What’s getting lost here is that Floyd started a thread to share music and invite people to listen and learn from it. A bunch of us did exactly that and got value from it.

Disagreeing with a genre or a list is totally fine. Threads get derailed when a quick jab pulls the focus off the songs and turns it into an argument about intent and tone. None of us really knows what Floyd meant or intended except Floyd himself. We can talk about how something landed, but not rewrite what someone else says their intent was.

As far as my part in it, I want to apologize to Mike. I think I made it come across like he is the reason I don’t participate here much anymore, and that isn’t fair. I actually used to love coming here to catch things I would have missed if people like Floyd weren’t making suggestions like this. To me, it’s a shortcut, with commentary, to what’s going on. I really value that. I actually very much value those conversations because of everyone here.

But over time it started to feel like someone always had to jump in with something that was only loosely about the topic and not really in the spirit of it. It would turn into what they think, then their past, and finally “do you know how great I am?! Let me tell you!” moment, and it just got old for me. That part is on me for letting that history bleed into this thread.

When I popped in and saw Floyd’s list, I was honestly excited, and but then it quickly felt like the same pattern again. Mike, that’s not on you at all. That’s on me. I brought too much baggage into this and it wasn’t fair to you or the thread. I was going to send you a PM on this, but since I said what I said publicly, I wanted to apologize publicly too. And for what it’s worth, I actually smirked when you made your first joke. I really don’t like my part in pulling this thread sideways, even for a minute.

Anyway, this was meant to be about what’s out there right now and what people are hearing in it. I’d rather see it get back to talking about the tracks, the production, and what people are picking up from them, because that’s what made Floyd’s post worth the time in the first place. Thanks for posting it Floyd!

Chad (Hope that makes it easier)

TEMPO TANTRUM: What a lead singer has when they can't stay in time.