expanding music

Just recently I have started to expand my musical boundaries.  As much as I love the music I have, I wanted to look elsewhere.  So I have been looking at music that in the past, I would have never considered.  Some of the albums that I have purchased are pretty good, some not so much.  

The first one that I bought was Moby's Play and Play: B Sides.  The first real electronic music I have ever listened to.  The end result of it is that I cannot listen to the entire album in one sitting, because it is twenty some tracks.  Eventually they all run together.  I also bought the Dewayn Brothers Farmer.  A local bluegrass band.  I saw them play at a bar here in Wichita and they were fantastic.  I have started to move away from country music, it has just all started to sound similar, but this was something different.  

I have started to dabble a bit into rap music, picking up some well known albums by the Beastie Boys, Outkast, and The Fugees.  The Beastie Boys and Fugees albums are great.  Outkast, not so much.  The album is more miss than hit.  There are a few tracks on the album which are fantastic, but there are more that I just can't stand.  

Two guys that I work with made up this image their heads of me going home after work and listening to a jazz record and sipping on some brandy.  A funny thought, but now....it can kind of come true.  Substitute scotch for the brandy, but I bought John Coltrane and Miles Davis albums.  The albums are only four tracks a piece, but some of the tracks go on for ten or twelve minutes long.  These albums are great works of art, but I definitely need to be in the right kind of mood to listen to them.