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Your taste in music is shaped by the crowd
New Scientist ^ | Feb 7th, 2006

Posted on 02/09/2006 12:23:22 PM PST by laney

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To: MadCharity
Is this how my parents felt?

It's probably exactly how your parents felt.

And how their parent's felt.

And so on, and so on.
41 posted on 02/09/2006 3:53:23 PM PST by birbear (You know what? This is crap. We're going to stop this.)
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To: laney
say about us face to face

Saying is one thing. Doing is another.

Someone tries to harm me or mine and they won't be running anywhere.

Have I mentioned that Mohamed had sex with goats?

*Waves to Achmed*

42 posted on 02/09/2006 3:55:09 PM PST by Michael Goldsberry (Lt. Bruce C. Fryar USN 01-02-70 Laos)
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To: birbear

Doubt it..Brittney's Musical career is over and she was marketed as a singer through the Mickey Mouse Club..A novelty act she was no matter who followed her..The Oriental Kid on American Idol that sang She bangs She bangs also had a following, any no talent can be famous if they are marketed correctly....

There will never be another Santana Beatles, Stones Zepplin Frampton, Bob Seeger the only talent you really see now is in Country Western Music or a Solo Singer.


43 posted on 02/09/2006 3:58:17 PM PST by laney (*never ride your horse faster than your guardian angel can fly*)
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To: Michael Goldsberry

LOL..I hear ya!


44 posted on 02/09/2006 3:59:12 PM PST by laney (*never ride your horse faster than your guardian angel can fly*)
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To: najida

Me too, I am a jazz fan and I could care less what people think about jazz and certian songs I like, even fellow jazz fans.


45 posted on 02/09/2006 4:15:53 PM PST by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: laney

Hmmm. I have been wanting to do a study for a long time on how songs effect people's moods. Does it only apply to certain people or could it effect a group? Can certain songs actually calm almost anyone? What about those songs that men only listen to because they get women in the mood. I have noticed those songs often have the same type of tempo. So is it really the lyrics or is it the music itself? I don't know where I would start, though.


46 posted on 02/09/2006 4:24:11 PM PST by HungarianGypsy (`)
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To: laney
Well, when I was in high school in the early '90s, it went something like this:

Private High School (I attended one): Alternative rock, with a few kids into Acid Jazz and techno.

Public High School: Hip Hop, with the honors students typically into Alternative.

47 posted on 02/09/2006 4:25:50 PM PST by Clemenza (I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...)
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To: najida

Rap and what I like to call the "Mexican Polka" that is often heard blasting from Mexican parties. It's the same constant beat. It's so tedious and just -- awful!


48 posted on 02/09/2006 4:26:28 PM PST by HungarianGypsy (`)
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To: laney
There will never be another Santana Beatles, Stones Zepplin Frampton, Bob Seeger the only talent you really see now is in Country Western Music or a Solo Singer.

That's both true and false.

There will never be those artists to YOU because they were special to you at your time and place in history. There will be artists that have the same following they did, have the same impact, have the same "IT" that defines music for a generation or longer. It's bound to happen. It always happens.

Most likely the new "IT" won't appeal to you (if it even occurs in your life time), and you'll poo-poo them, and you'll say they'll never measure up to the Beetles, Stones, etc. But they will. History always repeats itself. Even in the arts.

I wasn't alive when the Beetles burst on the scene. But I'm sure the adults at that time thought the Beetles were a fad, that they didn't measure up to THEIR generation's music.

There were those who said Sinatra couldn't sing, that his career would be a flash in a pan. They were proved wrong, too.
49 posted on 02/09/2006 5:34:36 PM PST by birbear (You know what? This is crap. We're going to stop this.)
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To: Dashing Dasher
Wonder where this could be????
50 posted on 02/09/2006 6:34:02 PM PST by laney (*never ride your horse faster than your guardian angel can fly*)
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To: birbear

Not tur, now a days most artists are one hit wonders or bands should I say...Those other artists you mentioned lasted years and years...
Can you say that in todays music? No

Brittney and Jessica will be long forgotten and rap artists change like catepillars, the people I mentioned as well as yourself have lasted into the next generations..

Most of the 80's artist are long gone with the exception of Prince and Madonna...


51 posted on 02/09/2006 6:41:42 PM PST by laney (*never ride your horse faster than your guardian angel can fly*)
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To: laney

The Busy Body shop is funny! LOL!


55 posted on 02/09/2006 7:49:46 PM PST by phantomworker (COURAGE is not the lack of fear, but knowing there is something more important.)
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To: phantomworker

(wink) thought I would check in before I hit the rack...I will just say I am amazed daily by what I learn from people in cyberspace, I learn things about me from people who have never ever in thier entire life met me or spoke with me, telling me what I am like what I do, what I look like what I live like..WOW never knew I had met so many clairvoyants....

The gall is that my bud wants (let me re-phrase that) she's not my bud, I would never be friends with a chick like her, and let me tell ya I am the type that pretty much gets along with everyone. Anyways she would like to tell me what sites I should go on where I don't belong , the real agenda is that she is burning with anger that I am on FR and she isn't...Pays faxi to humble yourself to people learn how to be nice you get alot further in life with people, but you are so book smart I guess you lost you're ability to have an ounce of street smarts or common sense...
So phantom, as yourself I also have learned alot from a Internet Site that has scorned people of the worst kind pretending to be Godly, conservative and productive in life
when all they are is mad as hell they were banned from FR and that a site they DO NOT own won't operate to thier liking or standards.. Hope to see you tomorrow..
Goodnight!


56 posted on 02/09/2006 9:10:24 PM PST by laney (*never ride your horse faster than your guardian angel can fly*)
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To: laney

you probably have a point. I haven't listend to "pop" music in a decade and a half. I'm more of a country fan.


57 posted on 02/09/2006 9:11:45 PM PST by birbear (You know what? This is crap. We're going to stop this.)
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To: phantomworker

For all the Internet Sites that are out there, FR IMO attracts conservatives and decent people all over the world that is why people keep coming back, because this site has something for everyone except Liberal Moonbats that want to tear the country apart.

IMO the dark side has scorned people, I will say that the ones that are trapped in ridiculing people on this site has to do with thier own hostility by not being on FR. I say this because I know some of them while they were posting on FR and the attitudes they have on CP was not the attitudes they had while on FR.... I guess it's like that *Mob* Mentality when every body is beating someone up you join right in and are now part of *The Crowd*.

I say if you really don't like someone or something you move the heck on let it go and live life, you don't keep hounding someone saying it's *Enjoyment* if that's the case then you have some serious issues on what *Fun* is...

If thier husband or wife left them would they hound them because they can't let go? In all honestly a few of them I think are decent no matter what they say about me or us, if they want to come back then humble themselves and return, I have no problem with that.

That site will never grow or EVER be what FR is because people like to talk about what is really happening in the world, they like to have fun and they like to banter with each other, it's called *SOCIALIZING* and if you are a human being it is as natural as breathing air....

Iam glad to be here and to talk with so many different types of people that have conservative values with great senses of humor!


58 posted on 02/10/2006 10:28:39 AM PST by laney (*never ride your horse faster than your guardian angel can fly*)
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To: Chanticleer

I find that I enjoy songs more when they are no longer new and popular. When I don't hear it all the time, I can actually tell if I like it or not.


59 posted on 02/10/2006 10:31:20 AM PST by CharlieOK1 (I hate "Say no to Hate" bumper stickers)
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To: laney

Laney, I know this may be reprinted on CP, so I will try to be as bland as possible. ;) LMAO

You made many interesting points including the following:

1. I guess [CP is] like that *Mob* Mentality when every body is beating someone up you join right in and are now part of *The Crowd*.

2. In all honestly a few of them I think are decent no matter what they say about me or us

3. [FR folks] like to have fun and they like to banter with each other, it's called *SOCIALIZING* and if you are a human being it is as natural as breathing air....

4. I am glad to be here and to talk with so many different types of people that have conservative values with great senses of humor!

I totally agree. Now how any of that! could be bashed on and ridiculed, I will never figure out. ;)


60 posted on 02/10/2006 10:37:07 AM PST by phantomworker (COURAGE is not the lack of fear, but knowing there is something more important.)
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