From: icsu8288@cs.montana.edu (Foster)
Newsgroups: rec.music.industrial
Subject: Re: DEPECHE MODE MURDERS ROUTE 66
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:02:30 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717

In article <m30XiB1w164w@tz.wimsey.bc.ca> dippybir@tz.wimsey.bc.ca (Jeremy Tolsma) writes:
>dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell) writes:
>
>> In <3039@cs.rit.edu> djs6015@cs.rit.edu (a whiner) writes:
>> 
>> >In <4APR199204250849@zeus.tamu.edu> pac9897@zeus.tamu.edu (another whiner) 
>> writes:
>> >>
>> >>Why did Depeche Mode ruin this perfectly good classic?
>> >>I mean, if they don't like guitars and Martin Gore wants to sing like
>> >>an android why doesn't he go and do it on some trite little ballad of
>> >>his own?
>> >>
>> 
>> Is this supposed to be news?  Or are you making this announcement so that
>> everyone knows just how kuul you are?  I'd really like to know the reason,
>> because I'm sure that that your comment was meant to be really relevant to
>> the state of industrial music, but we're all just too feeble to comprehend
>> it.
> 
>Well maybe I can shed some insight in2 y a lot of people hold intense 
>negative feelings 2ward groups such as Depeche Mode, and y they make excuse 
>about hating them like 'They are only in it for cash, they sold out!' or 
>'They are too popular!!'... these criticisms r excuses 4 having the 
>real problem with popular music, which surfaces in criticisms such as 'They 
>are wussy!'  and of course the ultimate explanation of y a popular band 
>sucks:  'Teenage girls worship the band members!'.  These guys flaming 
>Depeche Mode r sick of hearing how good looking the band members r from 
>their girlfriends.  They insist that Depeche Mode posts dont belong in RMI 
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		 AND YOU APPARENTLY

>becuz they r not industrial, which is the only debatable point they have, 
			                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
			      NOTHING DEBATABLE ABOUT THIS, THEY DON'T!

>but their motives 4 wanting Depeche Mode off RMI r clearly jealousy/hate 
>driven, NOT keeping RMI free all the terrible things in the world.  If they 
>actually sat down & thought about Depeche Mode, they probably would come 2 
>the conclusion that it is a good band, which makes some great songs, and 
>that if people want 2 discuss it on RMI, its perfectly A-OKAY, because they 
>would realize that it is GOOD when people get 2 talk about what they WANT 2 
>talk about rather than being told NOT 2 talk about something.
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								SURE, BUT ON ALT.RAVE (WHERE YOU'D GET
								FLAMED TOO) OR ALT.MUSIC.ALTERNATIVE
> 
>u(
>and as for 'please don't make me have 2 create a kill file!'... the only 
>person making u do that is YOU, and if thats what it takes 2 make u feel 
>comfortable with the universe, please make yourself create the killfile.

Enough already with this hairlip thread.  I like DM too, but until they
cover _Assimilate_, let's keep 'em off r.m.i.
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Slade Foster   Montana State Univ.   icsu8288@caesar.cs.montana.edu