home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!usenet.coe.montana.edu!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!jrs
- From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
- Subject: Re: Bad Songs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.164748.18368@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1k0oelINNro0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1k1ku1INNq5@fido.asd.sgi.com> <1993Jan26.071043.17781@clarinet.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:47:48 GMT
- Lines: 18
-
- In article <1993Jan26.071043.17781@clarinet.com> brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
- >But you don't understand. According to what I have heard, McArthur Park
- >was the result of an attempt to see how insipidly stupid a song could be
- >made into a hit if it had famous people behind it and a good tune.
- >
- >They were successful, but such should be disqualified for a worst song of
- >all time contest, which should pick as a winner a song that was stupid
- >but which the artists involved actually meant seriously.
-
- So it's a sort of musical version of "Naked Came an Ape," huh? Now I
- understand! Thanks for finally revealing one of the great mysteries of
- music (10 to 1, though, that musicologists 100 years from now will
- still be debating about what McArthur Park means).
- --
- John Switzer | 1/21/93 - Clinton fails to follow through on promise
- | to have economic legislation ready the day after the
- Compuserve: 74076,1250 | Inauguration. Programmers rejoice because he gives
- Internet: jrs@netcom.com | them an excuse to further slip their schedules.
-