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- From: ray@unisql.UUCP (Ray Shea)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
- Subject: Re: Top 10 bands of all time
- Message-ID: <4185@unisql.UUCP>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 19:52:22 GMT
- References: <BxqL8F.47E@acsu.buffalo.edu> <Bxrnv2.Dvx@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- In article <Bxrnv2.Dvx@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> ccamfiel@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Christopher Camfield) writes:
- >Whether or not you believe that The Police were good or not, you cannot
- >deny the fact that they added new musical influences to mainstream music.
- >(ie semi-reggae (? whichever it was) beat), that greatly influenced bands
- >in the early 1980s. IMO, they go right up there tied for #1 with the
- >Beatles.
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- I fail to understand why the Police get Top 10 ranking for merely introducing
- white pop audiences to (fairly watered-down) reggae influences, while the
- people who fucking *invented* reggae are sadly ignored. Where is Bob Marley
- & the Wailers on this list? Where, in fact, are any black artists at all,
- on this list of Top 10 Bands of genres created and influenced, for the
- most part, by black musicians? No Sly & the Family Stone, no Temptations,
- no James Brown, no Parliament/Funkadelic, no Chuck Berry or Fats Domino,
- no *jazz* at all (as if Rush's musicianship could hold a candle to John
- Coltrane's quartet of the early 60's, or anything Thelonious Monk could
- do in his sleep.)
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- grumble,
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- ray
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