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| From | Christopher <plattc@optonline.net> |
| Subject | Re: Spoon / Writing a hit record |
| Date | Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:25:16 -0500 |
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I personally never begrudged Owsley a hit, and I don't think anyone else did
either. I said that several tracks were lackluster and sounded like the
Wallflowers. If you want to assume that to mean Owsley "dumbed it down" to
make it radio friendly, I suppose that's your assumption to make, but my
point was that I wasn't grabbed by the songs in question. Most of the album
I like a lot.
And FoW deserves as many hits as they can get, IMHO, whether Chris
Collingwood can live with himself and the aftereffects or not.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Curry" <mike@currym.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:05 PM
Subject: Spoon / Writing a hit record
> On a separate subject which has cropped up a few times, particularly in
relation to Owsley's new one and FoW, what the hell is wrong with writing a
hit? Does the audities list just exist so we can keep our fave artistes a
secret? Do we only wish them well so long as they keep writing great records
for us, which no one else will dig? So what if once in a body of work that
may stretch over 20, 30, or a 100 songs, one is a crack at the big time -
the once in a lifetime shot for paying the bills for the rest of your life?
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