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ruar ursday • February 12, 1998 The Battalion JlPiii. f i; ■ ■ ■ |B■■I ilHl I fg" Lip l Music LMYSday ^cVXess PanY\arvd\evs ^vock) I at Fitzwilly’s iddlefinger (ska) with Let’s Go Bowling (ska) at The Dixie Theatre Ruthie Foster (blues) at te Crooked Path Ale House , hPt-< • j rl Friday L • Blue Valentine (blues) at Fitzwilly’s • Michael McAllister I (acoustic guitar) at y Sweet Eugene’s Vleredith Miller (rock) with Hadden Sayers (rock) at Dixie Theatre Throwaway People (blues) vith Karmah Jet (rock) at ■flcf The Cow Hop • \faV\e\o (rock) \nWY\ PusYvrrvonkey (rock) at Shadow Canyon • Dexter Freeh'xsh (rock) at The Crooked Path Ale House Saturday ♦ Karmah Jet (rock) at The Cow Hop ♦ Resistors (ska) with Sus pects (ska) at The Dixie Theatre • Ronny Spears (rockabilly country) at 3rd Floor Cantina • High Chicago (blues) at The Crooked Path Ale House Also, be sure to check out Sneaky Pete with the Wednesday-Nite Live Sing Along, every Wednesday at 9 p.m. at The Cow Hop Continued from Page 3 A few honorable mentions dot ted the soundscape. One note worthy annoying song is Bobby McTerrirv’s “Don’t Worry, Be Hap py.” “I hope he’s happy, making the rest of us miserable like that.” Another of the cast-down artists is Alanis Morisette, whose detestable habit of making any song a single grated on several of the poll people’s nerves. “Alanis is the single most whiny person on the face of the Earth, except for maybe Fiona Apple.” One of the standouts was a tune called “McArthur Park,” an odious song from a long time ago dealing with a cake sitting out in the rain and a lost cake recipe. “I guess I’m just missing the point. Even if I understood it, though, the song would stink,” wrote the sole vote. Another unique entry was Weird A1 Yankovich, whose insipid “Amish Paradise” should be forgotten quickly for the sake of humanity. Regardless of how we feel about these songs now, at one point or another almost every group men tioned was a big seller. Some are hot items even today as they are scorned on a campus-wide basis. Sarah Suniga, a worker for Ma rooned Records, recalled one inci dent of buying untouchable music. U Billy Ray (Cyrus) should be punished for this song by being forced to watch people two-step to the club remix.” — Music Polltaker “Once I had a guy come in who bought a used New Kids on the Block CD and was so ashamed,” Suniga said. “He asked for a paper bag and everything.” Music loving (and hating) is not just a personal issue. Some scien tific studies have been performed to study the human response to music. Mary-Claire Maggio, a pro fessor of music psychology at Texas A&M, explained. “You can’t just look at those * MSC Film Society fisie&ettte . . . The 5th Annual j $yt>itl Long Lines! Purchase an Aggie Cinema SJfeason Pass at the MSC Box OlTice for only 15.00. (Docs not include the Texas Film Festival) r iina aturday, Feb. 14 9:30 p.m. ickets: $3.00 at the door or $2.50 in dvbnce at the MSC Box Office (845-1234) I fcYAII films shown in Rudder Theatre Complex, ^■^uestions? 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Most pop music falls into the “too simple” catego ry, explaining why pop songs nev er last long on the charts. “What drives us to enjoy things like art is not the need for simplic ity but a need to discover,” Maggio said. “For simple songs, we listen to them once and that’s all there is so we lose interest.” Much of our enjoyment of mu sic comes from our ability to rec ognize its patterns. Some people enjoy a Rush concert, but others do not understand why anybody goes to one. “Some of it is in the way you perceive,” Maggio said. “Some people have a higher need for or der in their music. Some people have a higher need for chaos.” Even if the patterns fit our background and we are as com plex or as simple as the music, some people just do not like certain types of music. From the anonymous poll re spondent who wrote “skSters and punx rule; everything else sux” to the most enlightened chamber musician, some people simply do not like some types of music. Kevin Keller, a sophomore marketing ma jor, summed up the attitude of an average student. “Sometimes it’s the music, sometimes it’s the lyrics, but some times it’s just the type of people who listen to it,” Keller said. Maggio explained this behavior. “I think if an individual doesn’t like a certain genre of music, they should ask themselves why they don’t like it,” Maggio said. “I think if they do that, somewhere they will find a judgment about that genre.” Regardless of background and musical talent, we all have songs that we hate with a passion. Whether it is ’80s glam, disco, country, or rap, we all have had the bad music experience in our past. Meanwhile, bad music con tinues to go on all around us. But there’s always hope bad music will end. 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