Obscure Music

[Weetabix]

I don't know that my listening is obscure as much as broad. My kids are constantly saying, "I didn't know you liked THAT."

About the only thing I won't listen to is rap/hip hop or the whiny brand of country. Opera, samba, and the really old cajun stuff are probably the roads-less-traveled that I listen on.

Coworker: "What is that? Did someone step on a cat?"
Me: "No. That's Iry LeJeune."

[Durham68]

I was raised on, and remain a sucker for all things Pop/Rock. I took a detour into Bluegrass and folk, which I still really enjoy, but the radio is so catchy/easy/cheap/mindless.

[Weetabix]

Zydeco is much more my speed.

Zydeco came out of the early cajun squeezebox. Les haricots son pas sale! I never did understand why they were singing about that.

[dfwmtx]

I was a goth in high school, so I'm used to it. One ex-girlfriend looked at my CD collection and declared, "I don't know who ANYONE in your collection is."
I also have a passion for covers, and there's a covers playlist on my I-whatever which includes the original song, followed by the covers. That's about the closest one will come to hearing popular tunes on my playlists.

[Weetabix]

I used to have a playlist called "Two" that had a popular tune and then the original blues version. I need to put one of those together again.

[dfwmtx]

The *only* reason I ever bought a Beatles album is because Laibach covered some tunes off the "Let It Be" album. Their version is so much better.

[Darrell]

Hell, I was listening to John Prine going on 40 years ago. And yeah, I knew the lyrics to Illegal Smile and the other songs on his first album.

Much of my music is on the obscure side. I went through jazz, doper bluegrass and prog rock phases back in the day. Rock's been my standard, though.

[Aesop]

Which is why they ruined PBR, beards and Brooklyn.

C'mon now; PBR and Brooklyn had a head start measured in leagues. The rest I blame on ZZ Top and Duck Dynasty. (The Amish and Al Queda kinda cancel each other out.)
We used to hand out PBRs as a penalty beer for minor social infractions.

[First Shirt]

Hell, I was listening to John Prine going on 40 years ago. And yeah, I knew the lyrics to Illegal Smile and the other songs on his first album.

Much of my music is on the obscure side. I went through jazz, doper bluegrass and prog rock phases back in the day. Rock's been my standard, though.

I bought his first album when it first came out (1970?). And The Darlin' Daughter wanted to do "Illegal Smile" for the school talent show when she was in 3rd grade.

And I drank a lot of PBR when I was stationed in Korea. The Skivvy Nine lounge/dayroom had a beer machine with Budweiser and PBR. Bud was 30 cents, but PBR was only a quarter, so we'd eat breakfast after the last mid, get a few bucks worth of quarters at the NCO club, and drink beer and shoot darts until two or three in the afternoon. If you could make it back to the barracks, you were pretty much guaranteed a good night's sleep!

[HTRN]

C'mon now; PBR and Brooklyn had a head start measured in leagues.

Hipsters were bringing Brooklyn back as a cool place to live.. Opening all kinds of cool places to eat, drink and shop*. Unfortunately, it's also gotten in the process a label a haven for hipster douchebags..

PBR isn't some great bottle conditioned microbrew, BUT for price bracket it exists in, it's damn good, only really beaten by Original Coors(I will refrain from making jokes involving canoes about Coors light).

*Brooklyn has a store for just about anything you can imagine - I passed by an upscale looking place called "The Spray Booth" awhile back, thinking it was bar - nope. When I finally passed it, they actually sold paint spraying equipment. The inside looked like William Sonoma but with spray guns..