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