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Re: 9th Wave

From: "Donna Henderson" <donna@math.uconn.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:50:04 +0000
Subject: Re: 9th Wave
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> At 5:53 AM -0800 6-5-97, pDaleCampbell wrote:
> <>snip>
> 
> >Then...
> >On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 13:42:46 -0400 (EDT), Dongerous! <fastslow@idt.net>
> >wrote:
> >> At 4:14 PM -0000 6-4-97, stephanie bush wrote:
> >> >but I would be _really_ curious as to why you don't like it.
> >>
> >> I went back and listened to it yet again after posting...just to make sure.
> >> And, yes, I can say quite confidently that I find "The Ninth Wave" to be
> >> the biggest load of pretentious nonsense since "Tales of Topographic
> >> Oceans" by Yes. I feel like someone is forcing me to listen to the audio
> >> portion of a bad art movie without at least letting me be distracted by the
> >> visuals. Obtuse dialogue and obscure production may impress the
> >> impressionable, but I find it to be hopelessly self-indulgent.
> >
> >I don't know what's going on here, but at least you're consistent.
> >You don't like what I consider the masterpieces of my favorite female
> >artist and group!
> 
> That's okay. You probably don't think Iggy Pop's "Raw Power" was one of the
> pinnacles of art in Western Civilization.
> 

You mispelled "Lust for Life"

Please Add Iggy to my O-> list, along with

Johnny Cash
David Bowie
ramones

>{HUGE SNIP} 

d~