From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V2 #19 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Wednesday, January 20 1999 Volume 02 : Number 019 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: idealcopy-digest V2 #18 ["charles / wmo" ] Re: catagorize me, please (and other stuff) ["Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: idealcopy-digest V2 #18 >However, Wire never sold many records for a number of reasons, be it a >sometimes hostile mainstream press, a complete lack of interest in >playing old or even current tracks, a refusal to knuckle under to the >mainstream of the time (instead choosing to innovate), texts about all >sorts of stuff rather than just going down the pub, etc. Lest us not forget that they were also a "thinking man's band" - something that is never commercially viable. c ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:51:34 -0000 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: catagorize me, please (and other stuff) Uri says: >>I know this is all> subjective but it is difficult to isolate a late >period Wire/Wir song >> that to use a horrible US phrase 'kicks ass' the way that the guitar >> oriented variants did. Holy cow! "Ahead," "Feed Me," "'A Serious of Snakes,'" "The Boiling Boy," "It's a Boy" (the amazing guitar sound during the crescendo pretty much defines "kick ass" for me), "Stampede," "Torch It"... later, listowner Miles - --- /====================================================================\ | Miles Goosens outdoorminer@mindspring.com | | http://www.rsteviemoore.com outdoorminer@zdnetmail.com | | http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer | | | | "Why everything has to get in the way all the time I don't know." | | -- Janet Ingraham Dwyer | \====================================================================/ Free web-based email, anytime, anywhere! ZDNet Mail - http://www.zdnetmail.com ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V2 #19 ******************************