In a message dated 8/23/99 11:55:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Kah writes: << but it's mostly by normal "mostpeople" who always listen to the radio but they think they're hipsters because they obsess over this one band that "no one has ever heard of" called they might be giants. as such, i've never listened to them. cuz their fans are sooo normal.

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Errr.. i have a distinct problem with hating bands (or liking them) solely because of their fans. The people who like a certain band are an excellent indicator of what sort of people would normally like the music, but not much else. After all, Stuart Murdoch says he likes AC/DC, a band normally associated with longhaired guys who wear flannel and tight black jeans, and drive loud cars. Granted, plenty of crap bands have crap fans as well. I won't debate that. I just think that "normalcy" is very loosely defined, and there's been a trend in the last several decades for people to assume that they, along with a select few, are different from the masses. When in reality they aren't, simply because there aren't any "masses", just you and your friends, and people who you lump into other categories. This isn't necessarily bad. It just is. Or at least it seems that way to me. I could be wrong. LONELINESS OF A DISTANCE RUNNER (middle or otherwise) as far as i know it's not been released yet. Some talk of it being on the next album, though that may be scurrilous rumor. blake's website rocks. go see it at: http://www.members.tripod.com/nucleartrout/home.htm happy almost anniversary to all dave +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+