Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: The Best This-ism, Bush-Mania, Frip Message-ID: <1986@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 23:24:16 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1986 Posted: Tue Oct 29 23:24:16 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 23:59:04 EST References: <22300026@ada-uts.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 15 > What amazes me is the reasons some people like the music they do. Why > people actually pay money for a Phil Collins record instead of waiting > for it to be (over) played on the "easy listening" station is beyond me. > But I'm not totally knocking Phil Collins...he is probably the most > prolific pop music generator around today ("In The Air Tonight" is in > my opinion one of his best songs...why can't he do more like them? The > obvious answer: pop music listeners don't want them). But I ask myself > when I listen to one of his songs: what is missing? [WAYNE WYLUPSKI] GOOD question? (One worth asking Paul McCartney and maybe Stevie Wonder, too. We know they have the talent; why do they toss it off on pap?) (And about the rest of your article: well said!) -- Anything's possible, but only a few things actually happen. Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr