On Friday, Oct 2, 1970, at 16:46 America/New_York, duke of harringay wrote:
Usually I stop liking someone because their records start to bore me or I just got excited by something else and couldn’t afford the time, energy or cash outlay to keep up to date with so and so's latest record...
The Duke touches on but does not explicitly state this other tenet of popularity: once bands become 'popular' they really lose it. Is it too many cooks in the kitchen? Expectations doomed to failure? Whatever, it's true. So surprise, surprise, I like the new album. Perhaps its because Stuart doesn't trade off the songwriting credits so readily as on 'Fold Your Hands...' I hope the album reaches number one; I hope all the kids pay attention this time. Its hard to begrudge anyone who is putting energy and attention into the same thing as you are. (And all that time previously spent claiming who was first seems kind of stupid and pointless now). Hello. Matthew +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+