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From | "Jake Beamer, OverlookedCreations.com" <overlookedcreations1@hotmail.com> |
Subject | Re: random first hour Grammy musings - like you care |
Date | Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:57:04 -0500 |
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Hah. Interstate Managers as a whole I don't enjoy but "Bright Future in
Sales" I find AMAZING. As well as Mexican Wine and a bunch of others. I just
feel like mid-album things start to lag, sound all the same, etc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jocelyn Geboy" <smussyolay@yahoo.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: random first hour Grammy musings - like you care
> ~~~i'm glad FOW are hitting it big. it was the way
> over the top tits and ass POV of the video i didn't
> like. as if they *couldn't* hit it big unless they
> pandered that way. that's what i didn't appreciate.
>
> i heard mexican wine on the radio yesterday (yay!),
> and a friend of mine just referenced 'hey julie' (he
> said..the song about the mean man getting him down??
> it took me a second, i didn't realize that was a
> single here in chicago) in re: FOW. i just don't
> think it's their best song. it's the semisonic/del
> amitri dilemma.
>
> the gin blossoms with 'hey jealousy' and matthew
> sweet's 'girlfriend' are a couple of times where
> people's instant connections with a band/artist are
> actually ones i'm GLAD they have....but then again,
> who the hell am i???
>
> jocelyn
>
> --- Michael Bennett <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Have you spent any time on the Bomp list? Maybe you
> > missed the vitriol that
> > some garage fans directed at bands like The Hives,
> > based on their success.
> > As for your Fountains Of Wayne point -- what
> > insulated world do you live
> > in??? Any band that rises to success gets a certain
> > amount of shit from
> > their fans. Success breeds that sort of thing.
> >
> > However, I'm glad that you qualified your comments
> > re: power pop fans. Yes,
> > there are some fans of power pop who only want
> > things to be carbon copies.
> > Looking pretty much the same, though a bit blurry --
> > fresh off the
> > mimeograph. Such close minded stances are annoying,
> > laughable whatever. I
> > agree. That only applies to a portion of the
> > audience. And this is true of
> > any revivalist genre -- some people just want things
> > to be the way they
> > were.
> >
> > Mike Bennett
> >
> >
> >
> > Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com>
> > >Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
> > >To: audities@smoe.org, audities@smoe.org
> > >Subject: Re: random first hour Grammy musings -
> > like you care
> > >Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:02:08 -0500
> > >
> > >At 06:43 PM 2/9/2004 -0600, Michael Bennett wrote:
> > > >2. I would agree with Stewart, to a degree, that
> > power pop has generally
> > > >pretty ossified. But it isn't like power pop is
> > the sole genre with that
> > > >attribute. Garage rock anyone? Ska? I could go
> > on...
> > >
> > >I don't hang around with enough ska fans to be able
> > to say anything one way
> > >or the other, but I do count a number of hardcore
> > garage rock fans among my
> > >friends and acquaintances, and for me, the main
> > difference I'd say I see
> > >between garage rock fans and power pop fans is that
> > I never see the kind of
> > >plain, unalloyed disgust that shows up so regularly
> > here whenever a band
> > >that can loosely be aligned with "our" form of
> > music shows signs of
> > >breaking out of the protective bubble. (Yes,
> > WELCOME INTERSTATE MANAGERS
> > >topped the Audities poll last year, but I'm
> > probably not the only one who
> > >remembers how controversial "Stacy's Mom" was in
> > some quarters hereabouts,
> > >as a piece of music, as a video, as a hit record,
> > as a song that caused
> > >interlopers and arrivistes to show up at FoW
> > concerts and finally as a song
> > >that Chris Collingswood supposedly regrets writing
> > and recording.) And I
> > >certainly have never seen a more parochial group
> > than the subset of power
> > >pop fans whose only criterion for new music is that
> > it remind them strongly
> > >of music that they've previously enjoyed, and the
> > more it sounds like an
> > >old Badfinger outtake, the better. And other than
> > the extremely rare like
> > >of complete twats like Jeff Connolly, I know no
> > garage rock equivalents to
> > >the Pop Stalinists, who take that "newness and
> > variety scares and angers
> > >me" mindset to such an untenable extent that they
> > think that anything that
> > >doesn't sound like a 10-generation copy of the
> > Beatles just plain "isn't
> > >music." Years ago, such people angered me. Now I
> > mostly just find them
> > >pathetic and vaguely amusing.
> > >
> > >Some forms of music ossify through benign neglect.
> > In some hands, power
> > >pop often seems like it's deliberately chosen to
> > ossify itself.
> > >
> > >S
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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