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[as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (andrew david simchik)]

In <9211171115.aa16628@scorn.sco.COM> news@sco.COM (News admin) writes:

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>From: jondr@sco.COM (Desi The Three-Armed Wonder Comic)
>Subject: Re: Kate/Sexual Orientation
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>Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:15:18 GMT
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>I am not as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (andrew david simchik).  I didn't say:
>>I'll
>>give you Frankie, but then they were like Depeche, alternative crossovers. 

>frankie goes to hollywood were targeted at the mainstream and as far as i
>know they never spent any time in the alternative charts before becoming
>huge #1 sellers.  shit, one ban from the BBC and any wanker can be #1!
>(we're attempting to create a story about our new record being all about
>pedophilia in a crass attempt to sell more units, but i don't think anyone
>is buying the story... after all, it IS an instrumental piece...)

Sorry...I was treading on uncertain ground as I am not as intimately
familiar with Frankie as I am with many of the others.

>>Soft Cell I know nothing about...can't be *that* mainstream, can they?

>geez, where were you?  "tainted love" was a huge hit even in the US.  they
>had many successful singles in the UK.

I was probably listening to other music...I'm 18, you know...I don't know
when they were popular but I only started listening to modern music 6 years
ago, and have been backtracking ever since.  I'll just take your word for it
then.

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