From: ballerup@diku.dk (Per Goetterup)
Newsgroups: rec.music.industrial
Subject: Re: Open letter to Bill Clinton
Date: 5 Nov 92 10:00:26 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

Cannam@borodin.sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam) writes:


>In article <1d7t8vINNhg6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> jaa@po.CWRU.Edu (Joseph A. Ambrose) writes:

>   In a previous article, vijaypai@owlnet.rice.edu (Vijay Sadananda Pai) says:

>   >it would be an ideal opportunity for you, as you could play
>   >sax on "Lightning Man" (_Showtime_), which is perhaps the best song
>   >ever written.

>   it is impossible, in this universe, for the "best song ever" to have
>   been composed by two britpop fruitcakes with a sequencer, who seem never to
>   have read past page 3 in their midi manuals.

Objection!!! - Nitzer Ebb is not pop and very far from britpop! - And their
work with a sequencer has set new standards for sequencer programming. They
definately read the entire manual again and again, and they show in all their
work that they indeed understood it all, and they could now probably write an
addition to all midi manuals about professional sequencer programming.

Nobody, but nobody, has ever used a sequencer so professionally like they did.

>No indeed!  The best song ever written is "Moving To Florida" by
>the Butthole Surfers.

Right. The Butthole Surfers, a band that never got to as much as open the manual
to their guitars, and it sounds thereafter!

>No question about it.

>						Chris

In your (not so humble) mind.

If NE are 'fruitcakes' then BS are MORONS.

Seriously, stop flaming music you don't understand, what obviously is the problem
here. Perhaps this can make you understand how stupid it is!

Butthole Surfers is the best thing that happened to their fans, and so is NE to
their fans. Nobody with a big fancrowd can be all bad, and I'm sure the numbers
are about the same for both bands. Accept it!

Okay, my candidates to the best song ever are:

	Donna Summer / Giorgio Moroder - I Feel Love    [1978, soul/dancepop]
	Skinny Puppy - Assimilate			[1988, industrial]

- they're very far stylewise from each other, but they both feature heavy sequencer
work that really show the true POWER of sequencing.

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