Since when do the KLF still exist? Only for a few fans, enthusiasts, collectors, and balding media commentators. Surely that's something trapped in amber rather than living and roaring in the Jurassic Park of the pop charts? We may swap CDRs and remixes and open ftps servers, but in the face of monumental disinterest from 99% of the populace, it's "bows and arrows against the lightning". Every major re-appreciation of a band ever has involved a re-issued CD or a greatest hits, and without it the KLF (already seen by many who remember them as being appallingly 1980s) will eventually become a tiny footnote in a very, very large book. Oh, and Woolworths is the first, and not the last, place to buy music; certainly when you're young - and growing up in a small town. I haven't bought anything other than blank CDRs from there in years - but then I'm an old man of 29 who can afford to order things off the net or travel to the city. And Scooter? Well, the sheer vitriol reserved for them on this list seems a bit unpleasant. It's music for kids, fair enough, so why bother criticising it when you're a grown up? What about attacking the bland-out nonsense of the likes of Coldplay and Travis instead? There is music directly marketed to adults, and so banal and freakishly lacking in colour and charisma, that to call it "pop music" at all is an insult to forty years of recorded song. There are many, many other things to get angry at rather than a "crap German MC shouting over records at a kids' disco" (which, incidentally, is the very lifeblood of my twelve-year-old pupils, and long may it last). John Not Scots, just skittish. PS - Does anyone remember Tokyo Ghetto Pussy? ;-)
Oh, and Woolworths is the first, and not the last, place to buy music; certainly when you're young - and growing up in a small town. I haven't
i think my first "record purchase"[1] came from coles, but it could just as likely have been woolworths. in most country towns in west.au, there is one or the other. rarely both.
PS - Does anyone remember Tokyo Ghetto Pussy? ;-)
yes. jamnspoon alter ego from memory? was the album better than the (in au) released single? cheers brendan [1] - i think it was KISS "I was made for loving you". i would have been young. not sure if i was at school or not.
Woolies in .au isn't the same as woolies in .uk... .au woolies is tesco (supermarket chain in UK) --- brendan <brendan@sputcorp.com> wrote: > > Oh, and Woolworths is the first, and not the last,
place to buy music;
certainly when you're young - and growing up in a small town. I haven't
i think my first "record purchase"[1] came from coles, but it could just as likely have been woolworths. in most country towns in west.au, there is one or the other. rarely both.
PS - Does anyone remember Tokyo Ghetto Pussy? ;-)
yes. jamnspoon alter ego from memory? was the album better than the (in au) released single?
cheers brendan
[1] - i think it was KISS "I was made for loving you". i would have been young. not sure if i was at school or not.
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Woolies in .au isn't the same as woolies in .uk... .au woolies is tesco (supermarket chain in UK)
never heard of tesco, but woolies i refer to was a supermarket chain also? is it a west.au thing only perhaps? i've noticed at least a couple of similar situations when i moved here to VIC from WA. ie - "GEST" lemonade = "KIRKS" lemonade. Delis = Milkbars. Westpac = Bank of Melbourne. cheers brendan
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 08:16:01AM -0000, John Milne wrote:
And Scooter? Well, the sheer vitriol reserved for them on this list seems a bit unpleasant. It's music for kids, fair enough, so why bother criticising it when you're a grown up? What about attacking the bland-out nonsense of the likes of Coldplay and Travis instead?
Oh, don't worry, I do! :) I've just spared this list my rants regarding those bands. jon np: ils - strange light -- "Alcohol kills more people than Heroin, crack, acid and Cannabis put together. So you'd think that all those drugs together would be legal." - redi
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