It took me a long time time to figure it out -- but ultimately it doesn't
matter how original something is. It's more whether it makes you feel good
to hear it. I love Planet Soul, and I wouldn't exactly call them
groundbreaking. But that doesn't mean that their music is bad or it doesn't
make me feel good -- it doesn't really mean anything really. I only learned
this when I made it a habit of liking X mix CD, and not really trying to
figure out who made X track, or even learning what the name of it is -- just
that it's on X disc. So nowadays 95% of my favorite songs I don't really
know the titles of. Every few discs something will hit me and I'll go out
of my way to find out what it is (like "Set U Free"). I've always hated
that shit about rock music, because it tends to romanticise it. I guess
that's why I like the underground stuff so much, because fuck knows who made
it and I'd rather keep it that way.
c'ya
db