Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic
Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:29:09 EST
From:         "Michael H. Bloom" <MHB@MITVMA.BITNET>
Subject:      Cheap shots on Friday

From:         BLAIDA@MOREKYPR.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Tough crowd

> Hi all..
>    Well.. another newbie here... Anyway.. this is my first post so
> remeber that NETIGUETTE Balogna and don't cut me any slack... Okay kids..
> for my first post I would like to ask a question...
> And that question is...
>
> Who put the Bomp in the Bomp-she-bomp-she-bomp???

Now isn't that special?

Your rama-lama-ding-dong needs more RAM, dude.

From:         HLC2@PSUADMIN.BITNET
Subject:      Newbie slack (Ken)

> I'm the youngest of six. Lay it on me. ;-)

> Heather

Indeed. One lump or two?

From:         BLAIDA@MOREKYPR.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Another 'Who recorded this song' question

> They aren't on the same level as Ozzy Osbourne (god) or AC-DC... But
> the have a some pretty awesom songs.. Well.. Maybe not awesome.. more
> like OKAY... What the hell..
>  They Suck...

That's what I like, standing up for your opinions.

> 666, The Number of the Beast..

I'm told some parody band once put out a record called _668, The Neighbor
of the Beast_. Has anyone ever seen this, or is it an urban legend?

From:         canderso@CLN.ETC.BC.CA
Subject:      Re: What did ya listen to

> All week I have been having troubles falling asleep and last night I put on
> The Immaculate Collection by Madonna and I had no problem falling asleep.
> There is just something about her that calms me down at night but during
> the day it gives me a burst of energy.

Pictures of Lily made my life so wonderful, Pictures of Lily helped me sleep
at night :-)

From:         Tim Johnson <ST402711@BROWNVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Boners for Bono

> (An interesting twist, though, on most MTV shlock.  Selling
> sex appeal through music instead of the reverse.)

That was the way it used to be before video, I thought. Frank Sinatra was a
weird bony Italian guy until he opened his mouth. Elvis was considered a fag
by the crowd around Sun Studios until he started to sing. Nancy didn't go for
Sid because of his looks.

From:         Leonard Watkins <ISTS024@UABDPO.BITNET>
Subject:      LW listened to PG

> I borrowed a co-workers copy of PG's Passion and gave it a ride at lunch
> and i kinda liked it and i'm gonna check out some more of PG's stuff, I
> doubt his other stuff is like Passion , but i'll know soon. BTW i liked it
> well enuff to dub me a copy..(but don't tell the copyright cops)..L.W.

Way to go Len! That's actually the hard stuff, especially around "Zaar."
If you like that, you may well find his pop songs way too tame-- _US_ is
closer to that than his earlier records. See, it really is human, feeling
music, despite that it uses all those machines!

> Do you sometimes feel guilty when you copy something, like your ripping off
> the artists, keeping them from some of their royalties. If someone was copying
> your stuff without paying for it, would it bother you. To be honest it kinda
> bothers me sometimes, especially artists that need support. How do you feel.?

Uh, yeah, here's an area where my ethics are a little more situational than
I like to think. I rip off a fair amount of music. I could probably come up
with a Top Ten list of plausible excuses:

10) It's out of print and I'll never find it
 9) The artist won't get the money; the label will
 8) As above, but say "publisher"
 7) As above, but say "distributor"
 6) As above, but say "Michael Jackson"
 5) That company never pays their royalties anyway
 4) It was a "limited edition" record, and I'm not a collector
 3) I don't know where to buy imports any more
 2) That record company sues real artists like Negativland

And the number one excuse for ripping off recording artists:

Hey, I'm a famous rock critic! They shoulda sent it to me free!

All that said, I generally try to benefit the artist. I'm likeliest to pay
actual money for recorded product when I see the artist in concert and (s)he
has it right there to sell. (I acquired the Richard Sinclair CD by swapping
him a copy of the Judas and Natasha Experiments CD. He actually liked us!)
The coolest thing about the music business is that you can consider yourself
a patron of the arts: for the price of a CD, you can be Cosimo di Medici!

Also, I kinda consider it an investment. I tape Richard Thompson or Henry Cow
to send to other list members. These list members get converted and run right
out and buy whole records by the artists, thereby generating more royalties
than the artist could have gotten out of me for a couple of songs.

If you want to take a hard line about it, then I'm a thief. Which doesn't
sit real well. It's something I usually sweep under the ethical rug. Maybe
that's why I didn't get any swell records for Christmas :-/

And I certainly want to get paid for *my* recordings! (If you would like to
be a patron of the arts, send me private E-mail :-)

From:         Ken Koester <MAINT2@ERS.BITNET>
Subject:      Microbrew or bust

> Oh, all right:  OMC:
> "In Muenchen staedt ein Hofbrauhaus,
> Ein, zwei, szgufa"

You got that wrong, it's "Ein, zwei, sfiga!"

From:         Thumper <watson@HG.ULETH.CA>
Subject:      RE: MTV (Rev. Dave)

> ...   But, the buffalo video ranks up there as one of my favorites of all
> time.  The slow motion scenes of stampeding buffalos heading off cliffs is
> really striking.

Yeah, I like buffalo footage too :-)

There's a parody Christmas record called _The Dark Side of the Xmas Tree_,
preposterous Spike Jones-esque versions of some of the most overplayed Xmas
music, plus a terrific Pink Floyd parody cover. There's a cut on it titled
"O Wooly Town of Buffalehem" :-)

> Another fave video of mine is Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly" with all of it's
> mystical native imagery...

Now that was a stellar video.

But what I'd like to see is some of the film they had to accompany the _Wish
You Were Here_ tour. They ran these amazing animation sequences, where this
faceless Everyman figure would do stuff like fly off into space and shatter,
or walk through a dust storm while whirling sand gradually eroded his body--
all these maximally creepy images of the dissolution of the protagonist's
personality... did anybody else see this show?

I was hoping they'd become a better band without Roger Waters' crybaby vibe,
and _Momentary Lapse of Reason_ showed some real promise, but jeez, they're
even slower without him than with him... and the latest Waters isn't too bad.

> Oh shit... they've come to take my GARGRA away...

Oh yeah? Are you getting my mail?
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