Hello people, its been a long time and i thought that i should probably show my face [metaphorically speaking of course, none of you i suspect are REALLY bothered about seeing it], just because i felt like it and that the issue of B+S popularity has risen again from the great undead mass and i never got round to commenting on it in the first place. My thought, if such it can be called is this; B+S make quite glorious P!O!P! and the idea of music is at some level to be heard and felt. The implication of this is that music is an individual experience and thus does it actually matter how many people listen to it? judging by the number of say, REM fans knocking around the list i should say not but thats not to say that any of you see REM, or indeed B+S in exactly the same way, its just that both hold a certain appeal at one level which the members of this list find sufficiently to share, albeit as part of 'communities' of differing sizes [though to be fair, REM have been at it a hell of a long time by P!O!P! standards]. Hope someone amongst the c. 1300 found that of some interest... Noticed the word 'Townies' in a couple of recent posts, now sorry to sound ignorant, having had a rural upbringing and all, and thus not sharing such cosmopolitan language [or if it comes to that being deliberately thick, just for once, i seek information on something that bothers me...], its just that where i come from, 'Townies' are annoying people who leave gates open whilst wondering in the wrong direction wearing green wellies and allowing their dogs to chase small children. however, i suspect from the context that it means those perpetually dressed in sportsware whilst being Destinies Child/Stereophonics fans. Sorry if this display of petty ignorance annoys anyone, or indeed offers the impression that i am but a simple country boy [heavens, Tony Blair claims this folks], but it makes a change from people asking for a definition of 'Twee'... Adam (apologising for excessive length) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+