ellis@flairvax.UUCP (06/30/83)
Regarding a recent suggestion (in net.news.group) to split net.music
into classical and popular:
There don't seem to have been many articles at all about classical
music (too bad). The most frequent mention to classical lately is
in net.audio, usually about hi-tech recordings of Wellington's
Victory and the 1812 Overture.
Perhaps a better split would be between commercial/mass oriented music
that's "really climbing the charts this week" and, well, just music.
We could call them 'net.music.$$$' vs. 'net.music.???'.
The $$$ group would be used for articles about Human League, Men at Work,
Barry Manilow, Hooked on XXX, DISCOfied jazz & syntho-wavo-pop, top forty
anything, and other stuff you can play at parties**.
The ??? group would receive articles ranging from anonymous 9th century
composers to aging blues singers, and would encompass such topics as
Surgical Penis Clinic, Tennstedt's latest Mahler release, Cabaret
Voltaire, John Coltrane, Millions of Dead Cops... you know, stuff
that empties out a room in 5 seconds flat leaving you in blissful
solitude.
Well, it's just another idea.
Michael Ellis - Fairchild AI Lab - Palo Alto CA - (415) 858-4270
** (not MY parties)