Right

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The promised follow-up questions (two of them in fact)

What have you been most right about? (The world may or may not have caught up to you on this)

Does being seen as "wrong" or "right" about music by other people bother you much?

Comments

further to strange_powers

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I probably I agree with strange_powers. I don't mean to take the easy way out, but as I've gotten older and my music taste somewhat broader, I find it more and more difficult to be dogmatic about this stuff. I am quite sure that I am transported by "Quixaberra," one of the songs I submitted in the League of Pop that got a kind of shrug. I am quite sure I'm "right" about it being amazing, but I don't know if other people are "wrong" for not hearing it. (The question might be whether I am wrong for not trying to convince you otherwise, or whether it is even right to expect me to be able to convince you. Can music writing do that, or can it only convince you to listen again/more closely?)

Another thing that's sort of struck me recently following on some of our conversations here - I'm not sure whether my joy is magnified by company or not. I mean, I want you to like it, but I'm not sure I really want you to be there while I'm liking it. (What was that movie/book where they said "people look ridiculous when they're in ecstasy?")

Re: further to strange_powers

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Streets, Avalanches, Eve. But these are just early adopter stuff - I was right about Sound of the Underground being fantastic, but then so was everyone else.

Also these are in context - I was ahead of the curve compared to my local mates, but behind compared to ILXors (though I heard about the first two from the NME!)

I was also right about Portishead being sh1t.

Actually there's an obvious version of this question that I have only just seen: stuff I've loved for a long time. So EG the first time I heard Take On Me or Pump Up The Volume I thought these were life changing records, and I was completely right. Walk this way, not so much.