Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic
Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:53:00 EST
From:         gmgettie@THAMA1.APGEA.ARMY.MIL
Subject:      My lonely quest for the ALLMUSIC compilation tape

From: ST402711%BROWNVM.BITNET@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU at INTERNET 12/22/92 11:50P
Subject: re: Epistemelogy 'R Us

>  Whoa!  Gary, don't take this personally, but the difference between
>Poison and Queensryche isn't nearly as great as the difference between
>Beer Jazz and Marsha A Capella.  Or Prokofiev and Madonna.

I know that. It doesn't matter. The wider the variety the better. BTW, I will
argue that the difference between Poison and Napalm Death is comparable to
the difference between Prokofiev and Madonna. Next time you get a chance,
check out Napalm Death, the song "Rise Above" in particular. All the singer
does is grunts and growls.

>Are you
>sure that going from bon jovi for 5 minutes to tesla for 5 minutes is
>the same as going from a 5 minute motorhead to a 100 minute mahler?

Poison and Tesla are similar. However, Poison and Possessed are NOT similar
at all. Why is everyone so scared of a little variety anyway, 'fraid you
might hear something you like?

>  Still, if you want to organize it, it can be your baby.  I think
>Carol got the last one going - you can contact her for the details
>on just how much a drag it is.

Like I said, I can't do it, atleast not right now.

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From: alevin@TOPCAT.BSC.MASS.EDU at INTERNET 12/23/92 12:07AM (3667 bytes:
Subject: Comp Tape & new stuff

>>Have any of *you* heard of Mekong Delta?
>Yeah, it's a nice little stretch of land on the borders of Cambodia and Laos.

I thought the band was named after a river in Vietnam.

>Geez, sorry for going nutso here. There doesn't need to be any rules;
>everybody picks a song and that's it. You *can't possibly* please everybody
>with every song.

>What you fail to realize is that with Metal, most songs are under 5 minutes
>(yes, I know there are some exceptions).

On the contrary, I would say that most metal songs are more than 5 minutes.

>With most of the stuff you'll get
>reccomendations for here will be much longer. If I had to pick one tune I'd
>like to see distributed to every member of this list, it'd be Phish's "Union
>Federal", which happens to be a 25 minute long anything-goes free jam. Now
>someone will probably reccomend a Miles tune. Take "Gondwana", that's 47
>minutes. Do you get my point?

No, I don't get your point. Certainly it doesn't make sense to put a 25 minute
song on a 90 minute tape, but I don't think it would be too difficult for
someone to find a song that isn't quite as long to put on the tape. Adam,
surely through your countless CD splurgefests and hundreds of CDs you can find
a song around 5 minutes long.

So far the 2 arguments I have heard against this tape are:

1) People songs would be too long -----> Lame. Pick one that isn't so long.
2) The variety of music would be too wide. -----> Super Lame. The whole
   point of this tape is to expand some people's musical interests and turn
   them on to something they have not heard before and may like.

*But*, I seem to be alone with my crusade here, so I'll shutup (unless
someone wants to argue some more).

Ta ta for now...

Seeya,                                          gmgettie@thama1.apgea.army.mil
Gary
"It does not matter if you fall down as long as you pick up
 something from the floor while you get up."
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