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Hi there, it's Alan Cross, and for the next few weeks of the ongoing history of new music podcast,

we're going back to revisit a series we did a little while ago called 100 Weird Things About New Rock.

This is a 10-part series, and it explored a lot of topics with each

episode dealing with a particular brand of weirdness, sex, the law, drugs, strange recordings,

excess road stories, bad behavior, and more. There's a lot that goes into the music that we

don't always hear about, despite what you may hear on the

internet. So it's kind of like my job to feeling it in. You ready for some weirdness? Okay,

but don't say I didn't warn you. If you're listening to this show, you are a music fan. Any arguments

with that statement? I didn't think so. Fan is short for fanatic, a person who is extremely passionate and enthusiastic about something.

It could be sports, it could be movies, could be music.

And fans tend to be reasonably uncritical about the objects of their affection.

But all fanaticism, and we're using the proper

dictionary terms here, is not the same. We can go from being a casual fan of something to being a

devotee. But then after that, fan may give away to the negative connotations of fanatic,

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