What would it be like to exclusively listen to the coaches for a possession?
Jonathan Pierce: "We only listen to the bands and songs that changed our lives: the Smiths, Orange Juice, My Bloody Valentine, the Wake…" Jacob Graham: "I exclusively listen to the Field Mice".
Their indulgence in a nostalgia for an analogue existence they never actually lived is grating: from watching VHS tapes, to exclusively listening to vinyl, to tapping away on a typewriter, Jamie, Darby (Amanda Seyfried) and their friend Tipper (she of the ironic shirts: "Some college I never went to"; "Some crappy band") – are contrived and conceited.
In my case, they'll think I'm an eastern bloc drag queen since I pretty much exclusively listen to progressive house.
Sure, people with terrible facial hair who exclusively listen chillwave still turned on this thing hard.
Do all black people find watermelons extremely tasty, exclusively listen to rap music, enjoy anal sex and have big penises?
I was never a victim of prejudice, but I was constantly overcompensating for my "non-Americanness" by exclusively listening to western pop music and studying English with a greater fervor than your average ten-year-old.
Robert Smith of The Cure discovered Loveless after a period of almost exclusively listening to "disco, or Irish bands like the Dubliners" as a means of avoiding his contemporaries, and said, "[My Bloody Valentine] was the first band I heard who quite clearly pissed all over us, and their album Loveless is certainly one of my all-time three favourite records.
The village had dances for everything back then, but those he was seeking were exclusively for adults, the "night dances" he could only listen to as a child.
The latter, which focuses exclusively on listening strategies, was designed to serve as a self-assessment instrument, and to assess the extent to which language learners are aware of their own processes of L2 listening comprehension (Vandergrift, et al., 2006).
