Well, I can answer this concerning the questions I write...I hope I am not repeating comments by anyone else which I can't see due to the Yahoo bug. I write mostly from books....guess what, those bands aren't in most of the books I read. I am sometimes loathe to write about some of the lesser-known acts which I have multiple albums of. Does anyone besides me want to see questions on Over the Rhine, Victoria Williams, and God Street Wine, all of which are acts that I have multiple albums of who I don't recall ever coming up in trash. They don't come up because no one writes about them....let me find a good reference on the library shelves and I'll consider it. Consider this thought, though. You are probably beating to movie/TV questions people who take in that medium at the same rate you listen to music. Why? Because you know the popular stuff and they may veer to "cult favorites," critically acclaimed but poorly received at the box-office films, and the like. The same problem comes up in genre lit. Can I ask about the SF/F authors that only hardcore fans of those genres would ever read even if they are critially acclaimed and artistically important? I get scoffed at for doing that. Every single category in all forms of quizbowl, trash, academic, whatever, have problems concerning over- and underrepresented subcategories. I don't know what the solution is. I get criticized for being too hard when I start cramming several underrepresented categories in the same packet. Then again, there can be the idea that trash ought to be as shameful knowledge as possible, devoid of artistic merit as can possibly be. So of course, porn is the epitome of trash. :) Oh, BTW, some people also gripe about oldies not being sufficiently represented. Go write a no-platinum album theme round, for TRASHionals. Heck, make it a no-gold record theme round. That ought to be fun. Anthony, who can only have so many axes to grind at once.
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