All the people on this list sure weren't half this adorable in 1992. What I mean is that they were all listening to Fugazi and Mudhoney and the Dead C and shit like that because it was vogueish to be into, you know, the 'extremes of rock', all the Stooges and stuff.
Were all the list into this stuff? I know quite a lot of people on the list, but proportionally only a small amount of people, and I've met even less of them, however, this interesting statistic you've come up with seems to suggest that over 700 people were all into Fugazi 6 years ago - and what's more, every last one of them was only in on it to look cool! In that case I suggest this is a far better reason for you to leave the list than a dislike of St.Etienne - who'd want to be hanging around with such a raving bunch of phoneys. I suspect Tim Groves problem with the list at the moment is not just because there's too much talk of St.Etienne going on, but that there's too much shite being talked - like people being accused of things they didn't say, the entire list being accused of being *something* by someone who evidently doesn't know anything about it. And it's a bloody pity. I suppose it was obvious that the list was gonna go through a certain amount of upheaval of late, as naturally there will be a lot of people who've just got into the band coming on, and the numbers certainly have swelled. I don't see why this should cause too many problems really - it is a good thing. There are always a large number of people who're not really interested in what they're talking about, be it Prolapse, Mudhoney or Belle and Sebastian. There's just no point in worrying about it though, cause they're not going to go away - and there are shedloads of people on the list who're genuinely into what they're talking about. I certainly am - I can't see how I can ever pretend to be "cool", my tastes are often too popular for the obscurist crowds and often to obscure for the mainstream crowd. I can't say I really think about it. In any case, here's a joke that was on the radio the other morning... How do you turn a duck into a pop star? Put it in the microwave till it's Bill Withers. Cheers, Keith. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+