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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:53:00 EST
- Sender: Discussions on all forms of Music <ALLMUSIC@AUVM.BITNET>
- From: gmgettie@THAMA1.APGEA.ARMY.MIL
- Subject: My lonely quest for the ALLMUSIC compilation tape
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- From: ST402711%BROWNVM.BITNET@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU at INTERNET 12/22/92 11:50P
- Subject: re: Epistemelogy 'R Us
-
- > Whoa! Gary, don't take this personally, but the difference between
- >Poison and Queensryche isn't nearly as great as the difference between
- >Beer Jazz and Marsha A Capella. Or Prokofiev and Madonna.
-
- I know that. It doesn't matter. The wider the variety the better. BTW, I will
- argue that the difference between Poison and Napalm Death is comparable to
- the difference between Prokofiev and Madonna. Next time you get a chance,
- check out Napalm Death, the song "Rise Above" in particular. All the singer
- does is grunts and growls.
-
- >Are you
- >sure that going from bon jovi for 5 minutes to tesla for 5 minutes is
- >the same as going from a 5 minute motorhead to a 100 minute mahler?
-
- Poison and Tesla are similar. However, Poison and Possessed are NOT similar
- at all. Why is everyone so scared of a little variety anyway, 'fraid you
- might hear something you like?
-
- > Still, if you want to organize it, it can be your baby. I think
- >Carol got the last one going - you can contact her for the details
- >on just how much a drag it is.
-
- Like I said, I can't do it, atleast not right now.
-
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-
- From: alevin@TOPCAT.BSC.MASS.EDU at INTERNET 12/23/92 12:07AM (3667 bytes:
- Subject: Comp Tape & new stuff
-
- >>Have any of *you* heard of Mekong Delta?
- >Yeah, it's a nice little stretch of land on the borders of Cambodia and Laos.
-
- I thought the band was named after a river in Vietnam.
-
- >Geez, sorry for going nutso here. There doesn't need to be any rules;
- >everybody picks a song and that's it. You *can't possibly* please everybody
- >with every song.
-
- >What you fail to realize is that with Metal, most songs are under 5 minutes
- >(yes, I know there are some exceptions).
-
- On the contrary, I would say that most metal songs are more than 5 minutes.
-
- >With most of the stuff you'll get
- >reccomendations for here will be much longer. If I had to pick one tune I'd
- >like to see distributed to every member of this list, it'd be Phish's "Union
- >Federal", which happens to be a 25 minute long anything-goes free jam. Now
- >someone will probably reccomend a Miles tune. Take "Gondwana", that's 47
- >minutes. Do you get my point?
-
- No, I don't get your point. Certainly it doesn't make sense to put a 25 minute
- song on a 90 minute tape, but I don't think it would be too difficult for
- someone to find a song that isn't quite as long to put on the tape. Adam,
- surely through your countless CD splurgefests and hundreds of CDs you can find
- a song around 5 minutes long.
-
- So far the 2 arguments I have heard against this tape are:
-
- 1) People songs would be too long -----> Lame. Pick one that isn't so long.
- 2) The variety of music would be too wide. -----> Super Lame. The whole
- point of this tape is to expand some people's musical interests and turn
- them on to something they have not heard before and may like.
-
- *But*, I seem to be alone with my crusade here, so I'll shutup (unless
- someone wants to argue some more).
-
- Ta ta for now...
-
- Seeya, gmgettie@thama1.apgea.army.mil
- Gary
- "It does not matter if you fall down as long as you pick up
- something from the floor while you get up."
-