OFF: Age and taste

M Holmes fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK
Wed Sep 10 06:54:27 EDT 1997


Daniel Wikdahl writes:

> This came to my mind when I read the "guitar-hero" mails.

> I once read an article that quoted a scientific report that said that
> "the music you listen to when you're 24 is the same [kind of] music
> that you'll be listening to in the rest of your life".

What goes around comes around. Psychedelic guru Dr. Timothy Leary (now
an ex person with ashes orbiting Earth) stated in the 60's that the
music you were listening to around the time of your first orgasm would
be the type of music you listened to for the rest of your life. This was
related to theories of "imprinting".

Of course Dr Leary did talk bollocks much of the time so there's no need
to pay special heed to this. Then again, I've always had a fondness for
Chicory Tip.

The latest theory sounds like a variant on the theme.

>                 -Daniel

FoFP



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