This week I’ll feature songs by some of the artists I was steered toward by my genome project research.
If the genome theory is solid, all of these artists should appeal to me on an instinctive level. Whether they’ll have the added mystery ingredient that leads me to fully embrace them remains to be seen.
I’m surprised to see that I’ve never featured a Green Day song through 1,555 Songs of the Day.
Not that I’m a big Green Day fan. I’m decidedly not. In fact, I dislike most of their music.
But I love American Idiot, their 2004 rock opera (which has since become a Broadway musical). And you’d think during more than four years of daily songs I’d have gotten around to it.
My apologies to all the “niggaz and bitches” in my readership who might be offended by today’s Song of the Day. The Random iTunes Fairy can be politically incorrect.
This song is a nice example of why I don’t listen to a lot of rap. While I really enjoy the 90s G-funk sound that Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre made popular, I tire quickly of songs about drug use, gangs and women as sex objects.
So I know what I like, and I hope the past couple of months have revealed some patterns that suggest why I like what I like.
That raises two more questions: 1) Why don’t I like other artists who are similar to the artists I like?; and 2) Who else might I like if give them a chance?
I spent awhile cross-referencing music websites, Googling different genres, following genealogical patterns on AllMusic.com, trying to come up with a list of artists who fall into the same genome combinations I’ve described this week.
I’ve spent the first few days of the week looking at the numbers. Now I want to look at the names.
My musical genome groupings have made for some interesting bedfellows. Take ‘Melancholy Pop,’ where Michael Penn, Fountains of Wayne, The Shins and The Smiths all make their home. I don’t know if those four artists would normally be grouped together, but they make for a plausible pod.
