Tag wrote
... we should be using all this we get from these records, making everyone laugh (like Peter and Susannah), writing witty little anecdotes about their lives (like Genevieve), or making films, getting together, forming bands, opening clubs, launching plans for an international pop underground magazine.
Are we sure this is McTaggart? Sounds more like Brother John Robb to me. Heh heh. A point well made though. Bitching about other peoples' favourite bands is harsh (though great fun), and I don't think the list is the place for it, really. I think one of the fantastic things about B&S is the way they come to unite people, not in an unthinking, we're-all-alive-together, Oasis-stylee, but as individual reference points, or like a jumping-off point, and things like the list are a part of that. What I mean is that, when you find someone else who shares your adoration, the chances are, not that you'll all possess the same Beatles-Ned's-Black Grape British Heritage CD collection like with other groups, but that they'll be able do you a singularly enchanting mix tape, and sends you off in loads of fantastic directions, and vice-versa. They're a part of the great big, sunny paper-chase of pop/films/books that, seventy-percent of the time, makes life worthwhile. That and the All Saints pictures in FHM. Who rattled my cage, eh? Jeez. Joseph xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------