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| From | Jocelyn Geboy <smussyolay@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Blender list of 50 worst groups |
| Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2003 22:08:33 -0700 (PDT) |
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~~~~~~is this online somewhere?
insane clown posse scares the shit out of me based on
their name/image alone.
jocelyn
--- David Pearlman <dap@arlingtonmass.com> wrote:
> Blender just published its list of the 50 worst
> groups of all time.
> As expected, no criteria are actually listed for who
> got on the list.
> I think the list is intended just to amuse/annoy.
> And surely it does.
> Some choices are inspired, others idiotic. I am too
> lazy to reproduce
> the entire list here, so I'll just select a few of
> the more idiotic
> choices:
>
> 49) Toad the Wet Sprocket.
> Yeah, they were derivative. But the songs are
> pretty good, especially
> on the 3rd and subsequent albums.
>
> 43) Mike & the Mechanics
> More disappointing than anything else. Mike
> Rutherford once made a pretty
> good album in the tradition of earlier Genesis:
> Smallcreep's Day. The M&tM
> material, on the other hand, is clearly aimed at
> the mainstream and most
> leaves little lasting impression. But worst
> band? Naw. And I think
> "The Living Years" IS a good song.
>
> 33) Japan
> Huh? Yeah, their first two albums were pretty
> lousy, but they got better REAL
> fast after that. In some ways responsible for
> much of the new romantic movement,
> a movement that probably incites more disdain
> than most. But heck, if you're
> gonna piss on that movement at least choose a
> less talented purveyor (did I hear
> Duran Duran or Spandex [sic] Ballet?) Perhaps
> the most surprising inclusion on the
> list, since critics have generally been very
> kind to their mid period material.
>
> 21) The Alan Parsons Project
> Critics hate them because of the basic bloodless
> progressive nerdiness. But at times
> it was pretty inspired bloodless progressive
> nerdiness. Tales of Mystery and Imagination
> (especially) and I Robot were pretty good
> progressive pop albums, and the next 3-4 albums
> also had their moments.
>
> 19) Dan Fogelberg
> He may we a musical wimp, but his first four
> albums (through Netherlands) were pretty
> solid singer-songwriter stuff, Phoenix was
> better than that and The Innocent Age
> is something of a forgotten classic of the
> genre. Then he seemed to lose it.
>
> 6) Kansas
> Another one critics love to hate. But they were
> pretty good through Point of Know Return
> (their fourth album), and they showed a lot more
> humanity and attention to songcraft
> than other progressive groups that deservedly
> gave the genre a bad name.
>
>
> The number 1 worst group ever, according to the
> article, is Insane Clown Posse. Well, I can
> hardly argue with that :-)
>
> dap
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