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- From: 2767hoffmanj@vms.csd.mu.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative
- Subject: Pearl Jam slag fest.
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 03:54:58 GMT
- Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
- Lines: 45
- Message-ID: <00963F70.583A4820@vms.csd.mu.edu>
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- A point was brought up earlier regarding the ongoing flame/gush battle
- over Pearl Jam...
- The point was something along the lines (from a gusher) that one should
- quit flaming PJ simply cuz they don't like it...its all a matter of taste.
- The slagger replied that one of the shining points of the NET is that one
- can often learn of new music via the posts...and if anyone is going to ask
- about Pearl Jam, he will flame away...
-
- I guess what I want to know is...what difference does it make? If someone
- asks about Pearl Jam and the best reply that people can come up with is:
- "they really suck" or "man, they're the greatest thing in the world,"..
- what did the questioner learn?...nothin'.
-
- I too use the NET to discover some new stuff...sometime ago I asked about
- the Fatima Mansion here (and on R.M.Industrial) and I got a flood of posts
- telling me how WONDERFUL they are...so I went to my local record store and
- gave it a listen...in my opinion (formed after listening to the thing) was
- that they SUCKED..pure and simple...This is of course my opinion and a matter
- of taste...
-
- What ends up happening is a cascade of posts of yea's and nay's over a band..
- but more often then not, no real info was passed along...The slagger also
- pointed out that the NET is here to post opinion....This is true..but what
- good is being done besides chewing up bandwidth by recreating the Rush flame
- war under a different title....
-
- I guess all I am saying is that if you have an opinion..support it..so that
- readers have some sort of context for what you are talking about...You think
- something sux...tell us why...same goes if you really dig a band...why?
- Those bits of information, most often ommitted, are the ones that are most
- helpful...
-
- Please forgive the spelling mistakes above...I can't seem go back and correct
- them with this editor..sorry.
-
- Later. (for the person who questioned this in another post...it is a
- vernacular closing for my letters...generally noted as the short form of
- "I will see you later."...when?...I dunno..so there.you now have the answer.)
-
- Anyway.
-
- Later, all.
-
- -justin.
-