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From bob <segarini@rogers.com>
Subject Re: 25 overrated thingies
Date Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:59:50 -0500 (EST)

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Commercially successful?
  Like Jim Nabors, Celine Dion, and The Partridge Family?
  Critically successful?
  Like Arcade Fire. Led Zeppelin, and Amy Winewhore?
  Good?
  Oh yeah...good doesn't matter.
   
  bob
  

Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net> wrote:
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Chasin" 
>> 25. Joy Division - Would such a fuss have been made of this band 
>> had the singer not tragically killed himself right at the start of 
>> their career?
>
> No. Indeed not.
Then please explain the sustained mainstream success of the remaining 
3/4s of the band, the only veterans of the late '70s UK post-punk 
scene still making commercially and critically successful albums as 
recently as two years ago.

S
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