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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:57:19 CST
From:         crispen <crispen@EFFTOO.BOEING.COM>
Subject:      Re: M-PERSON, A Cappella, Purple One, DEBBIE!

I think it was _People_ magazine who, reviewing _Sex_ said that,
considering M's taste in clothes, maybe nudity was the way to go.
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Little Inquisitor: I should have told you that one of the cardinal
tenets of SubGenius is that every new minister is obligated to
create his own heresy and schismatic church.

Tell you what I'll do -- instead of talking about it, I'll up and send
the 25 bucks in and report back to you in a month or so about whether
it seems to be worth getting into.

In the meantime, let me recommend _The Book of SubGenius_ and
_Three Fisted Tales of "Bob_ as an introduction.  These people aren't
just quiet grinners at the follies of mankind, but actual raving
lunatics -- or, rather, they rave like lunatics, but you can tell
they aren't, or rather...
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Marsha!!!  Just finished listening to the tapes.  Here's a pre-review:

        Best side: Side 1, tape 2: Variety, variety, variety,
           plus, it has the best song (see below)
        Worst side: Side 2, tape 1 (there's a long run of doo-wop
           or similar diatonic stuff here that might have been
           broken up a little?)
        Best Song: 12.5 Days of Xmas -- no contest
        Worst Song: The one that comes directly before 12.5 days.
        Best Performance: The Bobs on (drat -- brain fart) the
           one with the Bungalow in the jungalow.
        Worst Performance: And So It Goes.  Great intro, wonderful
           song, but TOO FAST!

So, I got one thing to say: more!  Give me more!  ALLMUSICers, this is
a must-get along with Sonia's blues anthology.  Would you please
refresh my memory -- is Pennsylvania 6-5000 from U of PA?  Does anyone
know how to get in touch with their director?  I gotta get sheet music
for that song!
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I guess I'm going to have to break down and make some tapes for you
guys (being the main Stan Kenton-o-phile here).

The reason that I haven't gone into the tape-making business is that
my second cassette deck sucks.  No problem, said I a couple of months
ago, I'll just go get another one like the one I've got (Pioneer's
best non-auto-reverse a couple of years ago, like $150, the best
high-frequency response I've ever heard).

So what do I find?  They don't make mine any more.  Worse than that,
all the cassette decks I've seen have two transports (I could live with
that so long as they don't both suck) and/or auto-reverse (I couldn't
live with that -- it's a short but sure trip to low-fidelity) and
either they sound like they're playing through a bale of cotton, or
they cost $400!!!

So, any cassette tape deck recommendations, gang?
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Jade (aka: pissed),

The following, from the thing the LISTSERV sent you:

>  The  amount of  acknowledgement  you  wish to  receive  from  this list  upon
>completion of a  mailing operation can be  changed by means of  a "SET ALLMUSIC
>option" command,  where "option"  may be  either "ACK"  (mail acknowledgement),
>"MSGACK" (interactive messages only) or "NOACK".

You won't see your own stuff unless you write them as above.  The reason
you haven't heard anything back on it is maybe that we don't know the
answer.
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Jeff Schoby,  I hate to say this out loud in front of such folks as
Adam and Jeremy, but I kinda like Prince, too.  IMHO his songs are
wonderful, his bands have been tight, his arrangements have been
tasteful and creative, and if you can just engage your filter on his
singing (sucks) or his ego (hard to get around), his records aren't bad.

I really believe Prince is a musician, unlike the M-person who seems to
me to be mainly a dancer.

Incidentally, Jeff, that "4 U" business is way too cutesy 4 me.
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Speaking of cute, I've just been accepted on the Debbie Gibson digest.
Report follows.
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Thanks, Hosko, for the Beatles boot list.  Does anyone have anything
similar for the Beach Boys?
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