Randomly: Every time the idea of writing about music floats across my consciousness, I think again that it's something I can't wrap my head around. I can listen to people talking about books or read people writing about films and relate that to my own responses and my desire to read a particular book or watch a particular film. I'll buy a book on the strength of a recommendation, but with music, I only ever seem to be responding to hearing the product itself.

If I see/hear someone compare band A with band B or declare band A's music to belong to genre X, then that will attract my attention, but the first thing I do is go and find a sample/download to find out what I think. Maybe it's because I didn't pay any attention to music writing when I was growing up and completely lack the vocabulary?