Bands/musicians you know you "should" like but you don't

[kentauros]

46. If you like rap and can appreciate the poetry of it, that's fine.

Just don't make me hear it pretty much everywhere (that includes modern movies, especially.) I like and will voluntarily listen to the old stuff, like from Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys. Yet, I don't like them enough to buy their music.

The only type of music from that genre that does compel me to purchase their art would be from the turntable-artists such as Q-bert and Kid Koala. I've been listening to the whole evolution of electronic music ever since Kraftwerk's Autobahn. None of today's music would be what it is without the existence of Kraftwerk. They influenced almost everyone.

If you're not familiar with it, I highly recommend this site: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

Basically, my music tastes have been sculpted by public radio. Without it, I never would have heard much more then the few electronic bands I picked up at stores. I wouldn't have had my eyes opened to the likes of Philip Glass and Steve Reich, or negativland and Zoviet France, to Throbbing Gristle and Einsturzende Neubauten, to The Shoulders and Alpha Team, to Oingo Boingo and Bebop Deluxe, to PDQ Bach, to radio theater, and on and on. Commercial radio won't touch anything that isn't a guaranteed top sell, and all too often that means it's been "manufactured" to sell to an uneducated public.

Now, if the aging boomers would just stop controlling the airwaves everywhere (and get enlightened by such online radio stations as WFMU and somafm) I'd be far happier!