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| From | "Mark Tate" <zumpp99@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: New Strokes album - it's a..... |
| Date | Fri, 03 Oct 2003 11:29:06 -0400 |
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The joke is that Moby Grape's first album was great, but their follow up Wow
was horrible. That's my interpretation.
Mark
>From: "bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: New Strokes album - it's a.....
>Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 07:14:58 -0700
>
> > Bruce Brodeen on the new Strokes:
> > Moby Grape for Double Naught Generation.
>
>Bruce so you don't like the Strokes, and they're the new
>"Moby Grape for the '00 Generation"...I like Moby Grape,
>esp. the first album, so I'm not sure what you mean, and
>I didn't get the joke, I guess.. Is this a reference to the
>Strokes' bad management, their misguided A&R guy,
>and/or their "sad, child-like, completely panicked
>mimicking of the first album"? ...do the Strokes' simply
>suffer (in your opinion) from the "sophomore slump" like
>so many before them, or is there some kind of special
>significance in saying they're like Moby Grape...? You're
>not saying that the only good album by the Moby Grape
>is their first one, are you? Certainly the Strokes and Moby
>Grape don't sound alike...can you expand on this a bit?
>
>Bryan
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