Hey Steve,
Well, I’m not too dissimilar to you in some regards. For instance I’ve tried many times to get into reggae and modern blues but just cannot do it. Scratch Perry and the Mad Professor, fine; Dan Auerbach and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, fine - but almost everything else leaves me cold. I think perhaps there are just some genres that for whatever reason don’t connect to either our intellect nor our emotions.
I know Bob Marley and SRV are legends for good reason, but I’ve never owned a single track of theirs, and unless something radical happens, perhaps never will. I certainly understand how that could be the case for the works of Cage, Xenakis, Messiaen, Ligeti, Varèse, et al. Again, to acknowledge someone’s contribution to music is not necessarily the same as endorsing it on a personal level.
That's not to say I rule out one day finding myself in a record shop and being overwhelmed with the desire to own Texas Flood or Exodus. I mean, stranger things have happened.
