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| From | Chuck Warner <chuck@hyped2death.com> |
| Subject | various things |
| Date | Mon, 4 Feb 2008 23:39:34 -0500 |
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(1) I'm still licking my wounds over the scandalously low ranking of
Teenline's Shivvers CD (#67) in Borack's book ;o) (but thanks) ...and
consoling myself that the Keepers "In the Meantime" CD-R could hardly
have made the top 100 for being so vanishingly unseen AND unheard
(152 sales to date - plus press copies and the 80 or so that the band
got) (Kevin Hunt please send me your address off-list and I'll send
you one!). And then there's the Bill Lloyd LP I put out in '87...
(sigh.
http://hyped2death.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=34&products_id=122
) But The Wind LP still seems like the most egregious omission. (only
one of its many wonderful tracks is on Teenline #105:
http://www.tansleeve.com/ may be able to point you to more...)
(2) Kevin is spot on with his comment:
It's the amount of time & space devoted "Starbucks Rock" artists
like Atkins & revisionist post about the virtues of bands like Bread
etc. on Auditiies that have turned it from a "must read" to a "lets
see whats up on Audtities this month" read.
Maybe my pop aesthetics are more out of whack with the list then I
think. The core roots of the list's aesthetic I'm guessing would come
from the Beatles-Raspberries family tree. I guess where your
personal branches veer off from here is where the troubles starts...
But...
(3) As long as folks are debating group netiquette, may I point out
that in the overwhelmingly Y-chromosomed world of pop rock (however
defined) fandom, one really should greet wild enthusiasm for ANY
female-fronted act/band with a grain of salt - and some (preemptive)
extra tolerance. Feelings are easily hurt - not the performer's, but
their fans'. One lonely guy's aimee mann is another's Kirsty MacColl
is another's Tori Amos is another's Laurie Bogin (sorry, had to do
that - we played her LP to death back in '75 or so at WYBC - once the
radio station home to David Geffen, John Pareles, Jon Tiven, Debra
Rae Cohen, yours truly, Paul Kolderie, Sean Slade, and even maybe
Spike Priggen)(don't ask about Emerson Bimby)... is another's Nicole
Atkins or Helen Love. Once in a while she really IS the real thing,
but the kindest (and most flame-retardant) policy may be to let
everyone enjoy/fantasize about our 'real things' in peace --without
reflexively pointing out our heroines' so evident shortcomings.
Scroll down, hit delete, hum a few bars of Shake Some Action,
complain about Gigolo Aunts instead, whatever it takes...
(4) There's vast amounts of pop hooks (slugging it out with the usual
home-recording diminished chords) out now on Messthetics #104 and
#105. Not for the faint of heart (or those over-fond of American
Idol), but at heart they're all, always popsongs:
http://hyped2death.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=31
So what's next?
peace,
C.
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Chuck Warner
Hyped to Death CDs/Messthetics
P.O. Box 351
Westminster, Massachusetts 01473
http://hyped2death.com
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