Saturday, February 6, 2010

Right now I'm listening to a recording of my brother's a cappella group from high school. They did a cover of "Table for Two" by Caedmon's Call, which I guess is a Christian band. I've never really been into Contemporary Christian music, partially because my parents have always kind of looked down on it. We're definitely Christians, so it's not the meaning of the music, but the fact that a lot of it isn't all that great musically--it gets a free ride because of its content. In the past couple years, though, I've been listening to a lot of CCM. It's actually pretty good most of the time. Which leads me to my point: you really have to be open minded with music. I've gone from early 90's pop to alternative to classic rock to country to indie to musicals and everywhere in between. My basic criteria is that it makes me happy or it makes me think, and lyrics are very important. Currently I'm obsessed with the 500 Days of Summer soundtrack (although I hate the end of the movie), and Dave Matthews Band (I'm in college in VA, it's a given). So as someone whose favorite band went from NSYNC to AC/DC in about 2 years...keep an open mind, you might just find out your music collection was missing something awesome.

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