So I've come up with an idea, and I've talked to a couple of meat life friends to make sure its not totally lame and I figured I'd share it with you.
Essentially what I've been thinking is starting a music discussion group. Personally, I feel like when I get online and talk about music I lose at least 50% of the passion I have for whatever it is I'm discussing, and I hate that because right now the internet it pretty much the only place I have for talking to other people about music I love. And I do really love music!
Now obviously it'd be pretty different to a book group in several ways, but the basic idea was this;
The group consists of maybe 8 people maximum.
Once a week/fortnight (not decided yet) they all meet, and bring along 1-3 albums that they love and want to share with other people.
A) They can bring the albums in whatever format they chose. They could burn like a couple of copies of each album to discs, and hand them out. They could upload the album to a file sharing site and hand out the link. They could even just say it's available online *cough* torrents *cough*.
B) The general rule would be to take something you think others might not have heard of. It doesnt necessarily have to be 'that band Davey von Bohlen was in between breaking up The Promise Ring and forming Maritime and they only did like one EP and they recorded it in Japan', but if you turn up with like, Kings Of Leons new album, you're missing the point a little.
Each person talks a little about what sort of music it is, why they like it, how they first heard of it etc. It doesn't need to be a dissertation, but something to let people know why you think they should give it a spin. Now for the tricky part. Obviously you would try and get together a group of people with fairly eclectic tastes, but even then, everyone has preferences. This is why I decided to have each person bring a few different albums. Each person does not HAVE to take home a copy or decide to listen to EVERYTHING that is presented. As long as each person decides to take home like one or two, there should be enough there to set you up for next week. The first week would obviously just be presenting the albums, but then the second week everyone has given said albums a listen. I was thinking maybe you could divide an hour up for each purpose (or half of however long you decide to meet for). The first hour is a chance to go around the group and for people to give their views. Did they like it or not? Why? What songs did or didnt they like in particular, how they thought it could be improved and maybe even say if they've heard anything like it, maybe they could bring that along to swap back with whoever brought the album along originally. Then the next hour you do the presentation again. Simple (I think).
What do you guys think of this idea? Have you ever heard of anything similar? Can you think of any changes that could be made to the structure?
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Topic: The Music Group; Like a Book Group, but with music. (Read 2582 times)