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From | Marty Rudnick <mrudnick@marturo.com> |
Subject | Re: The Decemberists? |
Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:38:34 -0800 (PST) |
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The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame?
---- <audities@smoe.org> wrote:
>
> And who is it that decides on this so-called "quality criteria"? Just
> curious.
>
>
> >From: "AssociationWorks" <AssociationWorks@comcast.net>
> >Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
> >To: <audities@smoe.org>
> >Subject: Re: The Decemberists?
> >Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:44:25 -0800
> >
> >Being around college radio a good part of my waking hours during the week
> >this has been a growing irk of mine as well. Lowering the bar on singing,
> >production
> >values, and playing ability in support of being an "anti rock star" or
> >whatever it is...is
> >seems to be a growing trend in indie music. I guess in reality the "bar" is
> >set by people
> >buying the stuff....but from my perspective (as a musician) there has to be
> >some
> >quality control, otherwise the definition of "music" will become terminally
> >diluted.
> >
> > > ------------------------------
> > >
> > > Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:08:01 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
> > > From: Miles Goosens <outdoorminer@mindspring.com>
> > > To: audities@smoe.org
> > > Subject: Re: The Decemberists?
> > > Message-ID:
> ><23940585.1134662881349.JavaMail.root@mswamui-valley.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
> > >
> > > This has been increasingly problematic for me too. Not that I require
> >technically good singing or anything, and the devaluation of the lead
> >singer
> >is probably at least in part a logical, natural anti-"rock star!" reaction,
> >which philosophically I can understand and even support to an extent. But
> >at the end of the day, turns out that most of the time I want to hear an
> >interesting, charismatic voice. Is that so wrong?
> > >
> > > I blame J. Mascis.
> > >
> >
> >
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