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I'm sure you've all seen the "If you like so-and-so..." feature at Amazon. Just for shits and giggles, have you ever plugged in bands that you absolutely can't stand to see if their fans like other similarly reviling tunes? For example, you plug in Ace of Base and see that these people fawn over other vomit like Vengaboys, Aqua, Spice Girls, etc. Yeeesh! Predictable but frightening nonetheless.

Is there a gene that causes this? What seperates us from these creatures? Could we have been one of these poor souls but for the chance rearrangements of our parents chromosomes? I don't mean to come off like a snot, but it's a pretty damn funny excercise.

Ooh, I just tried "Rick Astley". You get Taylor Dayne, George Michael, Hall & Oates, Richard Marx, etc. It's like these people grew up in the goddam bizarro 80s!

While I may not personally care for some, or many artists, the next person finds to their liking, it's true even with music, one persons' trash is another persons' treasure. I too have always noticed this with Amazon, it's actually a good thing when you a

I know that Hall and Oats produced some slush and one had a sad moustache, but come on, surely there was a slight new wavei-sh edge to some of their tunes: i'm talking about the use of keyboards and drum machines on some tracks.

Any other fans of "I ca

I'll defend I Can't Go For That, it is a stellar pop song.

I find the Amazon feature to be more useful with books than music. Amazon isn't going to suggest some weird musical obscurity that I haven't heard about (unless I'm trying to muddle through

[quote][i]Originally posted by neworder[/i]
<br>Any other fans of "I cant go for that", out there????
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To each their own musical taste. Grunch, I know exactly what you mean about being in a record store and hearing a good tune. I also always look around and see who might be enjoying the music that's playing. And the answer is: not many others.

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I too am not only guilty of running up to the counter to ask what's playing, but I've had that happen when I was behind the counter. There's that scene in High-Fidelity when they play the new Beta Band EP and the main character goes "now watch, we'll sell

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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's just not that complicated. Hall & Oates does indeed suck ass IMHO...that's "IMHO" with a capitol I-M-H-O. I don't even think it has to do with taste. I think it's an inherent quality of their music, like how

[quote][i]Originally posted by jfiber[/i]
<br>I too am not only guilty of running up to the counter to ask what's playing, but I've had tha

myirwin, I respect your H&O opinion, even thoughI clearly disagree.

jfiber, I loved that scene in High Fidelity with the Beta Band comments, and how they panned around the store and you could see people bopping their heads and grooving to it. That was

You're being too nice to me Grunch, but you know I'm only trying to foment a clamor about it.

But definately ditto on High Fidelity. I hope you get to read it too. I mentioned on another thread awhile ago about this funny interaction from Hornby's boo

[quote][i]Originally posted by myirwin[/i]
<br>I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's just not that complicated. Hall & Oates does

You have to give Daryl Hall some credibility for appearing on Robert Fripp's "Exposure" album. I've always thought that was one of the strangest collaborations ever. Not that their music together is strange, I'm just looking at their careers and the typ