---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Dan Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Unlike for Tom, Trance is very much a feature of my life, I hear it on >the radio, see coverage of it in the press and get blasts of it pumping >out of people's cars all the time. It fills the clubs and generally >pollutes my musical life these are all very good reasons why you should: not listen to the radio read music press listen to headphones when walking around town not go to clubs that play terrible music im not joking when i say that nothing makes me more irritated than hearing wack music. ill just leave a club if someone is playing garbage, and show up late if the garbage player is on before whomever i wanna see. i just cant submit myself to that. >so I'd actually be very glad if someone came >along to kill it off. Unfortunately, if this were to happen, it would >just be replaced by another genre created with the exclusive aim of >making piles of cash, which is the root of the problem really. this is also very true, of course. this is why im very satisfied with techno and house music's place right now; no one really has any serious pop aspirations. sure, some artists might make "poppy" music but i dont think theyre actually shooting to get mainstream radio play. >Maybe >I'll join Tom and bury my head in the sand after all... im a dance music ostrich. tom ________________________________________________________________ andythepooh.com