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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Musical Prejudice
Message-ID: <688@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 23:38:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 23:38:13 1985
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In article <27@pixel.UUCP> vsh@pixel.UUCP (vsh) writes:
>OK music aficionados, what do you think of the following proposition:
>
>	One's reaction to a given album/song/group is determined 
>	more by what one has heard or read about the
>	album/song/group than by the actual music itself.
>
>To what extent do you agree or disagree, and why.


If you mean *my* reaction to a given song, then I disagree TOTALLY!

Hey, this isn't high school!  I listen to whatever I damn well please,
and if I'd rather hear Sue Thompson singing "Norman" than the collected
works of you-know-who... well, that's my prerogative!  You think *I* care
if some twit considers it "uncool" to play the Turtles' "Outside Chance"
100 times in a row?


Let me quote my favorite magazine on the subject:

[Discussion of the "We Are The World" video...]

"These are the sounds that herald in a new wave - a new wave of Patti Pages
and Eddie Fishers!  My dad's got hipper sideburns than any of these clowns!

"Don't let anyone tell you yer livin' in the past for listenin' to cool
sounds 'cause how can someone call you narrow-minded when they can't name
5 Bo Diddley songs?  The Cars are the past - shag haircuts, eunuch voices,
etc.  JERRY LEE LEWIS IS THE FUTURE!!!!..."


The article rambles on:

"... as long as old turd DJ's, writers, and other music biz cretins who
rose to prominence in the 70's pull the strings, rock & roll will always
be hovered over by the big dark cloud of ROCK MUSIC!  [See flamage elsewhere 
in net.music for a discussion of the difference.]  "All the world's on a
one-way ticket to heck", like my buddy Adny Shernoff tried to warn the
masses!  Look around, it's everywhere!  There's people called yuppies who
*wanna* be square and spare no expense getting there -- YOW!!  They're
changing the formula to Coca-Cola, too!  That's like Elvis gettin' plastic
surgery to look like Jim Backus!!  ARRGGH!!!"


The above quotes are from KICKS magazine #4, available for $4.00 from
KICKS, Box 646, Cooper Station, NY NY 10003.  Lotsa great articles including
an interview with Joyce Randolph, White Castle news, Midwestern surf bands,
the mid-60's Fort Worth teen scene, tons of rockabilly coverage, a
hilarious hoax alleging that Question Mark was actually Bobby Rydell,
articles on Jerome Green, Fred Blassie, Wanda Jackson, the Trashmen reunion...

Oops, gotta go now... sounds like a skip in "Little Black Egg"...


AWR