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| From | Popdude@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: A New Year's Music Resolution |
| Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:40:24 EST |
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D. Bash:
<<Hi Everyone, In light of the “Franz Ferdinand vs. The Indie Bands Of The
World†discussions on Audities, I would like to recommend that we all make the
following New Year’s Resolution:
The Not Lame website is updated each Friday, adding new releases and other
items they’ve recently acquired. Let’s all put a half-hour aside each week to
go to the Not Lame site and listen to the sound clips on each of the new CDs
for that week. I would recommend that we don’t even read the descriptions,
as they might color our perceptions before we listen (yeah, I’m sure that the
descriptions would “warn†us which CDs to avoid, but sometimes it’s better
to just let the music do the talking. The worst that can happen is that we
spend maybe 30 seconds finding out that we didn’t like
that CD; but on the other hand, we just might find something cool that we
otherwise wouldn’t have bothered checking out).
By listening to the clips on www.notlame.com we accomplish three very
important things: 1. We get turned on to some great new music
2. We’re able to focus our attention on music that otherwise gets very
little, if any, press. While I know that Auditeers have not been “duped†by the
hype machine into buying albums by the Franz Ferdinand of the world, it’s
difficult to deny that the press these albums get does draw our attention to
them. Let’s allocate some of that attention to the indies, which are just as
deserving of it.
3. We give a significant portion of our record buying income both to Not
Lame and to some worthy bands. A half-hour a week. That’s all I ask. :-)>>
Or folks here could just simply buy some CD's from Not Lame, either on a
regular or a semi-regular basis. That'd be cool, too. It's a great site, with
a wide variety of superb pop music, and if anyone has done more than Bruce
Brodeen over the years to further the cause and fly the pop flag, I'd like to
hear about it.
This not to slight anyone else or any other label, by the way.
John B.
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