ark@rabbit.UUCP (06/29/83)
Perhaps it's time to split net.music into (roughly) classical and popular.
ellis@flairvax.UUCP (06/30/83)
Regarding a recent suggestion to split net.music into classical and
popular -- there don't seem to have been many articles at all about
classical music. The most frequent mention to classical lately is
in net.audio, usually about hi-tech issues of stuff like 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, 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)9212osd@houxa.UUCP (06/30/83)
I second the suggestion of splitting net.music along the lines of classical music and popular music.
woods@hao.UUCP (06/30/83)
I agree. Subgroups were designed to help people save time filtering out
articles. Why *not* have a net.music.punk, net.music.rock, net.music.class,
net.music.jazz, etc.? The number of articles in net.music is getting so high
I almost don't have time to wade through the group any more. With the advent
of 2.10 and the "U" command, there is no reason not to have lots of groups.
GREG
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!hao!woodsellis@flairvax.UUCP (Michael Ellis) (07/02/83)
As a serious classical music listener, I REJECT the concept that there
exists a split between 'classical' and 'popular' music, except possibly
in the minds of a few elitist egomaniacs and fashion mongers.
If the split is to occur anywhere, let's not use such an inaccurate
terminology as 'classical' vs. 'popular'. Sounds like what you really
mean is 'dead' vs. 'alive'.
still listening to people who are both dead and ALIVE
Michael Ellis - Fairchild AI Lab - Palo Alto CAucbesvax.turner@ucbcad.UUCP (07/05/83)
#R:rabbit:-164200:ucbesvax:6600001:000:151 ucbesvax!turner Jul 3 08:16:00 1983 And how about net.music.genesis, just to handle the misty-eyed reminiscers from this band's cult-following? Michael Turner ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner
chabot@miles.DEC (L S Chabot) (03/21/85)
Frankly, I thought Rich Rosen's posting to be pretty funny. (Maybe I get a
wider bandwidth on my terminal than some do, because I find a lot of his
witty postings amusing even if I seriously disagree with his viewpoint.)
Dick Dunn == >
> (D'Heads are always out to make converts.:-)
This and the comment about discussing non-music topics makes me wonder if
perhaps you aren't barking up the wrong newsgroup, and that what really this
newsgroup really wants to be is something like
net.music.religion
or net.religion.dead
or net.way_of_life.dead
:-)
But seriously, all the stress on how readers of net.music "MIGHT" be annoyed by
a lot of dead traffic seems rather to indicate that it's not the net.music
people who care as much as those who wish to now receive their dead undiluted.
L S Chabot
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USWail: DEC, LMO4/H4, 150 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752ll9001@ucsfcca.UUCP (Larry Roszkowiak) (08/31/85)
How about a news group for net.music.guitar? Since the guitar is probably
the most popular musical instrument in the US right now (and has been for
quite some time and possibly will be for some time in the future) guitar
players are constantly seeking new media through which they can contact
each other and exchange information.
Larry Roszkowiak
UCSF Computer Center
UUCP: ucbvax!ucsfcgl!ucsfcca.UCSF!ll9001spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) (09/04/85)
In article <405@ucsfcca.UUCP> ll9001@ucsfcca.UUCP (Larry Roszkowiak) writes: >How about a news group for net.music.guitar? Since the guitar is probably >the most popular musical instrument in the US right now (and has been for >quite some time and possibly will be for some time in the future) guitar >players are constantly seeking new media through which they can contact >each other and exchange information. If all you want to do is contact each other, start a mailing list. -- Gene "3 months and counting" Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf