From: (null pointer)@symphony.cc.purdue.edu (M a t t h e w N. S h a r p)
Subject: Re: Who needs TOP 40?
Organization: Purdueuniversity
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 04:55:29 GMT

In article <irrelevant> nc313060@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:
>
>	I have a lot on my mind today, music-wise. Like one of my friends 
>told me this weekend that Ministry has just invented a new kind of music.
>Hold onto your hats - it's called Industrial Metal. What is the big deal to
>have to place music in categories INSIDE of categories? Isn't it enough to 
>just say that they are industrial?

Observations:
	Issue : New musical category - semantics, importance of
	        catagorization, lack thereof., freedom of music
	        from catagorization : sufficience of subcategories

	Effectiveness of message : (scale A-Z) P

	Use of language flavoring devices : X


>
>	Don't misunderstand - I love industrial, techno, grunge, but I don't
>think it's necessary to create a smaller group. The people at the college I
>attend don't understand what kind of music I listen to. Most of the time, 
>they look at me like I just landed here from a spaceship! And God forbid
>that they hear any of it. One of my friends asked me to make him a tape (of
>techno music), and after listening to it, he told me that it was "cool, but
>they weren't enough words.". I couldn't believe that he was so TOP 40
>oriented that he couldn't make out the feelings swirling around in the noise
>of techno. I was disappointed.

Observations:
	Issue : Divided-unclear: 1. the community in which she lives
				    is populated by people whom she
				    considers to be unlike herself.
					This indicates a certain
					feeling of alienation.
					The use of the phrase "I couldn't
					believe that he was so TOP 40
					oriented" seems to indicate a 
					feeling of music-perceptive
					superiority.
				  2. the initial sentence seems to indicate
				     a separate point not elaborated on
				     during the remainder of the paragraph:
				     The lack of a necessity for          
				     subcatagories.  No proof or evidence
				     supporting this opinion is offered.

	Effectiveness of message : X

	Use of language flavoring devices : C (exceptionally humorous
					       "spaceship" reference)


>
>	Another person told me that "Thieves" by Ministry wasn't fast 
>enough. Needless to say, he was a heavy metal knothead with the intelligence
>of a pea.

Observations:

	Issue : unclear - possibly the presentation of a separate perspective,
		possibly a derisive comment about "heavy metal knotheads."

	Effectiveness of message : Z (note: "Needless to say" followed
					    by material said to be "Needless
					    to say.")

	Use of flavoring language : G 


>
>	I have decided to keep my musical taste to myself, and let those 
>countless numbers of Debbie Gibson look-alikes drown it the sea of normality
>they have chosen to wade around in.

Observations:

	Issue : Assert superiority, condescension towards "Debbie Gibson
		look-alikes", statement of intent: isolationism concerning
		"musical taste."

	Effectiveness of message : R

	Use of flavoring language : T


>
>
>	I think I'm done bitching now.


Observations:

	Issue : statement of percieved condition of finality

	Effectiveness of message : C

	Use of flavoring language : V



>
>	Oh, by the way, anyone near Pittsburgh,Pa should check out Metropol
>on Thursdays. This week, a DJ named Thrash is coming down from Cleveland
>to throw a Pseudo-rave party. Music starts at 11 p.m..


Observations:

	Issue : advertisement for event

	Effectiveness of message : H

	Use of flavoring language : U


>
>
>As always,
>		"Throw me into a cell....
>		 Swallow your pride,
>		 and lick my mind....."
>			-Ministry
>
>Stephani Nichelle




Exceptionally bored,
Matthew Neill Sharp
matthew@symphony.cc.parka.edu