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Howard Tarplin's avatar

It’s also been my experience that the vast (VAST!) majority of music fans I know want only to hear the music they’ve already heard. I make playlists that subtly move them from the familiar to the unfamiliar. Otherwise, you put on Fela Kuti or Ismaël Lo or Los Mocosos and or Yerba Buena or Flor de Toloache or Junior Parker or Kurt Elling or Cake or Brave Combo and they quickly get very uncomfortable.

Bring on the new!

A problem is that back in the 70s fewer albums were released in 2 or 3 genres. And you were able to listen to Electric Ladyland or Live Dead or Santana Abraxis 25 times until you became intimate with every note and nuance. Now, with 100s of genres and sub-genres, and thousands of releases, I don’t have that kind of time. I have to work!

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Sam Colt's avatar

Nice to see Black Keys made the cut.

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