Well jim is just one of my many musical loves, and I'm not sure I hold him up as a deity above any others I love, which I have suspected every now and then is sliggtly different to some of the people here.
I wouldn't batter an eyelid at liking Elvis Costello and Billy Joel. That's really quite tame a dichotomy if you ask me. In fact, I see no dichotomy at all.
People give me shit for listening to Ravi Shankar, cause I only got to him thru George Harrison. And whilst that's true, I like where I got, so I stayed there, you know?
(On an only semi-related note: does anyone else find the Fagan guy from Steely Dan sooooo much like Billy Joel?)
> My friends often accuse me of having no taste in music
> becasue I like all sorts of singers and music. I was
> wondering if anyone else has ever said to you something
> like:
>
> "You can't like (so and so) if you like (insert name)"
>
> For instance a friend of mine was a huge Elvis Costello
> fan. I am a huge fan too. I then told this friend that I
> was a Billy Joel fan. He said that he couldn't understand
> how I could be both.
>
> OK. here's the question... Can you be a Jim Steinman fan
> and not be a........ fan?
>
> Or, is music just music. We can like what we like. But
> this attitude is no fun!!!
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