I don't know if they equal Burt, but Andy Partridge
and Neil Finn do some pretty odd things in their
songs, yet still end up with killer melodies and
hooks.

Mike Bennett

--- Dave Seaman <seamand@upmc.edu> wrote:

> I'm looking through the Rock Snob website, and, upon
> perusing the Burt
> Bacharach entry, thinking -- is there any songwriter
> out there whose body of
> material is BOTH as metrically and melodically
> unorthodox AND as supremely
> catchy as Burt's?  Of course there are writers that
> surpass BB in one or two
> of these categories, but all three?  I can't think
> of one.  Comments,
> anyone? 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:39:13 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> From: synchro1 <synchro1@ix.netcom.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: The Rock Snob Dictionary
> Message-ID: 
>
<2037058.1118338754299.JavaMail.root@wamui-milano.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
> 
> hours of fun:
> 
> http://snobsite.com/
> 
> sample entry:
> 
> Parsons, Gram. Southern, Harvard-educated,
> trustafarian pretty-boy who
> invented country rock by bringing his high-lonesome
> tastes to bear on his
> one album as a Byrd (1968â•˙s Sweetheart of the
> Rodeo, considered the first
> country-rock LP). Parsons and fellow Byrd Chris
> Hillman went on to form the
> Flying Burrito Brothers. A hard-livinâ•˙ soul
> who favored tightfitting NUDIE
> suits custom-decorated with pictures of naked girls
> and marijuana leaves, he
> greatly impressed Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
> (inspiring them to write
> ╲Wild Horses╡), and recorded two Rock
> Snobâ•„ratified solo albums, GP
> and Grievous Angel, before dying of a
> morphine-and-alcohol overdose in a
> motel in Joshua Tree, California, in 1973 at the age
> of 26.
> 
> 
> See also Fripp, Robert
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------ End of Forwarded Message
> 
> 
> 


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