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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:23:39 EST
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- From: a memory engraved upon your soul <REWOICC@ERENJ.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Alternative..?
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:15:31 CST from <ISTS024@UABDPO>
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- on the other hand, "alternative" has also come to mean that collection of
- college rock characterized by whatever it is that the college music journal
- and 120 minutes has decided to be deemed "alternative" for that month.
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- once upon a time, i would scream, "how do you define that?!?" in faces of
- all who say they listen to alternative music. now though, i nod blindly,
- understand what they are talking about and continue to let them suffer
- in their delusions.
-
- it's just another label. misapplied, perhaps, but a label nonetheless. on
- the average, everyone knows what people mean by it, so why argue whether
- or not it really means something?
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- woj
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