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From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: "Purple Rain" vs. "Ice Cream Castles"
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Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 10:04:39 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 15 10:04:39 1984
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> From: rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone)

> I am the owner of both of these albums, and I am as disapointed
> with the latter as I am pleased with the former.  Although I
> think The Time nearly blew away The Revolution in the movie,
> I find The Time's music almost boring without the visual
> re-enforcement.  Maybe I'm just a victim of MTV!  I think one
> problem may be that The Time is really a funk band, while The
> Revolution is the first group to produce black music that
> white boys can dance to since Sly and the Family Stone.  This
> is not meant to be a racist staement, it's just an observation
> on the last twenty years of rock and roll.  I will probably
> sell off "Ice Cream Castles" because I can't enjoy The Time on
> record like I can on film.  And there's the pity! [:-/-)]

You are a victim of MTV!  In a way though, everyone is who watches it a lot
(I know, since I used to watch it all the time before I moved to NJ).  The
Time's pre-MTV music is really funky.  If you can ever get to hear their
earlier albums, like "What Time Is It" you'll find they are just as dance-
able as The Revolution.
-- 
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Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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