Thursday, September 04, 2003
Radio Five Live last night (or was it technically this morning?) got talking about music again, which they seem to do quite often for a station based around live news and sport that doesn't play any music. Anyway, they had in a dancer (not sure if he was professional) who danced to rock n roll music and latin music and all other sorts or music (12 hours a week was the figure he kept giving for how often he danced), but who didn't own a single CD or record. Why? Because he didn't actually care at all about the music, merely the dancing, which I guess he kind of saw as exercise / sport. The presenters and other guests were incredulous about this (one of them was Steve Lamacq).
Anyway, the upshot is that they got people to text, email and phone in either suggesting the first record that this chap should buy (I think one of the presenters offered to buy it for him [I texted in suggesting Spirit Of Eden]) and other diversionary anecdotes and opinions about music, whether they like it, if it's essential, how many CDs they own etcetera. But there was one chap in particular, who phoned in and explained how he used to be a music junkie in his late teens and early 20s, unable to walk past a record shop without buying something (Lamacq was nodding with agreement at this, as was I, distractedly). But he'd had an epiphany a couple of years ago (he was still only late 20s I think) and stopped. Not just stopped buying, but stopped listening, and had got rid of most of his records/CDs. He had, he said, taken up reading instead.
I don't know what to think of this at all. And what's more I've got stuff to be doing at work this mornign, so I'm not going to be able to formulate ideas or thoughts on it properly, and will probably forget about it soon enough anyway. But my initial impression was that if you can love music so much tat you can become impulsive about it (and presumably this guy must've had some emotional involvement with it at least) and then drop it like a stone and take up something else, feel no remorse, and what's more state that listening to music is "a complete waste of time" (which is what this bloke said) could you do that with anything/everything else? People? I'm all for the idea of people changing, but...
9/04/2003 09:50:00 am
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