Sinister: watch your tongues

[Scott Turner]

A!M!E!N! Glenn.

I hate hearing all this nonsense to about, don't care about who likes them,
just listen to the music. That is the biggest crock of shite. the music of
b&s is about a marginalized community and you can't extract that from the
magic of the music.

Honestly, god forbid the mainstream culture appropriates us into their
hiddeous dialectic and sandpapers all our poignancy and soft eyes down to
another chapter in a Century of Fakers, the way it did to "alternative"
music in the 90s.

(i would get off the soapbox, now, but the view is really enthralling-
would you look at that baldspot- who new?)

.scott

On 16 September at 15:39 GMT, Glenn Peoples <GRP wrote:




there seems to be quite a bit of talk about the band's chart positions and
the usual types of comment toward a brilliant underground band, such as
"they should be the biggest band in the world" and "it would be criminal if
they aren't stars after this album."

if you said or thought either, you are either a liar or a fool.  can you
imagine never again seeing b&s in an intimate setting?  would you like to
show up to one of those arena shows and have a bunch of fucking
rookie third eye blind (or the u.k. equivilent) fans standing next to you.
i
know tons of people who would never go see b&s in a venue larger than
1,500.  they don't want to share their bands with others, they don't want
to think they have the same musical tastes as the average music
consumer, and they live for being insider trendies who are one step
ahead of the masses.  in all honesty, i can't say i'm that much different
from them (though i would brave the fair-weather fans and go to an
arena show if need be).

same goes for most of the people on this list.  don't wish for too much
success for b&s lest you have to let your 11-year-old sister borrow your
new CD.  would you still be a fan after that brutal experience? or would
you revert to the classic i-was-here-before-you comment, "well, it's not
as good as their old stuff"?

glenn
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