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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Settling the JSB/KB controversy once and for all
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Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 00:09:06 EDT
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>>Kate Bush is obviously the better and more important composer because she's
>>better looking.

> Huh?  [MARCEL SIMON]

Marcel, if you don't know serious musical criticism when you see it,
with an inredibly objective basis for judgment behind it, you should
not be posting to net.music at all.  The above quote is just as serious
an example of criticism as the last sentence was.  (Get it?)

>>On the other other hand, the
>>Go-Go's are a bunch of girls from Los Angeles who dress funny, thus
>>their music is of no consequence (eh, Marcel?).  Why, this is as
>>easy as judging the quality of a piece of music by the types of instruments
>>used in playing it!  (It's a good thing nobody does that :-)

> Whatever the point of this article is (I don't know, please enlighten me,
> Rich) ...

To make a comment on the way some people judge music, as especially noted
by the example I gave about criticisms about Prince (he looks slimy [to
whom?], ergo his music stinks).

> I better respond to it, since it mentions me by name. You may have missed
> what I said about the Go-Gos, but dressing funny was not part of it.
> Not being able to create and perform music of consequence was but looks
> and clothes were not.

No more or less "consequence" than your idol, Mr. Ellington.  Oh come on,
define "consequence".  The Go-Go's had enough good music in their
repertoire to label your judgment of them as sour grapes.  Your remark
about the Go-Go's was throwaway material and hardly the general subject
of the article, though it seemed to tie in well with the notion of
anybody who judges music based on non-musical characteristics.  (Like
"that uses a rhythm machine, therefore...")  OK???

> Just setting the record straight

I wasn't aware that it had ben warped...
-- 
"Wait a minute.  '*WE*' decided???   *MY* best interests????"
					Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr