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| From | Michael Bennett <mrhonorama@ameritech.net> |
| Subject | Re: FW: R snob dictionary |
| Date | Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:57:15 -0700 (PDT) |
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I don't know if they equal Burt, but Andy Partridge
and Neil Finn do some pretty odd things in their
songs, yet still end up with killer melodies and
hooks.
Mike Bennett
--- Dave Seaman <seamand@upmc.edu> wrote:
> I'm looking through the Rock Snob website, and, upon
> perusing the Burt
> Bacharach entry, thinking -- is there any songwriter
> out there whose body of
> material is BOTH as metrically and melodically
> unorthodox AND as supremely
> catchy as Burt's? Of course there are writers that
> surpass BB in one or two
> of these categories, but all three? I can't think
> of one. Comments,
> anyone?
>
>
>
>
> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:39:13 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> From: synchro1 <synchro1@ix.netcom.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: The Rock Snob Dictionary
> Message-ID:
>
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>
> hours of fun:
>
> http://snobsite.com/
>
> sample entry:
>
> Parsons, Gram. Southern, Harvard-educated,
> trustafarian pretty-boy who
> invented country rock by bringing his high-lonesome
> tastes to bear on his
> one album as a Byrd (1968â•˙s Sweetheart of the
> Rodeo, considered the first
> country-rock LP). Parsons and fellow Byrd Chris
> Hillman went on to form the
> Flying Burrito Brothers. A hard-livinâ•˙ soul
> who favored tightfitting NUDIE
> suits custom-decorated with pictures of naked girls
> and marijuana leaves, he
> greatly impressed Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
> (inspiring them to write
> ╲Wild Horses╡), and recorded two Rock
> Snobâ•„ratified solo albums, GP
> and Grievous Angel, before dying of a
> morphine-and-alcohol overdose in a
> motel in Joshua Tree, California, in 1973 at the age
> of 26.
>
>
> See also Fripp, Robert
>
>
>
>
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