Mo choices, mo music!

by Dee in Opinion Posts, Top 10, Uncategorized

It’s the same thing every year; XPN puts on a four day music festival and then we’re asked to make lists of our favorites of eight hundred, eighty five something or another into to a “top ten” list format based upon our preferences.

The first year it was songs, and then it was artists, and last year, for some ungodly reason we were supposed to compile our “Top 885 Magical Musical Moments”, and no, I still don’t understand what the hell they were talking about.

What I do know is that the “Top Ten” from any music lover’s huge and varied music collection will invariably include The Beatles, Dylan, Clapton, Springsteen and Joni, since they’re always there during the playback.

I don’t understand this either, since this is when XPN turns into any generic “classic rock” station on the dial. 

I understand the power of certain musicians and bands; there are times when all you want to do is listen to your favorite CD, over and over again. As a music lover, we know that what you choose to listen to comes to you by way of your environment as well as your mood.

And, now we come to XPN’s latest list: choose your ten essential XPN songs

I’m going to take this a step further and interpret this as, “Choose Your Essential Triple AAA Radio Type Songs”.

While it doesn’t make it any easier to choose tunes, it makes me free not to choose The Beatles, Dylan, Clapton, Springsteen and Joni.

So, if given the choice, who would you choose not to listen to?