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| From | rob@splitsville.com |
| Subject | Re: Welcome to Uncool Island! |
| Date | Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:40:28 +0000 |
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If "Quadrophenia" lands you on Uncool Island, then hand me my coke-bottle eye glasses.
Nothing about that album is uncool. Nothing.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Jeff" <jeff.teez@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 16:18:57
To: Audities<audities@smoe.org>
Subject: Welcome to Uncool Island!
Dave S. wrote:
>Which just goes to show us, once again, that one man's floor is another
man's ceiling. Now, I love a lot of the stuff touted on this list - and
I love simple 3 chord rock and roll (from Buddy Holly to Green Day),
Beatles A-Z, new wave and punk from Costello to Ramones to XTC, and
quite a lot of power pop 70s to today. But I also love "BIG",
overproduced songs - what you are calling overblown. "Born To Run" is
one of my favorite songs/albums of all time, in fact Springsteen's work
up until around Born in the USA is one of my favorite catalogs. And
while I am no Meatloaf fan, I love "Paradise by the DBL" - it makes me
smile, not gag. Of course, I also am a fan of "Scenes From An Italian
Restaurant", Tommy, Quadrophenia, the second side of Abbey Road, the
suite from Chicago 2, etc. Maybe because I grew up in a house where my
parents often played their "West Side Story" and Rodgers/Hammerstein
records...?
Hell, I even enjoy some early Kansas, Genesis and Yes at times (I say
early - I have zero interest in just about anything Phil Collins or
after the mid 70s).
Am I now banished to the "uncool" island? ;-)
>Dave
I say:
Welcome to "Uncool Island" Dave! It's great to have you as a neighbor.
We try not to think of ourselves as "banished", but I think it's always
at least somewhere in the back of our minds. I'm tellin' you though man,
we have the BEST parties. If there's anything we can do to help you get
settled in, please just say the word. It's a big island and there's
always room for more.
jeff teez
Hospitality Director
NP: Styx, "The Grand Illusion"
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