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| From | "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Re: leaning on a bathtub rail |
| Date | Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:17:59 -0700 |
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--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, Popdude@a... wrote:
> Funny you should bring this up....another journalist/Auditeer and I, who
have
> been around since the halcyon days of power pop (har har) in the '90s,
> noticed that our good friend Jordan Oakes seemed to ALWAYS reference Shoes
in his
> band descriptions and reviews in the late, great YELLOW PILLS, even if the
band
> in question didn't seem to sound much like Shoes at all.
>
> So it's become great sport for us to sometimes conjure up fake
comparisons,
> with the most ludicrous, disparate acts imaginable---and Shoes---as
reference
> points.
>
> "Have you heard this record? Wow! It sounds like Miles Davis, Polyphonic
> Spree..and Shoes!"
>
> "No, no, it sounds more like Ornette Coleman, vintage Megadeath..and
Shoes!"
>
> OK, guess tou had to be there.
>
> JB
Omigod, of course I had to see this after I wrote my post! LOL! I guess
the entire cat has been let out of the bag now!!
David
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