Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic
Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:07:18 EST
From:         Chrome-Plated Megaphone of Destiny <alevin@TOPCAT.BSC.MASS.EDU>
Subject:      Comp Tape & new stuff

From: Leonard Watkins <ISTS024%UABDPO.BITNET@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU>
Subject: Re: ALLMUSIC compilation tape
>Let's see the heavy metal tape was $4 .....hm...hm.....Does that mean they
>pay you $4 to listen to it or do you pay them $4 to listen to it...............
>either way you got ripped off...(just some lame humor).....:-)..L.W.

Lenny, I absolutely agree with you (about the lame humour, that is).

From: "Gary M. Gettier" <gmgettie@THAMA1.APGEA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: re: Epistemelogy 'R Us
>Easier smeasier. What's that got to do with the price of [insert your favorite
>thing 'in' your favorite place, here]? The metal list is not much different
>than the ALLMUSIC list. With both you have a bunch of people that like
>different types of music. There are many types of heavy metal. You got
>Progressive (Fates Warning, Queensryche)

*SHUDDER*
I actually like some Queensryche and Fates Warning, but don't EVER call them
Progressive. I know progressive, and they ain't it.


>, Thrash (Pantera, Metallica,
>Megadeth), Industrial (Ministry), Death (Entombed, Possessed, Napalm Death),
>Black (Venom, Celtic Frost), Pop [aka poseur glam crap] (Poison,
>Warrant, Bon Jovi, ad nauseam), and then there's Hard Rock (Trouble, Tesla,
>Great White) etc.

>It's not much different with ALLMUSIC. You have Country, Jazz, Rock, Reggae,
>New Age, etc. (Am I commiting a fallacy here by assuming that what is true
>for the specific is true for the more general?) I don't like any Country
>music I have heard. I want someone to turn me on to something I do like.
>I *never* thought I would like anything by Celtic Frost. I have never even
>heard of Mekong Delta (I have no idea what metal classification to put them
>under). Have any of *you* heard of Mekong Delta?

Yeah, it's a nice little stretch of land on the borders of Cambodia and Laos.

>Well, you'll hear about them
>in a few weeks after I receive the CD by them I had to order specially from
>Germany.

>I want to hear your favorite Henry Cow tune. I want to hear "n.n."'s favorite
>Holdsworth tune. I want to hear cmv's favorite Sharrock tune. [I think] I
>want to hear Leonard's favorite Blues track. I want to hear Carol's
>favorite tune to give head by. I want to hear Marsha's favorite a cappella
>song. etc. etc. etc. Oops, don't forget Bob Crispen's favorite Enya tune.

Shit, you forgot the Rev's fav Debbie Gibson tune. He's gonna be pissed.

>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). 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?

-Adam
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