All I can say is that REM were, for me the best band ever, they they got BIG and have been shite ever since -as Peter Buck said "play for your heart not for the chart" I can't see B&S ever reaching stadiums - just due to the style of music- I hope they have a great time and make a shit load of money - I just don't want to see them on top of the pops tim Scott_Turner@JH.COM on 16/09/98 16:57:00 To: sinister@majordomo.net cc: (bcc: Tim Groves/Interfocus) Subject: Re: Sinister: watch your tongues Date: Wed, Sep 16, 1998 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Sinister: watch your tongues A!M!E!N! Glenn. I hate hearing all this nonsense to about, don't care about who likes them, just listen to the music. That is the biggest crock of shite. the music of b&s is about a marginalized community and you can't extract that from the magic of the music. Honestly, god forbid the mainstream culture appropriates us into their hiddeous dialectic and sandpapers all our poignancy and soft eyes down to another chapter in a Century of Fakers, the way it did to "alternative" music in the 90s. (i would get off the soapbox, now, but the view is really enthralling- would you look at that baldspot- who new?) .scott On 16 September at 15:39 GMT, Glenn Peoples <GRP wrote: there seems to be quite a bit of talk about the band's chart positions and the usual types of comment toward a brilliant underground band, such as "they should be the biggest band in the world" and "it would be criminal if they aren't stars after this album." if you said or thought either, you are either a liar or a fool. can you imagine never again seeing b&s in an intimate setting? would you like to show up to one of those arena shows and have a bunch of fucking rookie third eye blind (or the u.k. equivilent) fans standing next to you. i know tons of people who would never go see b&s in a venue larger than 1,500. they don't want to share their bands with others, they don't want to think they have the same musical tastes as the average music consumer, and they live for being insider trendies who are one step ahead of the masses. in all honesty, i can't say i'm that much different from them (though i would brave the fair-weather fans and go to an arena show if need be). same goes for most of the people on this list. don't wish for too much success for b&s lest you have to let your 11-year-old sister borrow your new CD. would you still be a fan after that brutal experience? or would you revert to the classic i-was-here-before-you comment, "well, it's not as good as their old stuff"? glenn +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". 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