Once, while talking about the amazing film Lost Highway and its soundtrack with a former acquaintance, the conversation went like this:
Me: – I love the soundtrack, especially the David Bowie intro and I’ve already gone and bought a Rammstien CD off that new “interweb” thingy.
FA:- Really? Well I really liked Eye by the Smashing Pumpkins
Me:- Yeah? Me too. Over all it’s a good soundtrack
FA:- Well if you like the Pumpkins, you should get Gish. I rate it. You should like it
Regular readers will know how I feel about being told that I “should” like something. But this is one of those rare occasions where I did actually like some of their songs. Not all of them but some. Again, given limitless time to listen to music I probably would have developed a taste for them. Sadly real world pressures meant diminishing time to devote required attention to new music and the changing way we consume music (focussing on individual tracks rather than whole albums) meant eventually the Pumpkins slipped by me.
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