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- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:51:32 EST
- Sender: Discussions on all forms of Music <ALLMUSIC@AUVM.BITNET>
- From: Chrome-Plated Megaphone of Destiny <alevin@TOPCAT.BSC.MASS.EDU>
- Subject: Art, Language, and the comp tape
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- From: Leonard Watkins <ISTS024%UABDPO.BITNET@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: piss metal
- >I don't really care what an artist does, i object to gov't funding for stuff
- >that is not art....pure and simple Mapplethorpe's work is not art a bottle of
- >piss is not art......it's not art...........L.W.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- In your opinion
-
- Actually Len, have you ever seen the "Piss Christ" picture? I think it's pretty
- cool. The urine was used as a light filter to produce a neat effect.
-
- As for the Mapplethorpe photos...I can pass on those.
-
- From: gmgettie@THAMA1.APGEA.ARMY.MIL
- Subject: My lonely quest for the ALLMUSIC compilation tape
- >>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.
-
- The point is for certain types of music, you aren't going to get a 3 minute
- ditty. Tim's gonna have to dig us up some pocket concertos.
-
- >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.
-
- That isn't the argument. The argument is that with the wide variety of tastes
- that people have here, to please everyone and to be comprehensive, you'll need
- a 10 hour tape.
-
- From: crispen <crispen@EFFTOO.BOEING.COM>
- Subject: Ave atque vale (till 1993)
- >>*SHUDDER*
- >>I actually like some Queensryche and Fates Warning, but don't EVER call them
- >>Progressive. I know progressive, and they ain't it.
- >
- >Well, Adam, the term "Progressive Metal" has been used for at least
- >Queensryche for some time (sorry about my ignorance of Fates Warning).
- >
- >What term would you use to distinguish them from Ratt or Poison? Or
- >don't you think there's a difference worth mentioning?
-
- I'd distinguish Ratt & Poison as pap, er I mean pop metal.
- To tell you the truth I'm not sure what I'd define Queensryche as.
-
- My problem is that I can't see how you would ever use the term "Progressive" to
- refer to Queensryche.
-
- To me, progressive is a mixture of Rock and Classical w/ a bit of Jazz thrown
- in. It's at least 50% keyboard driven, not just your basic electric guitar,
- bass, and drum rock band. You'll often find other instruments included too, such
- as saxophone, flute, or violin (or a mellotron to imitate one of these
- instruments). The music never stays constant, it is always "progressing"
- (get it?). And no, releasing a concept album does not make you a progressive
- band. I think this is why people call Queensryche progressive. Maybe they
- should be called "Concept Metal" Actually, lately theey seem to be more hard
- rock than what I'd consider to be metal, but that's a whole 'nother argument.
-
- Now that I think about it, there's actually a tune by Fate's Warning called "At
- Fate's Hand" that I migh classify as Progressive. It has violin and keyboards
- and is rather twisty, turny.
-
- From: Thumper <watson@HG.ULETH.CA>
- Subject: pure fun
-
- >I wanted to wish anyone whose signing off for the holidays a Merry Christmas
- >and a Happy New Year! And to those die-hards like me who'll be hanging around,
- >let's get together and e-party and make everyone else feel like they missed out
- >on all the fun. OK? Who's gonna be around anyhow?
-
- I'll be here with the yuletide beer.
-
- -Adam
-