Sinister: Observations of the obvious kind

[Eeyore]

At 07:54 PM 11/13/97 +0000, you wrote:
>> Remember this list is about BELLE +
>> SEBASTIAN!!!!
>
the duke:
>and herein lies the eternal Pop dilemma: for what
>purposes do you use Pop?  for what purpose do you
>use Belle & Sebastian?  me, i'm a firm believer in
>the concept of Pop as personal life informant,
>reflector, enabler, distorter and lover.  and
>probably a load of other things too.  See i don't
>think belle & sebastian are about music.  i don't
>understand music at all.  in fact i might go so
>far as to say i hate music, and it's here where i
>doubtless fall foul of many people, including i
>don't doubt all those members of the band who just
>love the bloody stuff and who witter on about the
>music saying everything it needs to and then
>shutting up.  actually i don't mind that so much,
>what i do mind is people who will only endlessly
>consume the facts of belle and sebastian, that are
>concerned with hearing only about product and what
>songs they played at such and such a show and what
>did stuart say between songs?  all interesting
>stuff, perhaps (but only perhaps), but for me,
>what REALLY makes me smile and gush about the
>appeal of belle and sebastian is the way in which
>people are here openly displaying to us something
>of THEIR lives, of the ways in which this Pop has
>touched them, moved them, informed and deformed
>the ways in which their moments pass.
>
>long may you prosper.  (although a few less posts
>about lemurs would be good... oh and who mentioned
>meerkats?  the wolfhounds production team were
>called the meerkats, were they not?  Tim?)
>
>love and slobbering kisses to anyone who deserves
>it.

Hear, hear!
Eeyore



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