bellyeyed wrote:i for one anyway was only thinking of burning a compilation cd,standard size.its not about forcing your own taste on anyone,you dont have to like it.for me its just about being openminded,giving something that maybe you woudnt buy a chance to impress.i would be happy to receive one from you bob,[a song called snardbafulator has to be good]im always on the lookout for new[or old]things.receiving a physical copy of a song has a hundred times more value for me than a link and would make me dig deeper a lot faster.
Wow ... thank you. What a decent (as in upright, not mediocre) sentiment. Alright alright, every last one eh yez has done a bang-up job of dissuading me of my pissant attitude about sharing CDs. Well done. Consider me among the converted ...
I'm going to be painfully honest and self-reflective (to a fault as usual) and admit that most of this came because I'm pissed off. I'm pissed off my CDs were stolen, I'm pissed off that I'm still unemployed and can't find a job, I'm pissed off that I have virtually no extra money to spend on music (although the $20 that just went to Leader I consider a non-negotiatable obligation to [the] Cardiacs community), I'm pissed off because it's been so long since I've bought anything new.
There is, though, another aspect to my feelings about this which comes out of, I think, genuine consideration. It's one thing to post a link and if people ignore it that's fine. But if somebody's going to go out of their way to burn you a CD and spend money on postage, you owe that person, at the very least, a considered, sympathetic reaction to their efforts. And I'm just not very good at going "oh thank you so much for that, it was very ... nice" if that runs contrary to my honest feelings about the music. You've prolly noticed by now, bellyeyed, that I can be quite the critic. And this sounds like I'm being terribly pre-emptive -- and I am, because I know my tastes. I can be surprised, surely -- I just listened again to The Royal Treatment Plant, they still kick my ass and they're straight-ahead girl pop, but I'm left tepid by Field Music and North Atlantic Oscillation, both of which are more sophisticated and "proggy" -- and people here are going nuts about them. But nearly all the time my positive reaction requires an above-average degree of formal complexity.
If you're willing to accept this about me and not take offense, I guess that's all I'm really asking.
And yes, I think "Snardbafulator" is an awesome tune -- but I'm Snardbafulator's daddy and I'd love li'l Baffy even if he decided to reach into his diaper and fling a poo in the face of a Buckingham Palace guard
Your mileage may vary -- especially if you find the sound of a 2-operator FM "synth on a chip" as grating as everyone here (including myself) apparently does. If you have a bizarre fetish for continually unpredictable rhythmic patterns like me, though, you might also get past that ...But at the very least, check it out on YouTube first so you know what you're getting yourself into ...
Bob
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all the better,ye dont know what yeve let yerselves in for