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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: McCartney is God Get over it |
| Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:21:12 -0500 |
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Or:
"How can you listen to that Nickelback nonsense? Now, Grand Funk Railroad
-- that was a band!"
Mike Bennett
Blog: http://blog.myspace.com/mrhonorama
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>From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: McCartney is God Get over it
>Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:00:41 -0400
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net>
>
>>Sorry, man. I'm going to call you an "aging whiner."
>>This may just peg me a snotty-assed GenXer, but I really can't stand it
>>when Boomers start disappearing up their own backsides like this.
>
>Two things: Bowie, not McCartney, wrote "Absolute Beginners" (a crap movie
>made from an absolutely terrific book, incidentally), and Chris Penn is
>Michael's dead brother.
>
>Other than that, I tend to side more with Micek's side on this, but my
>problem isn't with baby boomers who prefer the music of their youth to that
>which came after -- that's a natural reaction -- but with baby boomers who
>adopt an attitude of smarmy superiority over anyone who had the temerity to
>be born after them. I'm not going to name names or anything, but I've had
>people on this very list basically tell me "Oh man, you weren't there,
>you're never gonna understand why our music was so much better than yours."
> Which...I'm sorry, but that's such a load of crap. That is the exact
>same blinkered thinking that led to the baby boomers' parents saying "How
>can you listen to that Beatle nonsense? The Glenn Miller Orchestra, now
>*that* was a band!"
>
>S
>
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