Don't worry! Just when you've thought you've hti the top, and nothing more impresses you--then BOOM something hits you--maybe even music you wouldn't even give a second listen to. It happened to me! I listened almost exclusively to country music until 1994, when I checked out a classical album from the library, because I thought "my family would like it." I ended up falling in love with it, and listened to it everyday for over a month--then I became a classical junkie. It happened again with musicals in 1996, rock later that year, and Celtic in 1997. Last semester I was heavily exposed to traditional music of South America--and it happened again! And here I am on Mudcat, picking up bits of music from all over the place! If you think even the music you're playing isn't exciting anymore, look at me! A normal set of songs for me would be "The Fields of Athenry" (Celtic), "Cascaron" (a Andean harp tune), "Shima Uta" (a Japanese folk song) "Longing/Love" (George Winston) "The Royal Garden Blues" (Dixieland Jazz) and "The Way Life's Meant To Be" (ELO rock.) Like Charles Ives' father said "You've got to learn to stretch your ears."

--Mbo