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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Favorite Groups
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.215021.11972@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <1993Jan24.091528.2336@netcom.com> <1993Jan24.162538.29238@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 21:50:21 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.162538.29238@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.091528.2336@netcom.com> rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:
- >>
- >>In article <1993Jan21.113151.16829@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk writes:
- >
- >>>I'm under 30, and I posted the original quote. Doesn't anyone listen
- >>>to any decent music any more?
- >>
- >> Sure and by the way I am 30. I like, in alphabetical order:
- >
- >[much deleted]
- >
- >>ABBA;
- >>Blondie;
- >>Frankie Goes to Hollywood;
- >>Madonna;
- >>Richard, Cliff;
- >>John Travolta and Olivia Newton John;
- >
- >Obviously not.
- >
- >The question was intended as rhetorical, but let me rephrase it: are
- >there other people born after 1960 who prefer listening to popular
- >music from before 1960?
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- Well, I do have a fondness for Dvorak, J.S. Bach, and a lot of baroque
- harpsichord music--does that count?
-
- Trygve (Who has pretty standard musical tastes--Sisters of Mercy, Donovan,
- Kate Bush, Mannheim Steamroller, Divinyls, Cream, Pink Floyd,
- Tori Amos, the Byrds, Nirvana, Moody Blues, ABBA, Blondie,
- Jane Wiedlin, Rachel Sweet, the Guess Who, Jennifer Warnes,
- Scorpions, CSN, Altered Images, Billy Joel, Yvonne Elliman,
- Joan Jett, Lobo, Alan Parsons', Traffic....)
- --
- How many brewers does it take to change a light bulb?
- One third less than it takes to change a regular bulb.
-