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I haven't really met that many people insightful enough to make interesting comments on songs/bands/albums, that is comments that weren't just extremely binary, 'that songs great, that song sucks'.
Well a few months ago I introduced a friend to Polvo and he really took to them. He got really absorbed into Today's Active Lifestyles and I burned Exploded Drawing for him. And he'd always make these comments about the band comparing them to Sonic Youth. He'd say roughly that Polvo was just the right amount of weird to him, and that Sonic Youth just went too far into weird territory. And that always baffled me because I always thought there were quite several SY records that are considerably tamer than Today's Active Lifestyles. Dirty and Murray St. being the only one that comes to mind.
He also has a really bad habit of making extremely gut reaction statements, that he doesn't really think through. Like after one listen of In Prism 'Beggar's Bowl is the best song Polvo has ever written.' or that GBV's Vampire On Titus was not a good record. In which case I told him to listen to it 50 more times, or until he liked it, whichever came first. And he had this to say about Sun City Girls' Space Prophet Dogon "I can't say anything positive about it." And I almost beat him up when he didn't like the last Gastr Del Sol record because it wasn't rockin' enough for him.
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