From: ray@unisql.UUCP (Ray Shea)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: Top 10 bands of all time
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:33:12 GMT
Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA

In article <cubsfan.721884499@camelot> cubsfan@camelot.bradley.edu (Michael Silverman) writes:
>Bob Marley & the Wailers were excellent...I own Legend (greatest
>hits) and enjoy it immensly, but I do not think they are one of
>the top 10 bands of all time.  

You are hardly qualified to be the judge of that if all you own is _Legend_.
You still haven't explained to me why the band who merely "introduced"
reggae to pop audiences is more deserving of Top 10 status than any of
the bands who actually *created* reggae.  Next you'll be telling me that
Elvis was greater than Muddy Waters and Little Richard and Chuck Berry
and Big Mama Thornton...and...and...and...

>As for your other comment, I hope
>you are not oneof those people who cries "racism!" at every
>opportunity, evven when none exists at all.  

Why, no, what makes you think I am?  Did I mention racism anywhere?  You
attribute some imagined viewpoints to me and then proceed to criticize
me based on your imagination.  I was attacking you for your narrowness;
whether or not you're a racist remains to be seen.

>The reason I chose no
>Black bands in my list is because the list is *my* personal
>opinion

Oh, excuse me.  I read the subject "Top 10 Bands of All Time" and figured
you were going to try to defend your reasons *why* these are the top 10
bands of all time.  Instead, I find out you meant to type "Michael
Silverman's Favorite 10 Bands", an article I probably wouldn't have
even read, since I don't know who you are and could give two shits about
your taste in music.

>, and I haven't heard very much Black music, 

...which again makes you eminently UNqualified to be judging its relative
merit compared to such innovators as, oh, the Police.

>therefore
>(even if it may be better than some of my bands) I didn't choose
>any. Why don't you submit your own list or something?

I did.  You must have missed it.

>I doubt you have heard Rush, 

Oh please.  The horrified Rush fan who in his (limited) world experience
has never actually met a person who didn't immediately swoon at the first
listen to 2112.

>becaus if you did, you would know that for the
>*rock* genre, they are as good as it gets. 

Sorry, that's a matter of opinion; further, it's an opinion which I have not
yet found to be held by anybody with sufficiently broad musical interests
to make their opinions worthwhile (to me, anyway).  How would you compare
Rush to, say, the Velvet Underground, or James Brown, or Pere Ubu, or 
Big Star, or the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, or ZZ Top, or Can, or
Sly & the Family Stone, or Parliament Funkadelic?  And what criteria are
you using in your comparisons?  

>Don't try to compare across
>genre...it can't be done!

You're right, I couldn't possibly decide if the John Coltrane quartet was
as good as Warrant...it can't be done!

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