Stuff that might require some 'splainin: Goin' backward: I sometimes like Tool (probably their videos as much as their songs.) Jonathan Coulton is great. School of Fish's first album, "School of Fish", is fantastic front to back- I think they would have been huge if not for timing (Nirvana hit just as they were gaining popularity, and kind of made everybody forget them.) They Might Be Giants is another band I'm crazy about. I love a lot of eighties stuff- Wall of Voodoo, Stan Ridgway, Oingo Boingo rool (I don't think it's quite fair that when people think of eighties acts they only think of Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran" and Toni Basil's "Hey Mickey".) Robyn Hitchcock has made great music in every phase of his career. I still listen to a fair amount of proggy stuff from the seventies, and still love Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler. I love the Turtles and the Monkees. I don't suppose I could feel afraid to tell _anybody_ about these bands, though. I might not have the energy to bother defend my taste. I often cover the music of some of the above, mostly acoustically, and nobody throws bricks or messy vegetables- it is mostly room keys and underwear. I haven't figured out how to do a Tool cover.
I can't imagine being embarrassed to tell somebody that I'm a "crint" (King Crimson fan, but the word has other uses.) BTW: "Red" is simply the greatest instrumental work made during my lifetime (not an opinion- it's a fact
) "Lark's Tongues Pt. II" is only a shade behind "Red" in my book. Also, _Discipline_ is one of the few "perfect" albums out there by anyone.
through my Rogersound digital panel speakers and Jensen 15" sub...I'll not easily forget the video to "Africa", and you are right--the song is mesmerizing; the lyrics are pictorial and opaque at the same time.
