Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!tektronix!reed!soren From: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Peterson) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Opinion vs. Fact, KT Bush, Gratefully dead, etc. Message-ID: <2102@reed.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 03:30:13 EST Article-I.D.: reed.2102 Posted: Mon Nov 4 03:30:13 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 21:52:22 EST References: <1150@decwrl.UUCP> <262@mit-eddie.UUCP> Reply-To: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen) Distribution: na Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 22 Summary: >I've always thought if you can't say it cryptically, why say it all? I would like to thank John Sellens for responding to this. It saved me the trouble of doing it myself. (Unless Doug forgot to put a :-) which also strikes me as a possibility. . .) >Oh, yes I can. Because Madonna is just plain bad! The word was defined >for cases like this. > Doug Alan Wait a minute, I like Madonna, not everything, but even you have to admit that "Like a Virgin" has a really cool beat, you know--da-da-DA-dada-da-da da-da-DA-da-da-da. . . Seriously, Doug, you can't have it both ways, either there is an absolute standard of taste, in which case you can say (for instance) that Madonna is better than Kate Bush or there isn't one in which case you can't. Have a nice day, Soren Petersen