Well there you go. I had no idea he was anything other than a title of a replacements song. Never was a replacements fan.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
I laugh at the idea that, as complete supreme dictator of the music played where I work, my co-workers could have their own thread like this online somewhere. ("Who the F&#* ever heard of Dregs, Vertu, Jan Hammer OR Jerry Goodman?!")
Tupac. I've never heard him.
I think another aspect of the phenomenon is certain bands being huge on one side of the Pond and almost unknown on the other side.
Pretty many for me. I've never knowingly heard Judas Priest.
But I've been hearing Rundgren regularly on the piped-in music in the cafeteria at work.
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
Yea, that might be it...but I never watched Miami Vice...but I must have heard the theme tune...I was a Hill Street Blues fan.
It does surprise me that people of a certain age on this site have not even explored some of these really quite big names over the years. If I read about a band I missed back in the day, I will always go and listen to their recommended albums, just to check them out. I don't think there's many that I have never heard anything by.
I may be missing PeterG's point, but Todd, Television, Soft Machine, The Replacements, UK, Mars Volta... These are amongst some of my favourites over the years, and yes they will have limited radio appeal (other than Todd's hits), but they have a broad appeal amongst rock music fans, so I would expect the average interested music fan would have sought them out.
Yea, you are a little bit. I'm not talking about actively seeking out new or even old music or conversely choosing not to do so. My point is about the unavoidable absorption of music in your various everyday environments and situations: i.e. listening to the radio, watching TV, music heard at home, work, school, car, public transport, gym etc, and specifically when music is being played at you and not for or by you.
And it is in those situations that I have never heard the 4 artists I mentioned, although I'm fully aware of who they are and the type of music they play, due to having read about them and having heard their names mentioned on forums and in mags, books etc.
All jazz-rock fusion, not exactly your thing, Peter. Hammer and Goodman were original members of The Mahavishnu Orchestra.
I could fill encyclopedia volumes (remember those?) with band/artist names I've read but never heard... or maybe I heard, but didn't know who I was hearing. And people who have heard those bands and artists (and knew who they were hearing) might look at my CD collection and not know who 80% of those bands/artists are. It's all fine by me.
Never heard:
Sex Pistols
Kanye
Kanye's gf (wife?) - shes a singer right?
Robyn Hitchcock
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