Chart study #3: Mercury

Anonymous · 2014-10-29T09:50:07-04:00

For my next chart study, I’ll be doing our very own Mercury: The 100 Greatest Music Albums by Mercury To start, I want to give a quick run-down of Mercury and my initial impressions of his taste in music. I would have done this for dbz and repo if I’d thought of it, but so it goes. Anyway, one of the things that really strikes me about Mercury on the forums is his passion. He seems to feel everything very strongly, whether it’s positive or negative, and I think that’s definitely reflected in his taste in music -- the music he loves is often intensely personal and emotionally vulnerable. The simplistic view of his tastes would be in the singer/songwriter tradition, particularly Bob Dylan and his many descendants, but I know Mercury also has a passion for R&B, hip hop, and blues, just to name a few. He seems to connect most frequently with American music (73% of his chart) and I definitely sense a love for Americana, even in some of the non-American artists featured on his chart. So my first questions, Mercury, are about where you came from. Did you grow up in a city or in the country (or somewhere in between)? Does your family have deep roots in the US? In short, is there anything in your background that helps you to connect with artists like Bob Dylan, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, and Robert Johnson or did the music come first?

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sp4cetiger

Thanks, Mercury! I may stop back in with more questions, but that's it for me for now. Definitely a pleasure.

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St. Louis

Thank you, sp4cetiger. Same here - it was a pleasure through and through. I hope I kept it relatively interesting and worth your while and everyone else's.
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