Letter from my dad My sister and I recently gave my dad some new music to check out, since he's looking for something beyond Scott Joplin, REM, and yodeling (Western-style only, please). I got the following reply:

I can finally report on the CD’s you guys gave me. The CD’s I don’t care for are P.J. Harvey, The New Pornographers, Elvis Costello and the CD marked “XTC Mix”. The ones I like are Arcade Fire, Belle & Sebastian, and the one marked “Mix 2”. The music I really liked on the last one was by: Death Cab for Cutie, Badly Drawn Boy, The Postal Service, and Dar Williams [note that these all came from Darling Angel, NOT me]. If you have entire CD’s by any of those, I’d like to hear them. I’d also be interested in hearing more from Tyler Hilton, Ben Fold Five, Vanilla Sky and Bare Naked Ladies [more Darling Angel]. By the way, I’m still working on that box of tapes you left [in the house many many years ago]. You know I love the Kimball Collins United DJ’s of America.

He loses points for Ben Folds, but gets quite a few back for Kimball Collins. 

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