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- From: Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.industrial
- Subject: Re: What a joke
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:13:05
- Organization: Konrad Zuse Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
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- In-reply-to: markp@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca's message of Mon, 21 Dec 92 12:09:29 EST
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- In article <iu75VB2w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> markp@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Mark A. Pitcher) writes:
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- [lengthy comment, with which I have no quibble]
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- ... Ogre cannot be compared in the same context as any "pop" singer.
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- Yes, fine. I'm not disagreeing with anything in your argument;
- _except_ that it was used not only to justify Ogre's abilities as a
- vocalist (which the original poster had never disputed), but to try to
- dismiss a claim that his _voice_ was fairly weak, and to dismiss it by
- simply re-asserting the argument about vocalistic abilities.
-
- [he says, getting himself into linguistic knots]
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- It's fine for someone to be a good vocalist despite a complete
- inability to `sing'. What seems unfair is to raise upon a pedestal,
- as a good _singer_ (not a good _vocalist_), someone whose voice is in
- any case half manufactured, with the other half possessing as much
- emotive quality as you like, but little actual _singing_ ability.
- Such as, for example, Ogre. (And indeed a whole truckful other of my
- favourite singers. Don't flame me on that, please.) Whereas Mariah
- Carey's voice is half manufactured, and half chock-full of singing
- ability but completely absent of worthwhile emotion.
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- I don't think we're actually disagreeing on anything fundamental
- here, although I still don't agree with your point.
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- Chris
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