(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.
-- 
Chuck Warner
Hyped to Death CDs/Messthetics
P.O. Box 351
Westminster, Massachusetts 01473
http://hyped2death.com