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| From | jchasin@nyc.rr.com |
| Subject | Re: 25 overrated thingies |
| Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:57:43 -0500 |
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I'd chalk it up to Gen Xer nostalgia.
----- Original Message -----
From: Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net>
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 0:53 am
Subject: Re: 25 overrated thingies
To: audities@smoe.org
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com>
> >> 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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