{"id":2844,"date":"2005-05-14T13:21:54","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T17:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/05\/14\/2844.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:50:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:50:02","slug":"top-five-artists-to-whom-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/05\/14\/top-five-artists-to-whom-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Artists To Whom More People Should Listen To"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Top Five Artists You Think More People Should Listen To\n<p>Before I begin: I used to collar people and demand that they listen to some particular track. It wasn&#8217;t generally successful. I did manage to &#8216;give&#8217; a musician to a particular friend once or twice, but on the whole, people weren&#8217;t impressed by what I was spinning, and honestly I can&#8217;t imagine that I would have enjoyed the tracks while under the gun like that. Since that time, I&#8217;ve grown to understand that people are different, one to another, and that different people like different things, and that&#8217;s what makes the world interesting and fun. I have no way of knowing whether people will like a particular band, and I certainly don&#8217;t want people to have to listen to stuff they don&#8217;t like. That&#8217;s what radio&#8217;s for.\n<p>So, what criteria are left for me? First of all, there are artists who I think might not continue recording unless more people start listening to them. Then, I suppose, there are the artists whose work I would like to have in the referrosphere, just so my references to them would actually communicate something other than my own pretentiousness. That said, here are my Top Five.\n<ul><li>The Klezmatics: I happen to like the lineup of this group, and would like to see the members rewarded for their stuff together, rather than for their other projects.<\/li>\n<li>Jim&#8217;s Big Ego: I doubt he&#8217;d actually give up, and in these internetty days I don&#8217;t actually have to go to the CD release party to get any new stuff he puts out, but it would be nice to see him make a little money doing what he does.<\/li>\n<li>Gilbert &amp; Sullivan: Actually, now that my filking days are done, I would be happy if people just committed the libretti to memory. Being witty isn&#8217;t much fun if nobody knows I&#8217;m being witty.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.malletman.com\/\">Ben Thomas<\/a>: By &#8216;more people&#8217; here, I actually mean Your Humble Blogger. I special-ordered my old college buddy&#8217;s first album at Tower Records, and five years later they closed the store. Without coming up with the disc. I&#8217;ve been too lazy to get the thing since. He&#8217;s the only person I know in the music business, and I would like to see him become rich and famous, so he could lend me money. Hey, wait, he owes <I>me<\/I> money!<\/li>\n<li>Woody Guthrie: It probably wouldn&#8217;t work, but it&#8217;s possible that if more people listened to Woody Guthrie, the current administration and its cronies would be tossed out on their collective ear, come the election. And, I suppose, it would annoy the right to listen, so there&#8217;s that petty benefit as well.<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>Sadly, I don&#8217;t think that any family members or close friends are in a band, so there&#8217;s no cash incentive in it for me. This is a tragic oversight. \n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Five Artists You Think More People Should Listen To Before I begin: I used to collar people and demand that they listen to some particular track. It wasn\u2019t generally successful. 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