And who is it that decides on this so-called "quality criteria"? Just 
curious.


>From: "AssociationWorks" <AssociationWorks@comcast.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: The Decemberists?
>Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:44:25 -0800
>
>Being around college radio a good part of my waking hours during the week
>this has been a growing irk of mine as well. Lowering the bar on singing,
>production
>values, and playing ability in support of being an "anti rock star" or
>whatever it is...is
>seems to be a growing trend in indie music. I guess in reality the "bar" is
>set by people
>buying the stuff....but from my perspective (as a musician) there has to be
>some
>quality control, otherwise the definition of "music" will become terminally
>diluted.
>
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> >
> > Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:08:01 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
> > From: Miles Goosens <outdoorminer@mindspring.com>
> > To: audities@smoe.org
> > Subject: Re: The Decemberists?
> > Message-ID:
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> > This has been increasingly problematic for me too.  Not that I require
>technically good singing or anything, and the devaluation of the lead 
>singer
>is probably at least in part a logical, natural anti-"rock star!" reaction,
>which philosophically I can understand and even support to an extent.  But
>at the end of the day, turns out that most of the time I want to hear an
>interesting, charismatic voice.  Is that so wrong?
> >
> > I blame J. Mascis.
> >
>
>