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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:04:40 CST
From:         crispen <crispen@EFFTOO.BOEING.COM>
Subject:      Everybody was fascinating yesterday

After I signed off yesterday ALLMUSIC sure got good.  Hmmmmm...

Has anybody taken the time to thank Ken Koester for his "The Day
the Music Died" posts?  I find them very appealing -- at a dead
minimum they show a way out of the "pop music isn't good anymore"
syndrome (which as we've seen here can be a genuine agony for people).
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MCINTYRE%MSUPA.BITNET@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU sez:

>Well, the Runaways were a manufactured band ala the Monkees, so the real
>wonder is how they stayed together as long as they did.

That's a real shocker!  At least Peter Tork and Mickey Dolenz didn't
last as long as Lita Ford and Joan Jett did (or have I got *that*
wrong, too).

Paul Heroy <HEROY%LSUVM.BITNET@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU> corrected me on
my assumption that Heart broke up -- I just hadn't heard anything
from them lately.

Good Lord!  Prince wrote "Manic Monday"?  That guy is altogether
too good.
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mjferzig@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU asks why alcohol is such a big factor in
the planning for her law school party and then asks for a band to
play at it.  It sounds like you're at least going to be around to
attend the formal, which is great news!  I assume that the finals
weren't fatal.  Way to go, Marsha!
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Michael <EVK102@URIACC.URI.EDU> asks about CD sound.

I almost hate to respond because of the religious wars.  I read a
book by a vinyl bigot who seriously suggested that novices at the
audio game sink their life savings into a turntable and LPs as the
heart of their first stereo systems.  This book was published in
1991!

Here's my $0.02 anyway.  CDs last longer than LPs.  You're at least
1000 times likelier to find a "perfect" surface on a CD than on an
LP.  This is from actual measurement -- I own a significant fraction
of 1K LPs, and *never* found one that didn't have annoying pops
when played the first time.  They sound better than prerecorded
cassette tapes (the other popular relatively long-lasting medium).
I personally find that the alleged coldness of CDs varies inversely
as the price of the CD player.  And, bottom line, I'd rather listen
to CDs' alleged faults than to the missing high end of cassettes or
the surface noise of LPs.

Oh, yeah.  It's just as easy to make a lousy sounding record on CD
as it is on any other medium.  Easier.
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Scott Hammer <SCOTH@WMVM1.CC.WM.EDU>, who I previously took to be a
grungemeister names "I'll Be Home For Christmas" as his #2 fave.

Good for you, Scott.  One of my faves, too.  I even wrote an arrangement
of it for our church choir.  I especially like the part in the second
chorus when the basses scream "Kill the elves!" ;-) As a parent of an
Alabama student, I am pleased to report that Auburn is singing "I'll
be home for Christmas".
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Thumper <watson@HG.ULETH.CA> sez:

>I'm not sure if there are any Joni Mitchell fans out here in Allmusicland or
>not... I'm hoping a couple of old farts may find this of minimal interest. :)

One old fart reporting for duty, ma'am.  Thanks for the tip.  I was a
stone fan up to about _Shadows And Light_ but then fell away.  I have
a couple of the newer ones (_Chalk Mark_ and _Dog_) and even though
IMHO they're only OK, they're still Joni Mitchell!  Thanks for the tip.
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Marco asks:

>        I'll leave you all with a kuzmic question: I got "Automatic For The
>People" yesterday. I find it good -- wouldn't die for it, but I like it --;
>but only if it comes through my loudspeakers. I can't stand it in headphones!
>Why, in your opinion? 8-)

Hah!  You don't know the half of it.  So far I've listened to Dick
Metcalf's tape I'm supposed to review on my car stereo, and I still have
to listen to it on my home stereo with headphones and on speakers.
I listened to your CD at home both ways, too (sorry, no car CD player).

How's about (this is way too simple, I think) speakers move more air
so they're a trifle muddier, but have more powerful low and mid
frequencies.  Headphones move less air and are clearer, but don't
have as much bottom.  Hide it with your headphone/speaker design as
much as you like, inertia is inertia.
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Sonia (who has had too much Xmas spirit) sez:

>Sturdy maidens in long braids and leather jackets gallumphing up and down the
>polka hall.

>Sonia "Deck the Polka Hall With Dolls of Folly"

Or possibly (this was allegedly on a greeting card I searched for
unsuccessfully last year): Wreck the Malls with Cows on Harleys"
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Has anyone heard this: Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" with lyrics changed
to "I am Santa Claus"?  Artist?  Title?  Label?
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