[bomp] Re: More thoughts on the new crop

[Don <quickone@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 08:51  AM, bomp-digest wrote:

> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 11:49:13 -0400
> From: blairb@mac.com
> Subject: Re: [bomp] Re: More thoughts on the new crop
>

>>>   Passion?
>>
>> Ever see The Vines play?
>     No.  In fact, I haven't heard every song they do, either.  I've only
> heard a few and I *didn't* like those.  But I have to ask, do you go 
> out and
> see every band that comes to town? Do you listen to every song by a 
> band to
> figure out if you like them? How much time does someone have to put in
> before they're allowed to state they don't like a band?  Remember, most
> people in the world at large judge a band by the songs they hear on the
> radio.  The radio, in turn, might play a song or two off a record.  
> (More if
> they're doing really well, but only once the last heavily promoted one 
> has
> run its  course.  Example, I've heard K-Rock in NYC start to play "Hotel
> Yorba" and "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" from _White Blood Cells_.)

No. No. Depends.

Let me tell you a little story about a guy who heard all the hype about 
Elvis Costello when he first hit the record racks. The guy only heard 
Watching The Detectives and Allison, and dismissed the strangely named 
fellow. When the second album came out, it included a free single. 
Hearing Neat, Neat, Neat and Stranger In The House, he decided that the 
guy with the funny glasses was simply not worth listening to. However, 
when Mick Jones of The Clash played lead guitar on Big Tears, the young 
man was forced to take another listen. He heard something in The Other 
Elvis that he hadn't heard before. A listen to the rest of This Year's 
Model confirmed that he had been wrong about the guy named after 
Abbott's partner. He became a huge EC fan and lived happily ever after. 
That young man was me...and now you know the rest of the story.

- Don

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