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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Tell me about a record that you're not sure whether you like or not?

(erm, that you've actually heard)

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[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

This is a tough question for me, because usually if I'm unsure, it means I like it a little, but not as much as I want to like it -- whereas in the event that I flat-out don't like a song, I have no problem disliking it. I usually have to dislike a song pretty strongly to call it "dislike."

I think the New Pornographers are a good group to single out. So often I listen to their songs and just get nothing from them, even though my brain keeps telling me to like it. When they all go solo, I have more solid opinions of their songs. There's some UK stuff that gets a lot of love around here that I feel similarly about (Girls Aloud usually) that I generally like enough not to be as conflicted about. (I don't need to care THAT deeply about a good pop tune -- maybe it's when there are pretensions to brainiacal cleverness or something that I sour a little?)