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| From | Eb <ElBroome@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Re: Eb's Flow + |
| Date | Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:34:06 -0800 |
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Wow. Some remarkably petty counterpoint, today. The train seems to be
running low on soul coal.
>Michael Bennett:
> >but I've heard albums by Benson, GBW and Splitsville. Nuh-uh.
>
>You've convinced me -- that's very compelling reasoning. (Of course,
>Greenberry Woods were major label and Brendan Benson certainly did
>well in critical circles outside 'IPO pop' thing you go on about).
How telling that I posted endorsements of about 60 albums, and you
yanked out the one negative line to harp on. Nuff said. And your
parenthetical point only *supports* my speculations about the lack of
worthwhile bands stuck on the IPO level.
>Now, here's an idea -- rather than presume that people on this list
>aren't with it
>enough to understand a lot of the things that you like (or dislike),
>post about
>them and explain why something floats your boat or it doesn't.
Uh-huh. See below.
>Give props to Rufus Wainwright for his "My Funny Valentine" on
>Lennon last night?
Simply forgot to watch. Ah well...I'm not particularly fond of
Wainwright's lounge-lizard side, anyway. Your "Lennon" slip is
hilarious, of course.
>(Speaking of -- did you find Rufus's second to be somewhat of a
>disappointment? I didn't hear enough strong songs...).
Well, you saw my relative rankings of the first and second
albums...sure, it was a big disappointment. I love four or five
tracks (basically, the same ones which he performs the most), but the
rest is kinda dull. His guitar-based songs have a much weaker
slugging percentage, and the mix-and-match producers leave the album
very disjointed. And I wish he would figure out that "One Man Guy"
just isn't that powerful a song -- he treats it like it's friggin' "I
Shall Be Released" or something.
Also disturbs me that I have some rare songs saved on MP3 which I
like better than most of the Poses tracks. Particularly "Little
Sister" -- I'll be *very* exasperated if RW never records a proper
version of that. That song is <superlative>sheer genius</superlative>.
Someone (Pat?):
>From my stance, it's easy to see that our tastes differ, plain and simple.
>And, while you may hinge on the upscale/lofty point that you don't
>offer *superlatives* as descriptions of certain discs, you
>definitely don't hold back at aiming the cannon of vitriol at
>certain posters. Heck, you even stoop to critiquing the way they
>peruse the bins.
Well, someone else already pointed out how ridiculous it is to make
an issue of this "Amoeba chance-meeting" thing. No need for me to be
redundant.
>The difference I see, is that I don't feel a need to pigeon-hole
>your releases into a classification, nor do I feel a need to chide
>you incessantly because you like quite a bit of music that is a
>complete and utter bore to me.
Just this once, I guess. ;)
>And hey, that brings to mind a question. Do you play an instrument?
>Do you have musical dreams/aspirations beyond tearing down other
>people's music/dreams with flacid verbal offerings and "look at who
>*I* like, suckas" lists?
I play piano pretty well, and can figure out most pop/rock songs by
ear so quickly that it's almost like a parlor trick. I used to play
clarinet, but I've kinda let that lapse (my axe needs a total
overhaul to be playable). I can pick basic chords on a guitar, but
certainly don't consider myself anywhere near competent. And I bet
someone can contrive a feeble way to slash at this paragraph, too.
"Well if yur so smaaaart, why donchu start a band yurselllf?"
Meanwhile, you really *blew it* by attacking the act of posting a
"Look at who I like" list. As someone else stated, "I can't win for
trying." I expected that folks would be eager to snort at certain
Not-of-the-Body albums on my list, but I never imagined that someone
would gripe about the "egotism" of posting recommendations at all.
You just blasted a big hole in the "good guys" side, and sent a truck
of fresh armaments to the Yangers in the "Why bother?" camp.
>Like what they do or not, I don't make it a point to criticize the bands/folks
>here in bands I may not like simply because *I* can do no better.
Ahh, straight from the Gospel of the 7-to-10er. Come on...this
reasoning is off-the-charts trite.
>Bill Silvers:
>What do those egalitarian,
>broad-minded CoF folks think of them? Eb? Anybody?<g>
If you really care, just skim the lists on the CoF page and see if
there are any Figgs votes. One thing which *definitely* makes the CoF
poll more valuable is that it publishes all the individual lists. ;)
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