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| From | "Lee Elliott" <pop@anotherplanet.ca> |
| Subject | Re: Rap (Re: Blur) |
| Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:31:42 -0600 |
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> > And he's the guy who had all the
> > Beatles and Stones albums when I was little - ---
> I think a lot of people forget just how much the Beatles and the Stones
were
> marketed. That your brother had their albums is about as surprising as how
the
> well-marketed acts these days are the ones that sell a lot of units. No
matter
> how lame you might think an Avril is, she's got the money behind her and
that's
> a big part of what counts these days.
Maybe not surprising, just nice to have those albums available in the 80's
when
you are 12 years old.
And thank god the Beatles and Stones were marketed like they were, afforded
them
the ungodly amounts of money required to live in recording studios all those
years. And just to go on even longer - that reminds me of a review I read
lately about Weezer - this might be somewhat unrelated but I thought it a
very interesting statement. It's from the review of 'Maladroit' on
AllMusic.
"It's so good, it's hard not to think that it offers definitive proof that
even in 2002, it's best for a band to keep going once they've hit a peak, to
turn out a bunch of records that find them at the top of their game instead
of waiting three or four years to craft a follow-up. After all, that's what
builds not only a body of work, but a legacy." - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Lee
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