Also, for some reason, this jars a stoney/cynical notion from undergrad daze, to wit: What do you think would happen if you were to raise a child making sure at every turn that they never ever intake any disney entertainment?

One person’s important music history is another’s meh.

+1 me.

Even the “heard of them/haven’t heard them guy” seems to be saying that he uses that line a lot, not that he hears it. Myself, I use it whenever appropriate, than follow it with something along the lines of “What’s good?” or “Where should I start?”

Anyways, I feel that I’m reasonably good about back catalogs, though it’s intimidating. The back catalog is so huge. That’s where I’m doing my exploration now and it seems as if every album found necessitates the purchase of five more albums.

What I’m really embarrassed about is my lack of depth w/r/t Classical music. I know fewer than a dozen pieces. Laaaame.