeps me putting it on. Like I feel this album is telling me
something, but I don't quite get it yet, so I need to listen until I do.

   Or sometimes, I hate an album on the first few listens, put it away for a
while, and then decide to play it again one day a few months later, and
suddenly it 'clicks'. 

   There are very few albums, I'm friends with straight away (Alanis'
"Jagged Little Pill", Aimee Mann's "I'm With Stupid" and Happy's "Ecto"
being the most recent exceptions to this 'rule'), and most new music takes
quite some time to grow on me. 
   
       Just my two cents,

                         Emmy


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