nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) (08/17/85)
> From: trudel@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Jon) > 2) How can we treat you seriously when all you do is pick on some > minor subtopic of the jist of the conversation? I can't wait to read > about how I misspelled something in this. I don't correct people's spelling. I have better things to do with my time, and worrying too much about correct spelling is stupid and pointless. > 3) I like Kate Bush, but I just don't like to find that 3/4 of > the net.music messages relate to KB. Yeah, I agree! It's too bad there aren't any fanatic David Byrne fans to post lots of interesting stuff about him. And I'd love to read lots and lots of stuff about Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Laurie Anderson, Hawkwind, King Crimson, Robert Frip, Bill Nelson, etc., etc. I'm sharing my knowledge and insights. Why doesn't everyone else? > 5) Some people don't like KB, and there's nothing you can do to > change that. I never said that I want to. > Bear with me during the following psuedo-analogy: Suppose you hate > Tibetan goat cheese-making music for some specific reason. How much > pro cheese-making material do you want to read? Not much. I say the > same is true for the KB discussion, and I think a lot of people have > reached the KB saturation point. If I didn't want to read about Tibetan goat cheese-making music, I wouldn't read stuff about it. I'd use my "n" key, or turn the page. I seem to manage okay in skipping by article on PMS in net.women. I haven't posted any messages telling people to shut-up about PMS -- I just don't read all the crap about PMS. > 7) Just to provide you with evidence of what a fool I must be, let > me tell you some of the groups I quite like: B-52s, DEVO, Laurie > Anderson, REM, 'til Tuesday, {Emerson, Lake and Palmer}, Tomita, > Vangelis, Beatles, Ramones, Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, and Gary Numan. Well, if you'd ever listened to John Fox's "Metamatic", there's no way you'd ever be able to listen to Gary Numan again. > From: akd@wuphys.UUCP (Alan K. Dozier) > Okay! We all know who Kate Bush is and some of us have even heard her > music. My question is, How can we compare her to a real Genius such as > Bach? Easily. They're both geniuses! > Do you remember about ten years ago, seeing KB on Don Kirschner's Rock > Concert Fat chance! > There is no doubt that this woman is talented. But,the last thing that > any of us need is a new God. No, the problem is that there aren't enough gods. > It is my opinion that this lady receive more recognition than in the > past, but let's not get carried away! She got plenty of recognition in the past! It's now that she doesn't get enough recognition. > In closing, give any (above average) musician a Fairlight and twelve > months and see if they do not come up with what someone would call > genius.....do you get my drift?.....case closed. In closing, give any (above average) musician a pipe organ and a week-end and see if they do not come up with what someone would call genius....do you get my drift?.....case closed. -Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)
jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (08/20/85)
> > There is no doubt that this woman is talented. But,the last thing that > > any of us need is a new God. > > No, the problem is that there aren't enough gods. > Sorry, Doug, gotta disagree with you there. Gods are things that people worship without thinking about it, or them. We don't need any more things like that. (Yes, Rich, that's just my opinion.) What does this have to do with music (isn't that a line from Schoenberg?) ? Jeff Winslow