From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V1 #34 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Thursday, November 21 2002 Volume 01 : Number 034 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:46:37 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas Re: top 100 albums of 80's > nation is a great album, but #1? Hell, I want to make > my own list, one that gives all styles a fair shake, > from punk, post-punk, goth, ska, new wave, more of a > democratic list rather than just the darlings of the > American underground. Ah, but college radio was the only medium that really spread bands like EATB in the 80s. REM even owe a huge amount of their success to college radio. So maybe there should be a American college radio darlings list ;-) Make yer own top 100! We've had loads of different 'make your list' fun 'round here.... do you want to do an 80s one? I don't think anyone's restricted themselves to a decade (though I could be wrong). What *would* be harder would be a 70s one, IMHO. I mean, I'd make everyone ill by stuffing it with Rush .... no ... but _The Wall_ would definitely make it. Maybe whomever compiled that list gets a kickback on Pixies and Sonic Youth albums sold ;-) - --Amy, too sick to play -- but y'all go on ahead ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:44:54 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Ironside Subject: Re: seven-seas Re: top 100 albums of 80's - --- Amy Moseley Rupp wrote: > > nation is a great album, but #1? Hell, I want to > make > > my own list, one that gives all styles a fair > shake, > > from punk, post-punk, goth, ska, new wave, more of > a > > democratic list rather than just the darlings of > the > > American underground. > > Ah, but college radio was the only medium that > really spread > bands like EATB in the 80s. REM even owe a huge > amount of their > success to college radio. > > So maybe there should be a American college radio > darlings list ;-) > > Make yer own top 100! > > We've had loads of different 'make your list' fun > 'round here.... > do you want to do an 80s one? I don't think > anyone's restricted > themselves to a decade (though I could be wrong). > > What *would* be harder would be a 70s one, IMHO. I > mean, I'd > make everyone ill by stuffing it with Rush .... no > ... but _The > Wall_ would definitely make it. > > Maybe whomever compiled that list gets a kickback on > Pixies and > Sonic Youth albums sold ;-) > > --Amy, too sick to play -- but y'all go on ahead > >These lists are no easy trick, I think its safer to do more specialized lists, like they do in Alternative Press magazine. Like the 10 best geek rock albums of all time, or the best ten albums with singers you can't understand but the music speaks for them. ie. 1) Suicide- S/T 2) Sigur Ros- Aegetis Byrjun 3) Cocteau Twins-Treasure etc. doing a list of the 70's is dangerous because you have your glam, prog rock, dino rock, punk rock, disco, R and B, blaxploitation, Heavy Metal, Folk Rock, not exactly amicable bedfellows, but a daunting task indeed. You ever heard of a band called Budgie? metallica covered their Breadfan song, a pretty good heavy underrated group, the singer sounds like Geddy Lee, and the rythm section sounds like Black Sabbath and Zeppelin, their songs have weird titles like Hot as a docker's armpit, and they would set you up by having their really heavy songs followed by soft an melodic beatles like songs. Evah hoid of dem? O.K. a tough question, who was cooler Richard Butler in the beginning (Sister Europe era) or Mac? Yahoo! Mail Plus  Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:34:38 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: seven-seas OT: QOTSA on TOTP Lots of acronyms in that subject line! It was good to see Queens of the Stone Age on TOTP.... ....but how in the heck did Shania Twain crawl back onto *any* chart? Thought I have to say, MOST of the acts seemed to be sexpot-oriented..... Donnii Minogue? Gotta be related to Kylie. - --Amy (forced to watch TV at 12.30 am by ill child) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V1 #34 *******************************