I had an interaction earlier this week with a friend of mine wherein I posted a video by a band on my Facebook page, and he kinda took me to task for liking something he considered unfit for human consumption. Under normal circumstances, if someone doesn’t get why I like something (or fails to share my affinity for it — whatever it may be), I’m usually not bothered. But this one really kinda bugged me, as this is a friend whose opinions and tastes I really respect, and it got back to this quandary about the perilous gulf between what’s perceived as suitable for appreciation by discerning music heads and what isn’t. In turn, I started typing out a sprawling, windily detailed post about it, but the draft of said post is on another desktop at the moment, so … you’ll just have to wait for that one, I guess (if I indeed decide to post it). Suffice it to say — LIKE WHAT YOU LIKE!
In any case, herewith a clip I spotted in passing during my week of intense, unexpected stress between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day (which I’m not at liberty to get into). I’d never seen this before, but dating back to 1984, here’s Lou Reed, Jim Carroll and storied Voidoids guitarist/curmudgeon Robert Quine having a bash through Carroll’s perennial punk requiem, “People Who Died” (which I previously wrote about in greater detail here). Ironically, all three of these luminaries have left us.
Play it loud, and have a safe, uneventful and healthy weekend.
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