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Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson

The best thing that I've read on music apart from Cage's writings. Breaks down what makes people love Celine Dion but also dives deep into regional, class, and social drivers of taste on both sides. The writer (approaching the subject as a Celine Dion despiser) comes to a lot of same conclusions about taste that many members here have reached (thinking Bat, OH, rostasi, Goof, Ant, and myself) and also makes fun of us for patting ourselves on the back about it. Insightful with a lot of informative passages and wry jokes, definitely worth your time if you like music enough to make an account here. This one has a reputation for a reason.

(it's not that Carl Wilson just fyi)

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