When I think how my taste in music has come to include more acoustic music each year beyond the amount of hardcore I inherit from my adolescence, I usually come to the conclusion that it is a basic calming of my temperament that is being expressed in my taste. At their best, hardcore bands sound like the crowds storming the Bastille, while acoustic music, at its best, sounds like the death of Socrates, as described in Crito — a quiet, plaintive conversation between friends.
My Changing Tastes in Music
By John Myles White on 11.7.2007
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