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- Diamanda Galas is the greatest living American vocalist.
- Many American listeners of underground music actually have quite conservative taste. Their sometimes wholesale rejection of disco or electronic/dance music shows this. it's borderline fascistic.
- Animal Collective isn't all that hot. Good at what they do, pioneering in SOME ways, but not always enjoyable to listen to.
- Having chops/technical skill in today's climate of lazy DIY hordes is a benefit, not a detriment.
- There IS such a thing as listening to too much music. Many of my friends do this, miss the nuance of a record, write a 1-sentence blurb on their blog about it, and move on. You can't really have a satisfying listening experience if you're frantically downloading every obscure noise release known to man on Soulseek and listening to them one after the other.
- Not entirely relevant, but in my browsing I've noticed that 90% of the balding, geriatric record nerds over at the Goner and Terminal Boredom forums are genre-ghettofied fucks that keep listening to the same garage rock permutations and willfully ignore the more exciting elements of today's new music. They cream themselves over SHITE and then reject it when it gets reviewed on Stereogum or something. Nevertheless, they have turned me on to a lot of great records.
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