Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Settling the JSB/KB controversy once and for all Message-ID: <387@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 08:30:13 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxr.387 Posted: Fri Aug 9 08:30:13 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 21:59:17 EDT References: <1446@pyuxd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 27 > Kate Bush is obviously the better and more important > composer because she's better looking. Huh? > Isn't that the proper basis for judging music? I mean, Prince stinks > because he looks funny, right? No need to even listen to his music > to make a judgment there. Why bother? It's so obvious. And Michael > Jackson's music stinks because he's effeminate. There, you didn't even > have to waste your time listening to the music and making a reasoned > decision about it! On the other hand, Arnold Schoenberg's music is > great because of his unusual and interesting haircut. Never mind > the way it sounds, that's irrelevant. 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 :-) > Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr Whatever the point of this article is (I don't know, please enlighten me, Rich) 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. Just setting the record straight Marcel Simon