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- From: feygin@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Alexander Feygin)
- Subject: Re: THE DEFINATIVE TOP TEN LIST
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- Sender: feygin@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (I)
- Reply-To: a-feygin@uiuc.edu (Alexander Feygin)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <kf36ayi00iV3M_2XdO@andrew.cmu.edu> <Mf3P7Cm00WBME9W_0V@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov21.231708.22497@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:58:35 GMT
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- weverett@jarthur.claremont.edu (William M. Everett) writes:
- } In article <Mf3P7Cm00WBME9W_0V@andrew.cmu.edu> msce+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Joseph Swietek) writes:
- } >Top Ten Just Pain Sucky Bands ( above list included )
- } >9: Queen
- } Really now, I like Pink Floyd, but Freddie Mercury is a far superior
- } singer to anyone in that band. Freddie recorded with Montserrat Caballe,
- } a well recognized Opera singer. Do you think anyone from Pink Floyd could
- } pull this off? They couldn't, very few in the rock world could. But Freddie
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- Pink Floyd is music and lyric oriented. Not vocal oriented. Great vocals
- are not essential for their style of music and might actually detract from
- the message.
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- Freddie might be a good singer but he's style is very annoying, to me at
- least, and Queen is certainly one of the most overrated groups--up there
- with Led Zeppelin and U2.
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- Alexander Feygin "This species has amused itself to death"
- a-feygin@uiuc.edu -- Roger Waters
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- The opinions expressed above are those of the author and not CCSO
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