Obscure Bands

Everyone should have a favorite band that never hit it big. For me it’s Gentle Giant. You might have to find a different band to like, but it is nice to show a little musical depth in a pop cultural world.

You will still run into someone that only listens to classical music that will be woefully unimpressed with this. So keep at least one very obscure classical music CD in your collection and a card in your wallet with its liner notes to read to them. Ask them if they have any favorite string octets. If they say yes or no say, “Oh” dismissively, “you looked like a string octet liker to me – maybe you would rather talk about football?”