From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!pyuxjj!rlr Newsgroups: net.music Title: a comment about surveys (NOT A GRIPE OR A LIST) Article-I.D.: pyuxjj.212 Posted: Fri May 28 09:36:46 1982 Received: Sat May 29 02:59:46 1982 I've noticed something rather interesting in looking at the three latest surveys on the net (favorite records, movies, science fiction literature). While the tastes of movie-lovers and sf-lovers seem to be pretty well clustered (a significant number of titles appear on a significant number of lists), this was not true of the record lists. What I was wondering was: does this reflect a wider variety of tastes among music lovers, or does it mean that only the more eccentric/eclectic music lovers care enough about music to respond to such a survey? I don't remember seeing "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac, or Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits on any lists, yet these are (why, tell me why?????) extremely popular records, at lesat (that's *least*) in terms of airplay and sales. There are obviously many more styles of music, each with unique (though not necessarily non-intersecting... that doesn't make sense) sets of "fans", than there are unique styles of movie-making and/or science fiction writing (that appeal to distinct groups of significant numbers). But I mass, popular music, see the function of their music as something in the background, not something to take seriously. Everyone I know that I can safely put into this category fails to recognize any of the music he/she listens to, and cannot remember what they had been listening to recently? Comments? Rich Rosen pyuxjj!rlr