Title questions

So, does the title mean I don't or cannot bring myself to enjoy current music?  No, quite the opposite, you see the fact is I do enjoy, most everything.  Yes even country, some, not all.  I spent 20 years on the radio, in the Chicago area, from WYCA, WCRM, KCFO in Tulsa, WCFL, WAUR to Y-108 to Y-107.9.  I played Christian Rock, Pop favorites, to The greatest hits of the 70's.  Oh and even a stint at WMCB in Michigan City, IN playing MOR, from Frank Chacksfield to Kermit the frog and the rainbow connection.  I've done it all and loved all of the formats as they exposed me to different types of music, and I have always had a rule, which I still live by.  If music is loved by even a few people there must me something about it that is good, and if you open yourself to it, enough to find that place, you grow a little bit.  


I never appreciated or really liked Bob Dylan, so I loaded up my ipod with his discography, and listened over and over again.  I had an epiphany one day while listening to "Like a Rolling Stone", I glanced out a train window and saw a homeless man sleeping in an alley, I realized, incorrectly, that it was about being homeless, and poor...  I mean the lyrics, Now you don't seem so proud About having to be scrounging for your next meal.  Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.  And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it.  Of course napoleon in rags reference to the clothing of the homeless, i rewound it and listened to it with new eyes, and it all fell into place, what a genius.....


Then I read what it was really about, I found out that not only does the Napoloen in Rags line refer to Andy Warhol, but that the song in general is addressing Edie Sedgwick. Dylan & Sedgewick were involved, and he was criticizing her for being one of Warhol's girls.

You see dylans genius is that the way he plays with words, his songs can fit most situations and like true art, you can see it through your own eyes.  So I did the same with 2PAC, Eminem, and others over the years listening for the genius, and have never been disappointed, it's there you just have to find it.

So here's to the search, the journey, after all "When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose!"

Jim

Was listening to Breaking Benjamin, the looks I got...

So, I'm at my desk working on a spreadsheet for something or other and a 20 something walks by, and hears breaking benjamin, and comments, borrowed your daughters ipod???  I looked at her and said, no, it was mine.  At which point she just looked at me, cocked her head and walked on.  I have been a lover of all music for almost 40 years now, I listen to, enjoy and even DJ techno, trance, hardstyle, ROCK, pop, oldies, classic rock and everything else ya can imagine.  For someone with maybe 10 years of "ears" top judge mine, is not only egotistical, but just wrong, I mean am I supposed to listen to Perry Como, and Frank Sinatra???  I don't think so, ain't gonna happen, so move along nothing to see here....and BTW, SOAD was so much better before they started singing opera... I have 50,000 songs loaded in my SAM Broadcaster, and regularly mix blues and metal and something old.  Variety is the spice of life!   **SMILES**