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| From | shawn campbell <thursdayinjune@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Top 20/Franz Ferdinand |
| Date | Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:40:49 -0800 (PST) |
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I think no one is standing with you, Jeff, because
you're making the assumption that a group of rather
intense and involved music fans is being fairly easily
swayed by the publicity machine. Is it true that the
hype/success of Franz Ferdinand has meant that more
people on this list heard Franz than heard, say,
Aberfeldy, another band out of Scotland that put out a
good, catchy record this year? Sure. But it seems
pretty unlikely that that many people would include
the record in their top 20 if, after being moved by
the publicity to pick it up, they still didn't think
it held anything special.
Hype may make you more likely to hear a record, but it
doesn't make you more likely to *like* it, unless you
are 13 years old. It would seem this is even more
true of a group like the audities list, who, being
power pop fans, obviously are not that concerned with
what's trendy at the moment.
While they are not as frequent as we would like,
sometimes there are instances where what's popular and
what's good actually do collide.
And for what it's worth, I didn't care much for the
Franz Ferdinand album - I thought it was kind of
samey. But I don't assume everyone on the list who
dug it this year was just a sucker captured by the
hype. I just assume we have different likes and
dislikes.
--Shawn
(jeff text)
Not that I need any help standing up to Stewart Mason,
but I can't
believe I'm the only person on the list who feels this
way about bands like
Franz Ferdinand....or, maybe I am. And for the record,
I'm not telling
you what to like, Stewart. You can sit in your house
and listen to
Orange Juice records all day long for all
I care. My original post was just to point out the
notable style gap
between FF and the rest of the bands in the Top 10 so
far. My opinion is
not gospel by any means, but it makes for an
interesting thread...and
is worthy of trying to figure out.
And this is not a diss to people who genuinely like
the record. There
are lots of people who do, despite the vast amount of
press they get. I
just feel a little put-off by trying to figure out
what the "Best of
2004" is when the pool is tainted with over-saturated
band like Franz
Ferdinand.
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