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| From | Gene Good <javagene@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: The Staw That Broke The Auditites Back. ( Do Electric Sheep |
| Date | Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:46:19 +0000 |
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Coltrane is better than Kenny G.
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 02:03:54 -0500
> From: craigtorso@verizon.net
> Subject: Re: The Staw That Broke The Auditites Back. ( Do Electric Sheep Make A
> To: audities@smoe.org
> CC: audities@smoe.org
>
> Well, I like Helen Love a lot -- I've owned the first two RADIO HITS
> singles comps on Damaged Goods for over a decade, and to this day, I
> adore their cheeky ripoff of the Jam's "Boy About Town," a snarky
> dissing of a trendy poseur called "Girl About Town" -- but again, they
> have as little to do with Nicole Atkins as Rufus Wainwright does.
> Comparing unalike artists to each other and saying that one is
> intrinsically better than the other doesn't get anyone anywhere. You
> might as well say that John Coltrane is better than the Beatles:
> certainly to some people he is, but they're working in such completely
> different styles that that statement is just useless.
>
> And honestly, I like Helen Love fine, but they're not a patch on the
> Pooh Sticks. See, THAT'S a comparison that's worthwhile, because
> Helen Love and the Pooh Sticks (well, excepting MILLION SELLER and
> that not-really-very-good last album, perhaps) were in fact doing
> stylistically very similar stuff. But again, I just don't see enough
> points of comparison between Helen Love and Nicole Atkins to bother
> making the comparison.
>
> S
>
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