sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) (11/17/89)
Someone, irrelevant who, asks in rec.music.newage about Laurie Anderson's new album "Strange Angels": >Has anyone else heard this new album? I really like it. Much more >textural than her pervious stuff. Her use of processing and vocals >remind me faintly of Enya. But she still has the witty lyrics and what >I've always liked about her: incisive social commentary without being >obnoxious. I'm getting tired of this. The answer to the initial question is YES. The album has been heavily discussed in rec.music.misc, so if the poster had been reading that group, he would have had the answer without posting. And he is not the only one. Frequently similar happens in rec.music.cd and alt.rock-n-roll, more seldom in rec.music.bluenote. (I don't read other r.m.* groups, so I don't know about them.) Someone asks a question about something which already been beaten to death in another group, most often in r.m.misc, since that is the biggest group. OK, it happens that questions are posted to the same group as where the discussion has been, but this division in several newsgroups aggrevates the problem. And the more newsgroups we create, the more of this kind of articles we get. An argument often heard for splitting of subgroups from r.m.misc is that some people think they don't have the time to read the enitire r.m.misc. Well, I can go for egoistic arguments too. I don't have the time with more subgroups from r.m.misc in subjects that interests me. So make that 1-1. Now, I'm not calling for collapsing the rec.music hierarchy, since that would be a mission impossible, but keep what I said above in mind when the next guy comes up and proposes rec.muisc.something. -- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se