Music, books, internets

I'm reading "The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism", and when I hit the bits on developing hip-hop I thought - hey Youtube is my friend, I'll go see if I can listen to the tracks by Afrika Bambaataa and the Sugarhill Gang and whatever from the chapter that they're talking about (see, joyless teachers - online multi-tasking can make your reading a MORE engaged experience!).

And while I was playing around, I suddenly remembered how much I'd liked the album I had by the Anti-Pop Consortium back when I was a senior in college. (I had the album Arrythmia, which some googling tells me was I guess one of their more successful ones, I haven't listened to any of the other albums, as my music buying tends to be strictly episodic.)  That was the music I listened to over and over while studying late at night for my Political Science comprehensive exams.  And my neighbor lent me the Roots.  And then of course it was all about the Old 97s just as often, or Richard and Linda Thompson, or Cake.  And Drowning Pool, because I liked "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" enough during the five different movies that used it in their credits or whatever that I went out and bought the album.  I'm probably the only person out there who associates that song with reading the Fairbanks history of China.

My musical tastes, like my reading tastes, have always been a little, umm, strange.