From: ajw@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.j.whitman)
Subject: Re: Ray Shea Goes Ballistic (was Re: Top 10 bands of all time)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:30:05 GMT

In article <falcon.722189191@camelot> falcon@camelot.bradley.edu (D. Nathan Hood) writes:

>ok... so you are telling us that Ray's top ten groups of all time are the
>_real_ top ten??? i beg to differ...  all that ray is telling us is who he
>_thinks_ are the top ten bands ever to have existed...  

i know what you mean guy ... these peopel like ray that claim to know 
eveyrthing never even tell us _how_ they get thier list.  like its
actually subjective or something and they have this algarhythm to 
figure it out.  yah right...

>Now then granted i
>haven't heard of alot of the bands on his list... i don't remember his list
>exactly but i think velvet underground and can were on it.... who??? that
>is my question... if they are so great then why haven't most people i know
>heard of them... 

exactly.  sometimes i think peopel on this bboard want to impress peopel
with whatever obscure bands they can think of... my tastes range from
rush to queen to floyd to yes to zeplin, but you don't see *me* spouting
off about obscure msuic.  face it, how many domed stadiums did can play
in?  how many grammys did velvent underground win?  see what i mean?

>(don't flame me yet...)   now you are going to say
>probably that _i_ have narrow musical tastes becausei haven't heard of
>them... hardly, i could give you a listing of the bands that i listen to
>and like but it isn't worth the bandwidth just to prove a point...  back to
>my point here... Ray's list is no more valid to me than Mike's... they are
>both perceptions... mine happen to be different as does every person who
>reads this post... so a top ten bands of all time can only express opinions
>there is no way that it can be factual...  

right.  this is america, dammit (i know some peopel here are not from
america, but most of us are, so i think i can say that this is america.
i'm in america anyway).  my list is as valid as silverman's which is 
as valid as rays because this is a democracy and we are one nation
and different strokes (great show, by the way) for different folks.
i am me and you are you and we are all together...  and that's what
makes it so beautiful.

>now then you were yapping at Mr.
>Silverman for presenting his list as a fact... what is wrong with that... i
>see nothing... (and no i am not just defending a fellow bradleyite) if he
>feels that they are the top ten bands of all time then to him it is a fact
>that they are...  

i know this dude named bradley.  great guy.  this guy (another guy -
paul, not bradley) i know beleaves that alien beings on alfa
sentori (sp?) are sending him messages on his fax machine.  he
feels this very strongly and i guess its a fact.  who am i to
disagree with such deep emoshions you know?

>Ray may be better versed (no pun intended) in music, but
>i think that he is no more able to say the top 10 bands of all time than
>say a 10 year old who has only heard whatever disney put out...  (no this
>is not a flame just stating an opinion of mine (deal with it))... 

i know this four year old kid (max) who thinks raffy (sp?) puts out
some incredible jams.  hes just as quallifide (no pun intended) to state 
his opion as ray.  i think peopel who think other peopels opions
are stupider than thier own are pretty stupid and immatoor.  so i
agree with you.  that's just my opion too.  deal with it.

>all that
>anyone can express their opinions and this is the place to do it... but if
>people are going to be flamed for doing so, then the use of the net will
>decrease greatly... and then you guys would be out of people to flame...
>now wouldn't that be a shame...

i hate it when peopel flame one another and each other... i would hate
the use of this bboard to decrease though... face it.  some peopel
cant deal with the fact that were all equals and brothers and 
sisters here.  they have to make fun of others.  its thier loss if
you ask me.  

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