re: Ohio on the Charts

[Benjamin Torbert <bct1 at duke_edu>]

To me, the problem isn't losing the best-kept-secret aura of OtR.  I'm not
really an Indy Rock guy, so I don't derive specific pleasure from knowing
about something others don't.

The bigger [potential] problem to me is people liking what I like but for
[what I perceive as] the wrong reasons.  I can't tell you how many
conversations I've had with people who like REM, and then proceed to tell
me that their favorite songs are like "Man on the Moon" and "Superman" and
"Everybody Hurts" which I suppose was a great song but got overplayed.
Ugh.

I like Ohio a lot, but there's an awful lot of emulation of other
people's sounds, like the Beatles (BPD), Sarah McLachlan (this particular
arrangement of She), Brandy or something (Lifelong Fling), Sheryl Crow
(Show Me), maybe the Platters (Fool).  I'm fearing the day someone who
hears "Show Me" on the writes a review where they say they like OtR
because Karin sounds like Sheryl Crow---which she never does, except in
that song.

I guess the good news is that even if you like something as mainstream as
REM, your esoteric side can be stroked by the fact that you like all these
songs that a lot of thier fans never listen to.  So if the hordes descned
upon Give me Strength and Show Me, I'll still have Happy to be So and I
Let it Go.  Nyah nyah.

BenT
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