You know when you just put on a track and can feel that you're gonna dig it? Or, actually, back up - you know how people say 'you've gotta listen to this track!'?, and they build it up to be something great, and you're let down most of the time - some staggering number or percentage that makes you lose faith in humanity and that particular friend's taste in music?
I hate that, because I'm too nice (or too spineless) to say how I really feel about the song to their face (worst song ever, abomination in song form, could crap out better tunes with my musical farts et-cetera and so on and so forth), yet enough of an asshole to just secretly hate that person for the next five or ten minutes; depending on the severity of the letdown/how shitty/length the song was.
...But how good is looking back on that heartbreak, when you're 'musically inclined' friend comes through - and you sit there, unconsciously bobbing your head and raising the volume, and opening up your ears (if that's even possible - maybe good songs do that to you) even wider then the preset holes God/Allah/Homo Neanderthalensis gave you in your head... And you tell all your other friends, 'you've gotta listen to this track!".
That is something I love. But seriously, you guys gotta listen to this track
Download - Phoenix - Neighbors with Devendra Banhart remix
*after writing this, I feel like all my friends will be afraid to rec me something, or they think I'm some sort of elitist - but I seriously like whatever you guys show me - if you know you have good taste, don't sweat it.
**there I go being spineless again, I am the boneless chicken of music critiquing.
***I just like to over-exaggerate to a fault to make my writing more interesting, sometimes fabricating scenarios like the one above (but it has happened before).
****no more explaining myself!
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