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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:25:32 CST
From:         crispen <crispen@EIGHT-BALL.BOEING.COM>
Subject:      Re: Who Done it..?

> From: Leonard Watkins <ISTS024%UABDPO.BITNET@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU>
> Subject:      Who Done it..?

> Crossing the highway, late last night
> shoulda looked left, shoulda looked right
> didn't see the station-wagon car
> skunk got squashed, and there you are
> ....etc
>
> Who did it and what was it called, I saw a CD by this fellow yesterday and
> that made me recall this song. BTW Richard Thompson plays on the CD...L.W.

Head on to the chorus:

Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinking to high heaven

Wanna guess the title? ;-)

Was this Ray Stevens?

> From: Robert Garret Gruhn <1418@EF.GC.MARICOPA.EDU>
> Subject:      Music diversity

> I mostly listen to what people deem
> "Alternative" (i.e. Smiths, Concrete Blonde, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys,
> etc...

To which ROTCOD ZZAJ grinches:

>What people deem them "Alternative."  Tell us WHAT that means.

Well, Dick, how about record store personnel, DJs, musicians?
Not much cause for flaming, as far as I know.  If you're trying to say
that there are some things that are way farther out than "alternative"
I'm certainly with you.  In fact a (so far as I know never-used)
definition on GRUNGE-L of "alternateen" is pejorative.

> The reason for my post is this.  Do you think that the genre refered to as
> Alternative is taking over the mainstream?  I know many people who find
> every group that makes it to mainstream a "sell-out".  I'd just like to
> hear your opinions as to this.  Thanks.

No.  I think the music "marketplace" is fragmenting and there isn't any
mainstream any more.  This is partly the fault of radio station formats
which are more geared toward demographics than toward an individual
Program Director's taste, and partly the result of the wide diversity
of popular music.

However, I find myself incapable of the self-absorption that seems to
be necessary to fully appreciate the Cure.  Phony, but highly probable
quote from Robert (Bubba) Smith: "Success is quite lovely, you know.
It makes me think of death."

> From: TBUCK%KNOX.BITNET@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
> Subject:      The Prisoner (Herbie Hancock)

> My question is this: Has anybody encountered a record label that they feel is
> nearly perfect in their artistic output? I know that somebody on this list
> feels this way about Enigma. (At least I think it was Enigma.) Does anybody
> (hey Beer!) feel the same way about Bluenote in the 50's and 60's?

Sub Pop for me (assuming you're talking about wheat/chaff, not overall
quality output per year, in which case Sony is probably a safer, if
duller, choice).

Yah-hoooo!  Just listened again to Bernstein's _Candide_ (1989 revision
with Adolf Green as Pangloss, June Anderson as Cunegonde).  What a
simply wonderful piece (show? opera? operetta?)!

OK, *real* ignorant question here -- who wrote the music for _A Funny
Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum_?  Was is Sondheim, or did he
just do the lyrics?  Did anyone but me notice the echoes of _Candide_
(especially "The Best of All Possible Worlds") in _Funny Thing_?
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| Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen        | Music should not be held responsible |
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