From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V10 #409 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Thursday, June 26 2008 Volume 10 : Number 409 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Hello ["Sean -" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:44:35 -0500 From: "Sean -" Subject: [idealcopy] Hello Hi all-- Nice to find this list, was interested in reading the previous digests...of course I haven't seen mny yet. This list is a decade old, thats great. How many current people on the list were there in 1998? Well, my name is Sean from Pittsburgh PA USA. I've liked Wire since the early '80's when '12 X U' was on some double-vinyl punk compilation I bought. I liked it a lot, and got the first couple albums, but my interest in punk waned as I got older, so I forgot about Wire until I found "Manscape" on cassette circa '91. Bought it as a lark and was really surprised by it. The band had certainly evolved and grown. To this day "Manscape" and "The First Letter" are my favorite Wire works, and honestly I've never really cared for that kind of music either. But Wire did it all differently, something quite profound going on that made their music tower above any other post-punk electronica (whatever it is, who cares, right?), and indeed above most bands of any genre. I've come to like and love everything the band has done, but it's that 'middle period' of '86-'93 that has affected me the most. Even "The Drill", no matter what the critics say, it's brilliant. Hope they come to my town, would love to see them. If they ever have come to Pittsburgh I never heard about it. Thats my introduction. Just another Wire fan. :-) - -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V10 #409 ********************************