Sinister: teenage fanclubs

[ELIZABETH DAPLYN]

> John shamefacedly wrote:
> 	Coz it then struck me
> 	(ouch) that the only other fanclub i've been in was
> for...........Big
> 	Country!
> 	...how I loved to stroll
> 	around in my "country club" T-shirt with the epic slogan "Stay Alive
> in
> 	85" (a good idea when you considered the alternative...). 
> 
>      Jeezus Kerrist!  Am I glad I wasn't paying any attention to pop music
> throughout the 80s or what?!  If even the dedicated indie-poppers of the
> list can get sucked into the dark and slimy underworld of Big Country
> t-shirt-wearing, there would have been no hope for a puir Midland preteen
> such as myself 10 years ago.  
>      But no, I adhered limpetlike to my tapes of Vivaldi concerti all
> those years ago, spurning the "charms" of Mr Michael Jackson etc.  It does
> mean I have to catch up on The Smiths etc now, but I believe this is an
> acceptable effort to make in exchange for not owning anything by Satan's
> Bleachboy.
>      What's the most hideously embarrassing record owned by a member of
> the list?  Or have we done the embarrassing music thing before?  My memory
> is going already...
> 
>                               ByeBye,
>                                            Liz
> (edaplynr3n00297 at kiadroch.kiad.ac.uk)
> 
> ***********************
> silence
> 
> .is
> a
> looking
> 
> bird: the
> 
> turn
> ing; edge, of
> life
> 
> (inquiry before snow
> 
>         e.e. cummings
> ***********************
> 
> Hah!  I found out yesterday that my birthday is the same as ee's.  Happy
> happy joy joy!
> 
> 
> 
> 
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