Return-Path: sendmail 5.67/UCSD-2.2-sun Sun, 1 Aug 93 15:13:10 -0700 for /usr/lib/sendmail -oc -odq -oi -fsocgrad-relay socgrad-list Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1993 15:11:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Tanya Pergola Subject: RE: Music... To: socgrad@ucsd.edu On Sat, 31 Jul 1993 pickerin@ssc.wisc.edu wrote: > I have one thing to say....SAMIAM RULES!....and Jawbreaker...and > Fugazi... > and Sebadoh.... and the New Bomb Turks,etc. But - no offense > meant personally -Bikini Kill? L7? Come on! Those bands (to use one of > Beavis and Butthead's > favorite terms) SUCK!!! Yeah...so what ? I like M&M's...my partner enjoys Stash teas...so how does a laundry list of preferences add to a discussion ? > (By the way, there's an amusing interview with those > two in the newest issue of Rolling Stone. I hate reading music magazines that > don't even have a clue, like Rolling Stone and Spin for instance, but I made > an exception this time) Well, I'm sorry for insulting those bands...but I > just had to do it! Ohhhh I get it...normally you're way too cool to read such "mainstream drivel", ...but you've made an exception in this case and you want to make darned sure we don't get the wrong impression. Over and out...10-4. > P.S. If there are any socgrads out there who are musicians and/or big > music fans, drop me a line and let me hear your thoughts about > music and society, or if you just want to b.s. about aesthetics, > that's cool too! Sorry again for the insult! I just couldn't help > myself. If anybody feels like insulting my music, I'm open to it. > See ya! "MUSIC TELEVISION WILL NOT BE REVOLUTIONIZED!" > (How's that for an 'alternative' MTV slogan?) Yyaaaawwwnnn.....I imagine most of us tired of attitudes like yours in 10th grade... ..on a somewhat related note, why is it that so many folks take great pleasure in deriding and ridiculing MTV ?....If people don't like it why don't they just ignore it ? I mean, when I go to the cinema and watch (what I feel) is a good movie, the last thing I would want to do is go home and bitch about "all those commercial sitcoms" like "Roseanne" or "The Golden Girls"... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ This seems to be the standard MTV critique Oh well... JP bigstar@u.washington.edu