OK, more like Adam Ant, Yaz(oo), and The Cure all got together at Erasure's house.

Lots of Phil Manzanera, too.

A little Folk Implosion.

I prefer "Odd Blood" to "All Hour Cymbals."

Crap. Yeasayer is acclaimed?

I agree with you - I want to find things on my own.

Now I have a dilemma!

I do wine the same way, it's hard to abide a hobby full of people running around shopping based on ratings and sometimes buying the wine I wanted!

We call them point whores. Unable to taste of their own volition, they are mindless zombies who shop as they are told.

Funny thing is, they will snap out of their haze briefly to get mad at you for calling them that.

Stephen, if hype can turn you away....how do you reconcile that with your audio gear acquisitions? (Not being my usual self, actually wondering what your philosophical overlap is in this regard.)

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Stephen, if hype can turn you away....how do you reconcile that with your audio gear acquisitions? (Not being my usual self, actually wondering what your philosophical overlap is in this regard.)

While I am sometimes turned off by media hype, I do have a few friends whose music recommendations I almost always take; these happen to be the same people who influence my hi-fi interests.

Yup, media hype does strange things to hobbies that are so full of people who claim to make up their own minds.

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the only thing that turns me off is the Kanye lauds(in this months SPIN) well, and the fact that they are in SPIN.

but you have good taste, so ill buy and see what i think

Crap, lauded?

Man, what are they, Coldplay?

Now I'm worried.

Track one has the piano from NIN's "Animal," methinks.

The Erasure feel stands out even more pover time.