From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V9 #132 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 Thursday, July 15 2010 Volume 09 : Number 132 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] halftime [Andrew Hamlin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:47:40 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] halftime On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:38 AM, wrote: > I don't do lists anymore, but if I think of one release that's really moved > me thus far this year, it would be Dum Dum Girls' debut. Don't care for them as much as Mark, but they're easy on the ear. Here's my Q&A with Madame Dum Dum: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/apr/28/blurt1/ Waiting for them to get as good as the Shangri-Las, Andy And still on the "guilt" tip, how about a Rexian subcategory for "bands that don't carry a critical stigma, but you still wouldn't identify yourself as 'a ______ fan' when first meeting someone." Two that occur to me immediately are the Smiths/Morrissey and the Cure -- both have sound critical reputations, but identifying yourself as a fan of either pretty much conveys "I still live with my parents, keep a scrapbook of obituaries, and take everything way seriously." It's like saying you're Emmeline Grangerford or somethin.' - --Miles Goosens, from http://www.fegmania.org/archives/fegmaniax/2003/v12.n401 ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V9 #132 *******************************