On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, William F. Silvers wrote:
> Aw Jerry, c'mon. If we pop-geeks can't close ranks we'll go the way of the
> dinosaur. <g>
I think many folks consider the entire powerpop genre to be as quaint a
creature as the alt-country genre. Interesting, but insignificant.
We are all dinosaurs to the masses and that's perhaps, a glue that keeps
Internet collectives like ours so strong.
> > sonic dissonance (along, with the heinous masturbation reference of the
> > title) to be damn near a betrayal of everything I thought the band was
> "heinous"? Shoot, everybody does it Jerry. <g>
Aww hell....of course, but I abhor sophomoric reference and humor
about it w.r.t song titles, material, album titles, etc......
> > That record basically, made me lose a lot of faith in The Posies. Faith,
> > I never ever fully recovered.
> You and many other people I've heard from, as I said.
I think when you hear something and think...'This is damn near
perfection!", you get somewhat irritated when either the band moves away
from that sound or verbally distances themselves from the effort.
To use a recent example for many P2'ers, Wilco.....Q.E.D.
> > Funny, we were just talking about this
> > very same subject on the Audities poplist but we could discuss it
> > philosophically.
>
> And we can't?
Darn straight we can.....
> Exactly. But we agree plenty too, and it's fun speaking the language.
> I know I broke off our engagement Jerry, but can't we still be friends? <g>
Sure we can Bill...... Hey Bill, that David Cantwell sure has some strong
pop leanings as well. Don't we get a "taoster oven" or some such like
for every convert? <g>
JC
