Yes I wish I could read Jake's piece too. Can someone respost this in
plain mail form so all of us can get a look? Thanks...
--jooonyah
Junior says:
In my mind, it was always the Byrd's version of "The Christian Life."
I couldn't understand it any other way than as an ironic gesture at
the time
Why do you say that? And do you still think so?
Dina
Considering R. McG. ended up doing 700 Club commercials for Pat
Robertson I now wonder if there was ever any irony in it.
jb
Considering R. McG. ended up doing 700 Club commercials for Pat
Robertson I now wonder if there was ever any irony in it.
jb
Well, the ironies really pile on here. The one who was taking the song
reasonably seriously at THAT time was almost surely future drug casualty
Gram Parsons, who brought
Carl starts a thread:
I also have some thread-sparking questions (what was the first known
instance of the half-ironic cover - is he right in naming the 'Mats's
Kiss cover as Patient Zero - and also how to relate this web of
analysis to the various levels of irony
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Ph. Barnard wrote:
Carl starts a thread:
what was the first known
instance of the half-ironic cover
In my mind, it was always the Byrd's version of "The Christian Life."
I couldn't understand it any other way than as an ironic gesture at
the
