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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: grammusings |
| Date | Mon, 09 Feb 2004 18:50:41 -0500 |
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At 03:41 PM 2/9/2004 -0800, shawn campbell wrote:
>Man, if you don't like something, that's your right,
>but to say a certain genre "isn't music," well, that
>just smacks of having become your parents (WILL YOU
>TURN THAT GARBAGE DOWN!?!?!?! THAT'S NOISE, NOT
>MUSIC!!!!). Seems to me people were known to make
>that same accusation about several British boys
>playing guitars and shaking their hair.
That's just the thing, Shawn. As a genre, power pop -- like too many of
its adherents -- has become the Mr. Wilson of rock and roll, blindly
dismissing anything that's happened in the past quarter-century as irrelevant.
S
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