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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Lef Unsetz |
| Date | Sun, 25 May 2008 22:47:21 -0400 |
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From: <Scotthomewood@cs.com>
> The Hall and Oates article is case in point. Not only does he
> endlessly write
> about nostalgia like H&O and The Eagles but his example of people
> telling him
> H&O were cheesy and now they're cool etc. Who is saying that stuff?
> Who is
> talking about Hall and Oates right now? WHY would they be talking
> about Hall and
> Oates right now? How does a Hall and Oates nostalgia show affect
> Radiohead or
> Duffy? It doesn't. Not at all. H&O are great artists, yes, but
> hardly on the
> tip of anyone's tongue these days. I guess he saw a show and decided
> to turn
> it into a diatribe about the music business. With caps and
> everything.
I'm loath to in any way stick up for Lefsetz, whom I've always found
useless, but about a year ago, I treated myself to a post-deadline
lunch at the one bar and grill in my neighborhood that doesn't cater
to The Goddamn Students, and while I was sitting at the bar with my
chili dogs and Narragansett, the bartender -- late 20s, female,
semi-hipsterish but not obnoxious about it -- put in a Hall and Oates
greatest hits CD. Not only that, after she asked what I did for a
living, she launched into a fairly long and quite animated monologue
about Hall and Oates, and specifically what a great songwriter Daryl
Hall was. So there's definitely a buzz about them in some circles.
Me, I tend to agree that they were a totally reliable singles
factory -- I'd support a Hall and Oates revival any day over, say, a
Journey revival -- but I still find the production of their '80s
singles so irritatingly gimmicky that listener fatigue sets in after
no more than a couple songs. The '70s stuff like "Sara Smile,"
though...no arguments there.
Blind pig, occasional truffle, etc.
S
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