From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V9 #26 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Tuesday, February 9 2010 Volume 09 : Number 026 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Results of a poll [Andrew Hamlin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:10:23 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Results of a poll > Woo! My review of the Lights album over at PopMatters has spawned a bizarre > amount of negative comments and emails. Vindicated! Hm...I'm seeing Jer's review, here, but no attatched vitriol: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/66317-lights-lights/ Puzzler of the day: this new Jane Siberry/Issa record, from late last year. Wow. Whoa. Why is no one talking about this one? Waiting on the new Ratt, naturally, Andy Frankly, I am not offended at all by the offhand nature of those songs. Rather than either condemn or apologize for their triteness, I will merely refer you to the current issue of Who Put the Bomp magazine, where Mark Shipper makes note of the fact that Sky Saxon wrote "Pushin' Too Hard" for the Seeds in ten minutes while waiting for his girl to get out of a supermarketand comments that he'd rather not publish a review of any album that contains a song that took longer than ten minutes to write. Now, I can't be that much of a purist, because I'm sure that "Highway Star" and "Space Truckin'" took at least 20 minutes each to compose, but I do know that this very banality is half the fun of rock 'n' roll. And I am confident that I will love the next five Deep Purple albums madly so long as they sound exactly like these last three. - --Lester Bangs, from his review of Deep Purple's MACHINE HEAD, http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/238402/review/6068232 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:44:22 -0500 From: Jer Fairall Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Results of a poll Heh. That's her old one. Try here: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/119247-lights-the-listening/ Secretly wondering why Andy is so disappointed with his feet, Jer On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > > Woo! My review of the Lights album over at PopMatters has spawned a > bizarre > > amount of negative comments and emails. Vindicated! > > Hm...I'm seeing Jer's review, here, but no attatched vitriol: > > http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/66317-lights-lights/ > > Puzzler of the day: this new Jane Siberry/Issa record, from late last > year. Wow. Whoa. Why is no one talking about this one? > > Waiting on the new Ratt, naturally, > > Andy > > > Frankly, I am not offended at all by the offhand nature of those > songs. Rather than either condemn or apologize for their triteness, I > will merely refer you to the current issue of Who Put the Bomp > magazine, where Mark Shipper makes note of the fact that Sky Saxon > wrote "Pushin' Too Hard" for the Seeds in ten minutes while waiting > for his girl to get out of a supermarket and comments that he'd rather > not publish a review of any album that contains a song that took > longer than ten minutes to write. > > Now, I can't be that much of a purist, because I'm sure that "Highway > Star" and "Space Truckin'" took at least 20 minutes each to compose, > but I do know that this very banality is half the fun of rock 'n' > roll. And I am confident that I will love the next five Deep Purple > albums madly so long as they sound exactly like these last three. > > --Lester Bangs, from his review of Deep Purple's MACHINE HEAD, > http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/238402/review/6068232 > - -- Jer Fairall jer.fairall@gmail.com ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V9 #26 ******************************