From: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org (angry-psychos-digest) To: angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Subject: angry-psychos-digest V6 #60 Reply-To: angry-psychos@smoe.org Sender: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "angry-psychos-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. angry-psychos-digest Tuesday, February 13 2001 Volume 06 : Number 060 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: poe chat and publicity [KoriG@aol.com] Using NPR [Edie Sedgewick ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:54:29 EST From: KoriG@aol.com Subject: Re: poe chat and publicity In a message dated 2/13/01 12:38:49 AM, BluesyBear@aol.com writes: >NO SHIT..i work in a record store and when my main manager isn't there >i put >on haunted ALLLL the time... as a matter of fact tonight I was playing >hello >but was told my one of my managers the lyrics were offensive.. >But yes...it's essential to do that if possible because one or two have >asked >who was playing... And tell me that lyrics that a large population, for whatever various reasons, are NOT getting in-store play even though they are the big sellers. Puhleeze. It's just an excuse. If your manager doesn't like Poe's stuff, it's completely their right, (even if it's wrong. : ) If they find, for example, "Not a Virgin" to be inappropriate for blasting thru a mall, I can see that point very well too. (I can understand the "No four-letter words" Policy as long as it is consistently and fairly enforced.) I just hate it when people hide behind supposedly "professional" excuses as a means to jsut let their opinions rule. I was working in radio programming at the time Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You". Sure, we were sick of it within a day of its release, but we played it course. I mean we PLAYED it. Like, every 15 minutes it seemed, at least. The phones were completely burning for it. The excuse, "But we just played it ten minutes ago" doesn't mean shit to someone who just got in their car after 8 hours at the office with NO music all day or only muzak. And though yes, there are people out there who may have been tuned in for an extended period of time, the majority have not, and and of course, radio needs to appeal to the majority to ulfill their function. But retail should not operate this way. Retail wants to generate sales, but they need not sell JUST the hits. They get their money whatever is purchased. If you go into a music store and hear, for example, the Beatles "1" playing, the way I see it, this isn't going to do anything to affect the likeliness of you buying the CD. By the time it has become a hit, (and the point that this particular CD was a hit out of the gates isn't important,) you've already decided whether or not you wish to buy it, or you are already on the way in there to get it, or it's settled that you just aren't interested, and may be a bit turned off to hear what you are already trying to avoid on the radio and MTV. (OK, the Beatles example doesn't work here, so throw in Britney or a boy band or something, and you will get the picture.) Yes, playing hits in-store can do a lot for keeping the people IN the store and shopping longer, but there must be some moderation. The music store I USED to love going to exclusiely got a new manager a couple of years back, and though I do occasionally try to drop by it from time to time these days, I just can't hang in the store like I used to. The new manager LOVES club/dance music, and personally, I tend to hate everything in that genre, but that isn't just me. The part of town this store is in an area of town where the general pop. prefers pop, pop/rock, and rock or indie rock, and he stocks this store like it's the dance music mecca of the town, even though they are three other stores that COMPLETELY had and still have that market covered, and are location in the part of town where it is most popular, and it has been proven for quite some time that dance/club music enthusiasts would rather make the trip to those stores, no matter how far they may be from it. (And one of those three stores is a sister store to said former store.) Ugh, I'll shut up now. It's not only seems quite unfair, but extremely impractical and backwards. KORi ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:55:11 -0800 (PST) From: Edie Sedgewick Subject: Using NPR Guys, You can argue about religion, vegetarianism, homosexuality, chat rooms, T-shirts, silly pop groups, French situationalism, Xeno, or whatever you like till the cows come home; this was specifically set up as a list in which whatever you like can be discussed. But I must take exception to some of you mocking the use of NPR. For I daresay the majority of the APs, these sorts of discussions are not what we bargained for when we joined up. NPR allows the filter of such extraneous noise. It is ironic that lately, I actually pay attention to things posted with NPR on them, because that means the person who posted it is at least polite and considerate enough to take that simple step. The person who posted about her Tori Amos collection going up on e-bay is a good recent example of what I would say is flawless netiquette. They knew people on this list would be interested (it wasn't completely out of the blue), so they put up a simple message with NPR in the subject and left it at that. Please try to think for just a moment before posting, and review whether or not what you are putting up is Poe Related or not. It will make life better for us all. Taxi Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of angry-psychos-digest V6 #60 **********************************