In a message dated 00-05-19 07:37:12 EDT, you write: << To paraphrase John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful -- artists haven't been that astute in making political statements in the past, so why should they start now? I don't listen to a lot of overtly political bands (Atari Teenage Riot being an exception), and I'm not a very political person >> John Sebastian may never have been very good at making political statements, rather he was good at making a boatload of money which is probably invested in various pharmaceuitcal companies or Boing at this point....I guess John was down on the beach working out harmonies and tans while others were opening eyes and ears to Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll or Masters of War. There's politics in most things beautiful; if The Chalet Lines isn't a sorrowful commentary on some of society's deeper plaguing issues, I don't know what is. n. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+