Sinister: Horriffic and terrible things at Warwick University

[jon g.]

By the way, I was only joking about killing this bloke, so don't do it kids!
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From: jon g. <jon.g at xxx.com>
To: Belle & Sebastian List <sinister at majordomo.net>
Date: 21 February 1998 17:39
Subject: Sinister: Horriffic and terrible things at Warwick University


>I was just reading the uk.music.alternative newsgroup this afternoon, when
I
>got a message telling me to go to
>http://www.angelfire.com/sd/TechnoWonderland/Rant.html
>I went because Belle & Sebastian were in the header.
>
>When I got there, I was outraged.  To save you all having to go there
>yourselves, here is what this person said:
>
>>CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH THE VERBAL BLENDER ARE...
>>
>>BELLE AND SEBASTIAN
>>Ooooohhhh, they're so nice aren't they? I mean, you sit down in a comfy
>armchair next to the hi-fi, wearing >your cosy pink slippers, drinking some
>of that lovely tea that Auntie gave you for Christmas, and after a >while
>you just can't help but be envelopped in their fluffy bunny-wunny harmonies
>and cutesy pop >sensabilites. Right?
>>WRONG!
>>
>>Belle and Sebastian are turgid pop execrement accidentally diverted from
>the planet Crap, sent down to >Earth when their sewage system went wrong
and
>the engineers couldn't be called out 'cos they were >spending the evening
>watching 'The Fast Show' (3rd series). This is music for people who are
>turned by >the sight of paint drying, people who wet their pants at the
>promising thought of seeing Derek Jarman's >"Blue" on TV for the 17th time
>(this time, though, they're going to remember to tape it so they can watch
>it >whenever they want to).
>>
>>God knows how or why they have attained a position, at least in Britain,
of
>being a band on the pinnacle of >great success. Radio 1's Evening Session
>has of course got something and everything to do with it, a >show which
>quite unashamedly denies the chance for decent music like Puressence and
>Dweeb to be >played whilst promoting unmittigated bollocks like
>>Ocean Colour Scene.
>>
>>But the rise of B&S to prominence goes way beyond this. This 'outfit' is
>one of the forefathers of the >NWOLMIC ('New Wave of Look at Me; I'm Cool')
>movement, a harkback to the heady daze of the early >nineties when you
liked
>'indie' bands cos you were 'trendy'. Spiritualised, My Bloody Valentine,
>Indie >Shmindie Pap Krap - you liked these cos no-one else did. Didn't
>matter, of course, that the reason no-one >else bought the records was cos
>they were the sort of bland, anaemic tosh that a sloth could make on one
>of
>his days off.
>>These days it's the same; we've recently had the inexplicable rise of
>Embrace to power - a group so >backward you'd think they had based their
>whole existence on Kriss Kross - and the rebirth of Radiohead, >perfect
>perveyors of the funereal dirge. Both of these encapsulate the
late-nineties
>ethos of 'NWOLMIC'. >Iffy songs? Boring live? Who cares? They're 'cool', so
>I'm going to buy all their records and parade round >like a total gimp
until
>either a) I connect spiritually with loads of other 'cool' people who
'like'
>the same stuff >as me and we live forever and ever in total musical harmony
>(Amen), or b) I get twatted by a stranger for >being a dull-witted,
>non-thinking tosser.
>>
>>Ultimately, though, I feel sorry for B&S, 'cos I'm sure they never wanted
>this sort of adulation. I mean, if >you actually went into a recording
>studio and laid down the kind of colourless aural wallpaper that they did,
>>you wouldn't want others to hear it for fear of being laughed at.
Obviously
>some studio technician stole the >master tapes and went round to Melody
>Maker for a joke, saying they were the 'Next Big Thing', and >events sort
of
>spiralled out of control.
>>
>>Still, I'm sure with your excellent musical taste you haven't bought
>anything by them, anyway.
>>**17th January 1998**
>>
>>
>>If you believe the above to be TOTAL BOLLOCKS or alternatively GODLIKE
>GENIUS,
>>then e-mail me with a well-considered response.
>>Thanks to the CB Boy (Warwick), Tom (Nottingham) and Graham (Glasgow), but
>here's the best one so >far.
>>Keep 'em coming...
>>"'Sans' a whisper of a lie, I have never wet my pants at seeing 'Blue' on
>TV, but as an indominatible Belle & >Sebastian fan, the opening bars of
>'Blue' from 'A Storm In Heaven' have been known to strangle my >presence
and
>cause all sorts of mass hysteria including ejaculation. Just thought I'd
set
>the record straight. >PS Is indominatible a word?"
>>Benita (Warwick)
>>
>>
>>RE-ENTER  THE SCENE
>>
>>Email: frujx at csv.warwick.ac.uk
>
>Response?  I say the whole list should email him back to tell him that we
>believe the above to be total bollocks, but that's just my opinion.  Maybe
>we should get his address and then wait outside the butchers for him with a
>knife and a bike chain.  If I kill him now, who's going to miss him?
>
>I notice from the sinister site that mauab at csv.warwick.ac.uk -
>eculb at csv.warwick.ac.uk -mavgc at csv.warwick.ac.uk and
pyuja at csv.warwick.ac.uk
>are on the list with csv.warwick.ac.uk email addresses.  Do you know this
>bloke frujx at csv.warwick.ac.uk ?(A long shot - to know someone in a huge
>institution by their email address, but you might do(!)).  Ahhh - looking
at
>the newsgroup posting, his name is Rob Learner.  This is getting pretty
>dangerous for rob now - we know his name and where he lives!!!!
>
>jon g.
>jon.g at btinternet.com - http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/
>
>ps - belle & sebastian won both the album of 1997 and the single of 1997 on
>my website voting thingy, so they should be receiving a polystyrene award
>statue thingy in about two months time....
>
>
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