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Go Bowling (ska) at
The Dixie Theatre
Ruthie Foster (blues) at
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L • Blue Valentine (blues)
at Fitzwilly’s
• Michael McAllister
I (acoustic guitar) at
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Vleredith Miller (rock) with
Hadden Sayers (rock) at
Dixie Theatre
Throwaway People (blues)
vith Karmah Jet (rock) at
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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
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terms ‘good’ and ‘bad’,” Maggio
said. “You have to look at factors of
complexity in the music. If the mu
sic is sufficiently complex and suit
ed to that person’s background,
then that person will enjoy it.”
Music that is not complex
enough tends to draw a great deal
of affirmative response in people,
but just as quickly as it came, the
affirmative response will fall off
with repeated listening and inter
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Likewise, music that is too
complex will not draw much in
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times it is heard. 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
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will end. Until then, “who
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