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| From | kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: White Stripes backlash |
| Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:19:58 -0700 (PDT) |
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--- josh chasin <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> I've never heard the White Stripes. I just never
> felt motivated to do so.
>
> I just felt like saying so.
and I feel like agreeing with you, josh...i also never
really heard the Hives, The Vines, or any Green Day
that wasn't on the radio...also, no Fountains of
Wayne, much to Jocelyn's chagrin. I'm sure they are
all great, or not, and someday i might give em a
whirl, but i mostly follow my nose to music i might
like, by following producers (like Brad Jones) or
families (like elephant 6) or band offshoots (like the
jellyfish decendents) and somehow these folks just
never showed up on the most wanted list at the same
time they showed up used in my local rekkid store. so
it goes. my family plays a game in which we name all
the classic books we haven't read - being all readers
and mostly english majors, it's surprising how many we
missed. i feel that the same thing happens musically,
only sometimes i feel i have already made an opinion
about music based on fans/hype/media irritation, and
that doesn't happen to me with books so much - i mean,
I don't have any opinion about Moby Dick (which I
haven't read,) so why should I have an opinon about
"Dookie," (which I haven't heard?) Weird.
just an IPO aside: i'll weigh in on shoes to say i
love love a lot of their songwriting and thought their
vocals were truly troubling on saturday, but i was
glad to see em up there swinging anyway - however,
the two friends who had never heard of them asked me
afterwards what the hell i was so happy about. they
both thought it sucked pretty badly. On the other
hand, they were both overjoyed by the shazam, as any
right thinking person would have been....as i wrote em
to say, i found them once again to be the
asskickingest, rocknrollingest, sternum-shakingest,
bloodpumpingest standupandshout goddamn and hell yeah
motherfuckers this town has seen since robin zander
started wearing parachute pants. they stop my heart
and make me squeal, and i don't think it gets any more
rock n roll than that. god bless em.
fanatically,
--kelly
np: brendan benson 'lapalco', and thank you john
hastie for this. i might have to reverse my low
opinion about BB formed by a bad schuba's show a while
back , but i reserve the right to hate his live shows
if it's anything like the last time i saw him.
=====
oderint dum mentuant
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