Music

Music is really important to me. I've got some music playing whenever I get a chance to. I'm particularly interested in music of the early 1980s.

It's tough wading through tons of formulaic product in search of artistic musical expression. I've had to rely heavily on college radio and other not-for-profit channels. These days I mostly listen to unpopular artists in popular genres -- though my last great obsession was with the Squirrel Nut Zippers, popular artists in an unpopular genre!

I think it's interesting to see the range of different artists that individuals are interested in. All I've got here, though, is a nonrepresentative sample: a very non-comprehensive list of artists I like and who have webpages that I've managed to stumble across. I've grouped them by the decade when they started recording or the decade that was their heyday:

!!! (a.k.a. Chik-Chik-Chik) ·· 1905 ·· Against Me! ·· The Checkers ·· Chomsky ·· Dirt Bike Annie ·· Lance Lockarm ·· MC Enemy ·· Nik Phelps and the Sprocket Ensemble ·· Nikka Costa ·· Opti-Grab ·· Reagan National Crash Diet ·· (The Real) Tuesday Weld

Adam Ant ·· The Art of Noise ·· Rick Astley ·· The B-52s ·· Beastie Boys ·· The Beat ·· Blondie ·· The Bobs ·· Billy Bragg ·· Kate Bush ·· Camper Van Beethoven ·· The Cars ·· Sheila Chandra ·· The Clash ·· Bruce Cockburn ·· Cocteau Twins ·· The Cure ·· De La Soul ·· Dead Can Dance ·· Dead Kennedys ·· Devo () ·· Thomas Dolby ·· Echo & the Bunnymen ·· Eurythmics ·· Indigo Girls ·· Fela Kuti ·· Gang of Four ·· Bob Marley ·· Midnight Oil ·· New Order ·· The Pogues ·· The Police ·· Prince ·· Run-DMC () ·· Michelle Shocked ·· The Specials ·· Bruce Springsteen ·· Spinal Tap ·· The Stranglers ·· Tvlking Hevds ·· The The ·· The Tubes ·· UB40 ·· Suzanne Vega ·· Violent Femmes ·· Whodini () ·· XTC

The FBI investigated "Louie Louie" for obscenity.

As a kid I played the piano and was heavily into classical music, especially the works of Beethoven, Bach, and ragtime composer Scott Joplin.

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