From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!wheps!eagle!mhuxt!pyuxjj!rlr Newsgroups: net.music Title: Re: a comment about surveys (NOT A GRIPE OR A LIST) Article-I.D.: pyuxjj.217 Posted: Tue Jun 1 16:14:38 1982 Received: Wed Jun 2 01:20:37 1982 I wasn't implying that records that sell well are better (God forbid), but somehow there should be a correlation between the number of people buying a record and the number of people who LIKE it. Apparently not, judging by the survey. Apparently, many people buy records the way TV execs think most people watch television---buying the Least Objectionable Record and sort of plopping it on the turntable for background noise. Thus there may be millions of copies of Rumours floating out there that have never actually been LISTENED to. Just sifted into the brain and out again. With this in mind I can see why people are worried about subliminal messages hidden in record albums. I'm sure that this sort of listening pattern is not only true for those listen to MOR like Fleetwood Mac/Eagles multi-platinum albums; it is probably also true for heavy metal geezers, folk rockers, disco lovers, etc. (Probably a lot less true for classical music lovers, but who knows?) If people just put records on their turntables without really LISTENING to them, who knows what sorts of messages might be successfully inserted into them ("Buy more AC/DC albums", "Drive fast cars", "Worship Satan", "Ronald Reagan is a good president...") It just boggles the mind!!!!! Rich Rosen pyuxjj!rlr (Can you find the hidden message in this article?)