You know I have thought about this several times over the couple years I have been coming in here. Someone will bring up a group or artist. Then another person will begin telling about how lame the group is, another jumps aboard and trys to justify why the first person's comments were valid or invalid or whatever.

It seems to me that it is a bit like food. When I was a kid, I really liked cheeseburgers and fries. Best food in the world to me. I couldn't guite figure out why other resturants even sold other food, they were obviously missing out on Cheeseburgers and fries.

Later, I found steak to be a lot the same way, best thing ever, no need to even sell other foods (except cheeseburgers and fries, which I still had a fond place for)

Once exposed to Mexican food, and Italian food, and Greek food, and Chinese food, etc. The revelations continued. Tried French food a couple times and hated it. ULtimately have grown to absolutely love French food. Does this make my taste for food to be sophisticated? Not in my opinion. It is all in the eye of the person who is enjoying the food. It is a journey, not a destination. I still have a taste for a big old greasy cheeseburger from time to time, though.

I think music is much the same   (you can plug in wine, painting, hobbies,vacation spots, whatever one person thinks is good and another person thinks is pure crap.) There is no accounting for taste.

When I was a music major back in the 60s, I liked Wagner overtures.   Most of my classmates turned their nose up to this as pure crap. My tastes were obviously not very sophisticated if I liked Wagner. Fact is I like big music and brass, and at that time that fit my criteria. Now since then I have found some of the music to be not as interesting to me as it was in 1967, but that didn't change the music. It was my difference. You can call it growth, but it probably shouldn't have the positive connotation of growth, because I am not convinced that all change in taste over the years is necessarily for the better. It is just change.

Does this make any sense to anyone but me? I like the Limeliters, by the way.