From: owner-the-landing-digest@smoe.org (the-landing-digest) To: the-landing-digest@smoe.org Subject: the-landing-digest V3 #71 Reply-To: the-landing@smoe.org Sender: owner-the-landing-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-the-landing-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk the-landing-digest Friday, April 28 2000 Volume 03 : Number 071 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Cake and musical styles [Jen Fiddes ] Big Problemo [SNZfreak@aol.com] Re: the-landing-digest V3 #70 [LitLpish9@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 05:17:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Jen Fiddes Subject: Re: Cake and musical styles sorry if this is a dead disscussion but i have to stick up for one of my absolute favorite bands....cake cracks me up...their entire gig is a big parody of life and love and lounge music....even my brother likes them....as well as my buddy reese, who's in the zippers....but i'm not trying to speak for anyone but myself....their lyrics are ingenius...they make entire songs out of nonsense but it works so well.....they've changed my outlook on life to a much brighter one by making fun of life in a beautiful way....alright ive said my peice later jen On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Daniel Summers wrote: > First of all, Cake's album Fashion Nugget is easily one of the '90's best > I think. It includes amazing lyrics for quite a few of the songs and > musically is just wonderful. There are only 2 or 3 songs on the album that > i am not a fan of; the rest is absolutely wonderful. Unfortuntely I can't > say the same about their new(est) album Prolonging the Magic. I don't find > it even a fraction as good as Fashion Nugget. > Now onto the musical styles comment (Whew, it's nice to have some life on > this list!). I personally did NOT find it offensive, even if I do not agree > with it completely. I agree with some of Larissa's comments on it. I don't > think you can label an entire genre as being "crap" because that is just > unfair. I don't care for rap or R & B mostly, but every once in a while > something will pop up that is very good! Also, I hate the "genre" thing > because many times a band or singer does not fit into one genre (Take SNZ or > BoF for example). In my opinion the best music stores would just JUNK genre > distinctions and organize ALL music alphabetically in ONE AREA, no matter > what the "style". Also radio stations should just play quality music; > forget about pop, light rock, country, opera, classical, alternative, R & B, > electronica, etc. and just play music!!! Expose us to all that is out there > without repeating the same Britany Spears song 5 times a day! > Sometimes music is CRAP completely, and I feel that there is NOTHING WRONG > WITH EXPRESSING YOUR ABSOLUTE DISTASTE FOR POOR MUSIC. I do it all the > time. Just realize that unfortunately not all people will agree with you =) > Many people's quality standards are set so low that some people actually > like poor quality music!!! That's been a hard thing for me to get > accustomed to =) > Sometimes music is just plain entertaining, and can be quality just in > those regards....but not always. Some music is just plain junk, but I won't > mention any names, because like I said, we all have differing viewpoints and > different quality standards. > It would be nice if we could scientifically examine all music and deduce > by scientific method what music is quality and what music is not. > Unfortunately that cannot be done =( So we just have to live in the best > musically harmony we can. . . . . . . . > > Sincerely; > Trent/Daniel Summers > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite > Visit http://freeworld.excite.com > - -- all things must end for others to begin... jen fiddes-jen@wmbc.umbc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu Apr 27 08:18:01 2000 From: SNZfreak@aol.com Subject: Big Problemo Ok, first of all I sent my flower money and stuff, so it should be arriving soon. Next, I won't be able to respond or anything for the next couple days, as I was struck with the Chernoble (Or however you spell it) virus. For those of you who aren't familiar with said virus, it erases your hard drive and makes it impossible to boot your computer. Hopefully I will be able to fix it tonight, but there is no definite time that I will have any internet service other than at School, which is where I am right now. So, wish my luck guys and gals, and talk to you in the near future! ~~G GEorGE ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:43:51 EDT From: LitLpish9@aol.com Subject: Re: the-landing-digest V3 #70 I sent my $3 in yesterday! :) *laura* ------------------------------ End of the-landing-digest V3 #71 ********************************