At 23:25 09/07/99 -0400, you wrote: <snip>
On most other mailing lists the post are breif, often inflammatory and generally nothing seems to serious (ie Modlists) however a lot of post here are almost confessional...dear Diary stuff. It's odd how many people are under the assumption that being a B&S fan means we all share the same mindset and are all Soul Mates, which I find vastly amusing. Me thinks perhaps it is because of the median age of listees, late teens, early 20's . . . ie Smiths fans feeling the same, the sense of depression, outsideness etc is very much the same with B&S fans, just look at the confessional output here and think about it. <snip>
But it's not just a Sinister thing, it happens in loads of places - I mean, I've seen message boards on RPG sites which have managed to develop a strong sense of community, and after a while quite personal, confessional things were also posted . . . I mean no, we don't all share the same mindset, but maybe one or two of us do, and posting such things here is a neat way of finding those one or two other similarly-minded people who are also subscribed to the group. and sadly I believe this is being carefully orchestrated...........
I am not critcizing B&S I still like their music but I think many fans really have to see the reality of this movement, which after all is still based on a commercial, pop, money making band.
Perhaps unsuprisingly, I have to disagree :-) Like in the previous example, the product (in this case, B&S records) brought people together, but wasn't what makes them stay together (blimey, I'm sounding a little wishy-washy here). *stops before he starts lapsing into clichés . . . like he hasn't already :-)* -- Gary Lawler ---------------- ICQ: 11115268 AIM: seclite369 ---------------- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+