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maxi priest ("close to you"*) and elvis costello!
[yes yes i know i always think ppl sound like elvis costello -- THIS IS BECAUSE WHEN I SAY THEY DO THEY DO so bug-off deffo]

anyway you can reveals yours in the comments

*george benson song i believe

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Meanwhile, why do you start conversations with me and then never reply?

I'm inattentive to just about everything else, possibly because I have no musical talent at all and can't demystify it, but...how do you like it if you don't know what it is? What is it that you like, when you like a song?

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Because I had a column to write, and then another, and then another after that... But yeah, I get frustrated by the exact same thing, my saying something in response to someone and never getting a response back. It's the way things happen around here. But sometimes something you say will percolate in my brain even when I don't respond, and then six years later I will say to you, "Nia, remember when you said..." and I'll give a long, convoluted reply, and you'll have no idea what I'm referring to or going on about. (I no doubt pass over lots of interesting things you say without taking them in, but if you say them I might well go back and find them, at some point.)

how do you like it if you don't know what it is? What is it that you like, when you like a song?

I often don't know. Just as I often don't know what I like when I like a face, or a personality. If I have the time to think hard, I might get an idea; or if other people start talking about the song/face/personality and why they like/dislike it, sometimes through their words I'll get a better idea of what I'm seeing/hearing and why I like it (and also might come to see and hear it a lot better).