Sinister: won't people understand?

[Lamba, Sanjeet]

I don't know who went off about Semisonic and BareNaked Ladies and Matchbox
20 because the replies and previous messages made it confusing, but whoever
you are, you seem a bit high strung. I mean, I happen to agree with you on
all three of those songs, but so what? If I don't like it, I don't listen to
it. And if someone else does like it, fine with me. I'm not out to convert
them like some musical crusader. Just figure that plenty of folks out there
would listen to B&S and call it overly sensitive or not grand enough in its
messages (trust me, lots of Bob Dylan fans might think this). Who cares what
they think? That's why there's lists like this.

Anyway, with that, I unsubscribe. Only because this is my e-mail account at
work and I can't afford to have hundreds of messages, interesting as they
may be, clogging up the firm's memory space. It was an enjoyable 2 weeks
everyone.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Suzanne Schroeder [SMTP:suzsch at xxx.net]
> Sent:	Friday, July 17, 1998 4:33 PM
> To:	sinister at majordomo.net
> Subject:	Sinister: won't people understand?
> 
> 
> > 
> > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:58:08 +0100 (BST)
> > From: Stuart Gardiner <skg21 at xxx.uk>
> > Subject: Sinister: I love you all...
> > 
> > On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Suzanne Schroeder wrote:
> > 
> > > "If I had a million dollars I'd buy your love..."  It kept going on
> and
> on
> > > until I figured out "Hey, wait!  This is an actual song!"
> > > 
> > > I cringed my way through the rest of it and later discovered it was
> the
> > > Barenaked Ladies!  They're Canadian!
> > 
> > Personally I quite like this song actually - although that's probably
> just
> > because it brings back memories of travelling over to Holland with a
> > coach load of students for a korfball tournament, doing mass karaoke to
> > it.
> > 
> > "If I had a million dollars, I'd buy you a green dress;
> >  But not a real green dress, that's cruel..."
> > 
> > Music shouldn't be taken seriously all the time...
> 
> That's not my problem with the friggin song, people!  I own They Might Be
> Giants' "Flood" and that cheese kicks the ass of this cheese.  I hate it. 
> right now, it's third on my music hate list:
> 
> 1.  Matchbox 20's "I want to know what it's like to be the rainmaker" song
> 
> There are no words to describe how inane and shitty this song is.  I've
> never telepathically sent death threats before to a song.   I hate it when
> bands try to write crap lyrics like that trying to be incredibly deep when
> they don't even know what in the hell they are talking about.  go ahead! 
> Do it!  Ask them the next time what they mean by "I wonder what it's like
> to be the rainmaker/ I wonder what it's like to make the rain" and they'll
> stare at their shoes a while and look over at their manager for help.  The
> music is incredibly plodding.  Go make Coca Cola Gen-X jingles, you
> losers!
> 
> 2.  Semisonic's "closing Time"
> 
> "I know who I want to take me home" repeated over and over again.  then,
> over and over again.  Only to be rewarded with the stupid end all "Go back
> to the places you will be from"  Who in the hell wrote that?  Yoda?  "Go
> home he will, yes?  Luke,  closing time has come and father will come, he
> will...."
> 
> 3.  Barenaked Ladies "If I had a million dollars."
> 
> It sounds like a commercial jingle and any song that sounds like a
> commercial jingle must be killed.  It has created the greatest offense to
> us all by not bothering to distinguish itself from crap music old men in
> suits playing golf in their offices and thinking all 10 year olds
> skateboard, wear a walkman 24 hours a day, and say that everything is
> "Radical!"  imagine the 18-34 age bracket identify with and would happily
> use in their next cat litter campaign!  It's even worse that they sound
> exactly like studio singers you can hire and not credit on any given
> release.
> 
> > I also think "The Boy With The Arab Strap" is a great name for the
> album,
> > if only because it will confuse all the music journos who insist on
> > writing about B&S as these twee, innocent, mother-loving types all the
> > time...
> >
> They aren't pulling people's ying yang with that title, are they?  For
> them
> to be obviously ripping off a band's name like that is a bit.....obvious..
> 
> 
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