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From: "Holmes Online" <bholmes_fm@msn.com>
> I'll argue that not enough people heard them to make a top 25 
> "influence" list. Not that they wouldn't be worthy - I'm ambivalent 
> there - but to be influenced by someone you need to encounter them 
> at that certain stage in your career. I suspect there's a long list 
> of bands ahead of these guys.

I'm a fairly knowledgeable power pop fan with an eye towards the 
music's history.  I'm not sure I could name three Blue Ash songs other 
than "Abracadabra," and frankly, I tend to think of the Records' 
version first, because that was the one I first heard.  I'm not saying 
they're not worthy or anything, but I'm with Bill: I wouldn't think of 
them as anywhere close to a Top 25 act.

S