Re: Other Artists; OK! I Give Up!

[Dongerous! <fastslow@idt.net>]

At 4:35 PM -0700 7-21-97, <gearnoise@VNET.IBM.COM> wrote:
>I was trying to keep up with compiling a list of other performers
>people in this group listen to, but it had gotten so big and was growing
>so fast that I finally realized I would be covering the entire stock of
>the rock section of an average record store.  I knew it was really
>getting out of hand when someone added Hole to the list.

Hey, hey, hey! I included Courtney Love/Hole on the first go 'round. If you
like gearnoise, you gotta love Hole. Plus, they make great videos.

>One trend of note: Hardly any Country Music fans (Hooray!).

I'm not into country music, but I don't see anything wrong with it.

>Also, little/no R&B,

Rap kinda killed R&B. You just about have to go back to the '60s to find
anything decent.

>Rap,

I think a couple of us mentioned the Beastie Boys.

> or "Easy Listening".

Hello? I saw lots of Easy Listening...Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Gordon
Lightfoot and  Enya just to name a few.

>Not much folk or Irish, not enough Blues.

How much would be enough?

>Of the few classical composers thrown in, I was very much surprised that
>none of the "tone poem" composers made it.  If ya like KaTe, ya oughta
>like Debussy, Respighi, R Strauss, Ravel, Stravinsky, etc.  They weren't
>into that structured symphony thing.

I don't recall any of those guys singing.

What I found distrubing about some of the lists was the fact that many list
members appear to have not discovered a new artist since the '70s!!!

Speaking of the '70s, I just got a single compilation by The Adverts, one
of the first round of great punk bands, featuring T.V. Smith (an incredibly
underrated songwriter) and the always-lovely Gaye Advert. These guys put
out more songs in a year or so than KB does in a decade!

- Don