http://silver-starlight.net/blog/2006/02/15/musical-discoveries/ the ravings of the questioning Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:00:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://silver-starlight.net/blog/2006/02/15/musical-discoveries/#comment-2842 Breaking Into The Mainstream? at Curious Notions Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:56:37 +0000 http://silver-starlight.net/blog/2006/02/15/musical-discoveries/#comment-2842 [...] While up in Ithaca, I suffered a real shock. As my mother and I were taking shelter from the heat wave in the local Chili’s, I found myself singing along to the song playing over the speaker system. This in itself is not all that odd. The shock was when I realized that I was hearing “7 days, 7 weeks” by the Belgian rock-group dEUS. I wrote previously about their most recent album, Pocket Revolution and have no doubts that it would be popular here in the States if it got some play, but, frankly, I was used to never hearing my favorite songs playing except when instigated by me. This is the first time I’ve heard any of my favorite foreign groups play on the radio. Are the winds a’changing? [...] [...] While up in Ithaca, I suffered a real shock. As my mother and I were taking shelter from the heat wave in the local Chili’s, I found myself singing along to the song playing over the speaker system. This in itself is not all that odd. The shock was when I realized that I was hearing “7 days, 7 weeks” by the Belgian rock-group dEUS. I wrote previously about their most recent album, Pocket Revolution and have no doubts that it would be popular here in the States if it got some play, but, frankly, I was used to never hearing my favorite songs playing except when instigated by me. This is the first time I’ve heard any of my favorite foreign groups play on the radio. Are the winds a’changing? [...]

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