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oh I forgot: weezer.
i can get into pretty much any pop punk band that isn't MEST.. i also love surf music, dick dale and such, ventures, which are VERY popular... uhhh.. soundtrack work by danny elfman and howard shore and other popular musicians heard by MILLIONS.. i like that.. i also dig gwen stefani's solo stuff...
I dunno. if you dislike something, if you don't give something a chance just because a few people tend to like it, you're a fucking idiot. that last justin timberlake album was great! it had GLITCH BEATS on it and robot vocals! inspiring. it had moments of robotic glitch future-pop. truely nuts. lots of good madonna stuff too. i loved britney spears's "Toxic". i loved the last nine inch nails album. stuff like aphex twin is also popular.. come to think of it, i dig tons of popular things.
...yeah. i think more radical and amazing things come out of the underground, obviously shit like polvo, thinking fellers union local # 282, renaldo and the loaf, etc. aren't on the radio.... but when bands like wolf eyes get offered spots on lollapalooza, boredoms are comissioned to play with 77 drummers in new york, rhys chatham and glenn branca are both on tv playing with huge symphonies.. is there really even an "underground" any more? every noise musician you like is a click away on soulseek or information on wikipedia, so yeah.. pretty much everything you can think of is known by many many people.. there are still tons of little bands around, but yeah.. i don't think it's stretching it too much to say that it's impossible in this age to be a music snob.
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