Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!rick From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: HEAVY METAL (DAZE) Message-ID: <572@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 23:18:25 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.572 Posted: Sun Dec 16 23:18:25 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 03:01:26 EST References: <558@aluxe.UUCP> <181@water.UUCP> <569@uwmacc.UUCP> Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 20 Summary: [ "When they kick at your first line, how you gonna go?" ] In article <569@uwmacc.UUCP> myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers) writes: >I'm not sure how I go about categorizing, but I believe that it is highly >correlated with musical talent. > There's always the infallible Mad Magazine method of categorizing: What I like is good taste, and what I don't like is bad taste. That said, I'll plug for a very BAD band indeed, the Ramones. These guys have no talent and no stage presence. However, they aren't pretentious, either. I got through an entire class in artificial intelligence while listening to my tape of "Teenage Lobotomy". Obviously, a case of good bad taste. Or are they bad good taste? It's so confusing without my frontal lobes.... -- "Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em/That I got no cerebellum...." Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick