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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Shazam and Ashlee rock the charts |
| Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 03:53:37 -0400 |
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From: <garymaher@juno.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 2:38 AM
Subject: Re: Shazam and Ashlee rock the charts
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:00:13 -0400 audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
>> > Please. When it's established that lots and lots and lots of
>> > teenagers really want to hear a band rip off Cheap Trick adn the
> Move,
>> > then the Shazam will reach that audience. Not before.
>
> . . . who were just ripping off the Beatles.
>
> Or is that why they didn't sell?
I genuinely still have no idea why the Move never did a thing in the
States and were basically ignored after their initial stretch of
singles in the UK. I still submit that they're one of the few UK
bands of the class of '66-'67 who made it all the way into the '70s
with their artistic credibility intact: pretty much them, Pink Floyd
and maybe a few others. (The Soft Machine just miss the deadline: it
was all diminishing returns after THIRD.) But frankly, I always
thought they owed much more to the Kinks and the Who than the Beatles;
it wasn't until Jeff Lynne was on his own that that fetish started up
in full. Still, I don't think "Flowers in the Rain" would shift many
units in 2004; as for Cheap Trick...hell, not even us folks in their
loyal fanbase liked that last record much!
Speaking of freakbeat-era bands, there's a new Creation album coming
out on Rev-Ola called PSYCHEDELIC ROSE and subtitled "The Great Lost
Creation Album." It is with a heavy heart that I must report that the
album is basically unmitigated shit, a reunion album that Eddie and
Kenny recorded in the mid-'80s that features weak songwriting,
middling performances and godawful production that throws every Phil
Collins-era cliche into the mix. Avoid with extreme caution, if only
to spare yourself the truly wretched remake of "Making Time," a song
that definitely was not screaming to be updated.
S
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