Sinister: Oh dear

[Keith Watson]

>All the people on this list sure weren't half this adorable in 1992.
>What I mean is that they were all listening to Fugazi and Mudhoney and
> the Dead C and shit like that because it was vogueish to be into, you
> know, the 'extremes of rock', all the Stooges and stuff.


Were all the list into this stuff? I know quite a lot of people on the 
list, but proportionally only a small amount of people, and I've met even 
less of them, however, this interesting statistic you've come up with seems 
to suggest that over 700 people were all into Fugazi 6 years ago - and 
what's more, every last one of them was only in on it to look cool! In that 
case I suggest this is a far better reason for you to leave the list than a 
dislike of St.Etienne - who'd want to be hanging around with such a raving 
bunch of phoneys.

  I suspect Tim Groves problem with the list at the moment is not just 
because there's too much talk of St.Etienne going on, but that there's too 
much shite being talked - like people being accused of things they didn't 
say, the entire list being accused of being *something* by someone who 
evidently doesn't know anything about it. And it's a bloody pity. I suppose 
it was obvious that the list was gonna go through a certain amount of 
upheaval of late, as naturally there will be a lot of people who've just 
got into the band coming on, and the numbers certainly have swelled. I 
don't see why this should cause too many problems really - it is a good 
thing. There are always a large number of people who're not really 
interested in what they're talking about, be it Prolapse, Mudhoney or Belle 
and Sebastian. There's just no point in worrying about it though, cause 
they're not going to go away - and there are shedloads of people on the 
list who're genuinely into what they're talking about. I certainly am - I 
can't see how I can ever pretend to be "cool", my tastes are often too 
popular for the obscurist crowds and often to obscure for the mainstream 
crowd. I can't say I really think about it.


In any case, here's a joke that was on the radio the other morning... How 
do you turn a duck into a pop star? Put it in the microwave till it's Bill 
Withers.

Cheers,
  Keith.

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