From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V4 #162 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Monday, August 9 1999 Volume 04 : Number 162 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Animal Farm [jp ] Re: Animal Farm ["Ashoke S. Talukdar" ] Re: Just wondering? [Robin ] Re: Watch out, a newbie ["Brian Cundieff" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 09:18:17 -0400 From: jp Subject: Re: Animal Farm At 09:25 AM 8/6/99 CDT, Meg wrote: > > >Ashoke, I nominate you Chief Whip. Let's go shopping for your supplies! >;-) > Do we want to see this? Maybe it should have a rating. un abrazo, juan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 14:12:33 -0400 From: "Ashoke S. Talukdar" Subject: Re: Animal Farm JP wonders: > >At 09:25 AM 8/6/99 CDT, Meg wrote: >> >> >>Ashoke, I nominate you Chief Whip. Let's go shopping for your supplies! >>;-) >> >Do we want to see this? Maybe it should have a rating. > Sure. "Y", for Yes sir! :-) Ashoke. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 23:50:35 -0500 From: Robin Subject: Re: Just wondering? I had a laugh too - got the mental picture too!! Great description Leslie. :D Robin Mike Nice wrote: > > In <19990806134201.25776.rocketmail@web901.mail.yahoo.com>, on 08/06/99 at > 06:42 AM, > Leslie Brown said: > > > screeching along to Basia on > >Broadway. Bliss! > > >The old guys in Beemers really dig it, too. > > I almost died laughing at this mental picture!!-) > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Mike Nice > ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 12:01:23 +0900 From: "Brian Cundieff" Subject: Re: Watch out, a newbie From: Leslie Brown Date: Friday, August 06, 1999 11:00 PM >Sorry, but I remember a time when they were a refuge >for all the weird music nobody knew what to do with >(of course, stuff I loved, being weird and all). Now, >I can't deal with the format, unless I want to sleep >for, say, 14 hours. I finally gave up on my city's "contemporary jazz" station when most of the artists they played were clearly classified as top 40 pop or R&B artists. It's like, at least give us the *illusion* that you're something different. When I came to Japan, I left the bulk of my CD collection wih a friend who used to listen to that same station. She can't anymore, though, because listening to my CDs has made her see just how bad her favorite radio station has become. >One thing they forgot, though: six-figure >folks have taste. Now their share is dropping, and the >Arbitrons are beginning to suck. When a radio station changes its format to be just like half a dozen other (already successful) stations in the same market, why should anyone bother to listen? >Big warnig sign (to me, in retrospect) was when the >stations barely acknowledged TSI in 1994. I remember getting in my car to go to school one morning and hearing the DJ make the announcement about the new album and play "Yearning." Once. After that, for the next two or three years that I listened to "The Oasis," everytime they said they were going to play Basia, I kept thinking, "Maybe it'll be TSI!" But it was always "Cruising for Bruising" or "Time and Tide." Needless to say, Basia on Broadway never got played either. >Personally, when I can turn on the radio and not hear >50 Jeff Lorber and Paul Brown productions in a row, >indistinguishable (with all due respect to Peter >White, but come on!), then I'll feel a little better. I wish they'd let the DJs program their own music. We'd get better variety. Of course, this assumes the stations are capable of hiring people with taste. >My opinion: the next album will blow up if for no >reason other than the people are hungry for something >with heart, with spirit, with actual changes and >vocals that serve a purpose other than repeating song >titles ad nauseam! I hope that's true of the general public. It certainly is for most of us! - -Brian* ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V4 #162 ***************************