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tmbg-list Digest, Volume 3, Number 364
Wednesday, 31 December 1997
Today's Topics:
TMBG: the so-called masses
Re: TMBG: Following the TMBG masses
TMBG: Re: tmbg-list Digest #3-363
TMBG: Lincoln the band
Re: TMBG: Lincoln the band
TMBG: Sean Altman on TMBG
TMBG: Re: The conceit of the TMBG list
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From: Happyfroot <Happyfroot@aol.com>
Message-ID: <da187d16.34a9286c@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 11:59:22 EST
Subject: TMBG: the so-called masses
Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)
well, i've got to just say that I hate BNL & BF5...I've listenened to a couple
of their songs & I just don't like them... I've got to say that when someone
mentions a band on a list, usually all the others that like that band speak up
& say "hey, me too!" & a few check out the bands & think "hey! i like that" or
"hey! that sucks!" but i believe this is truely a very small minority & isn't
quite "the masses." most people have their opinions about things pretty well
set in their minds & probably won't change much...good example of this, i
thought BNL sucked before i heard them being talked about on the list & i
still do. well, what i'm trying to say is that you won't change people's
opinions, maybe you'll introduce them to a band that they like but never heard
of, but, whew! ok, i'm not going to post anymore about this....my first & last
post on the subject.....hopefully......
jason "mr. hankey, the christmas poop" glastetter
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From: KdsInThHal <KdsInThHal@aol.com>
Message-ID: <e0fc5e00.34a93e1f@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 13:31:57 EST
Subject: Re: TMBG: Following the TMBG masses
Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)
I really want to ignore this thread because just thinking about it gives me a
headache. But it's all about my bands. :) So. Me input! Me input! Just don't
let me try to make a point.
I'm a "rabid" fan of 2 bands equally. TMBG and Barenaked Ladies. They share
everything in my head 50/50. So I do like many other bands after hearing about
them on the BNL newsgroup (mostly canadian ones) but a lot of times they
overlap (BF5, Moxy Fruvous). In fact I hardly listen to my TMBG and BNL cd's
as much as I used to because of my ever growing cd collection (but that does
NOT mean in any way that I like them any less!). I really don't think we're
copying each other. I think, ok, <g> I think we are programmed this way <g>.
We just have the same tastes in music (well we all like tMBG don't we?) And
we look for the same things in bands. Not necessarily the same things as in
TMBG, but I mean the same things overall. Whatever those things are, I don't
know. We just all have pretty much the same taste.
But if anyone wants to copy me, go to a BNL concert and buy Kevin Hearn's solo
cd it is SO good.
sarah
http://lava.home.ml.org
"There was fresh butter meltin', on a waffle.. the sky was so blue that the
clouds felt awful" ~ Kevin Hearn
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From: Yellovinki <Yellovinki@aol.com>
Message-ID: <a668d5cc.34a9438c@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 13:55:06 EST
Subject: TMBG: Re: tmbg-list Digest #3-363
Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)
For the record I had heard of Moxy Fruvous and BNL long before I heard of
TMBG. Living in Canada I have been exposed to many bands that many down south
have never heard of. I don't neccesarily like them (outside of "King of
Spain" MF hasn't floated my boat, and BNL hasn't been any good after Gordon-
but their first EP was brilliant) My tastes do diverge in many ways from the
norm not just to be different but to be me. I also like some more popular
music as well- Smashing Pumpkins etc.- because I enjoy them, not to be cool.
("Being cool you'll find is a state of mind, a refreshing attitude, when tings
get hot and cool is all you got...").
Yours in Herring,
Doctor K.
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From: filthyscarecrow@webtv.net
Message-Id: <199712302337.PAA13724@mailtod-151.iap.bryant.webtv.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 18:37:46 -0500
Subject: TMBG: Lincoln the band
Where do you people find these C.D.s by Lincoln? I've looked
everywhere with no avail...
Is anyone on this list a Pocket Monsters fan? Does anyone play Rifts?
I, being a watcher of Nickelodeon, have found another reference to
Them. One of the episodes of Rugrats is called "Destination Moon".
Coincidence, prolly.
I also found a reference on the Simpsons (surprise). Homer was an
autorail driver and a sticker on the auto car fell off. Behind the
sticker was another one that read "64 worlds fair"
Freak Boy, Marvin, Paranoid Android
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Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19971230184217.006a63a4@130.127.28.14>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 18:42:17 -0500
From: Adam Tyner <ctyner@CLEMSON.EDU>
Subject: Re: TMBG: Lincoln the band
At 06:37 PM 12/30/97 -0500, you wrote:
> Where do you people find these C.D.s by Lincoln? I've looked
>everywhere with no avail...
It's in print, so even if a store doesn't have it in stock, they ought to
be able to order it for you.
When I bought it, it was in the Misc. L section...
-Adam
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Subject: TMBG: Sean Altman on TMBG
Message-ID: <rplass.971230.18500801@schicktech.com>
From: rplass@schicktech.com (Robert Plass)
Date: 30 Dec 1997 18:50:08 EST
Organization: Schick Technolgies
Hello exquisite living people,
I found this interesting tidbit at Sean Altman's (formerly of Rockapella)
website: http://www.bigsean.com/oldquest.shtml is the URL:
Dear Sean:
Do you ever listen to They Might Be Giants, Barenaked Ladies or Moxy Fruvous?
Sincerely, Sonia Libby
Dear Sonia:
They Might Be Giants is one of my fave bands. One of the two Johns,
Linnell, was in a Providence new-wave outfit called The Mundanes while I
was at Brown, and I recall seeing them play at a frat party. I still own that
band's 45-rpm single, which is probably worth lots to some TMBG fan (yes,
I'll sell). The other John, Flansburgh, is an occasional Loser's Lounge
performer, and we've chatted amiably. I've been to ten TMBG concerts
and I own all their albums. "Birdhouse In Your Soul" is one of my fave pop
tunes of all time. TMBG contributed a song to Carmen Sandiego: Out of
This World, an album I co-produced. I've read lots of great things about
Barenaked Ladies, and have heard a few songs, but I own none of their
albums. I own all of Moxy Fruvous' albums, I've been to three of their
concerts, and I admire them very much.
Love, Sean
Wow! What's up with the 45 single from Linnell? I never heard of it, does
anyone actually have it?
Anyway, the connection between Sean and TMBG is that he and
Flans sang "Careless Santa" in an a capella version two Saturdays
ago (see one of my previous posts for a review).
Happy New Year everyone, please don't drink and drive! Just drink.
Love,
Robert Plass <rplass@schicktech.com>
Operations Manager and Webmaster
Schick Technologies, Inc. 31-00 47th Avenue Long Island City, NY 11101
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From: Vandal191 <Vandal191@aol.com>
Message-ID: <d416da52.34a9a0a9@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 20:32:21 EST
Subject: TMBG: Re: The conceit of the TMBG list
Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)
In a message dated 97-12-30 02:09:39 EST, Monotreme3 wrote:
<<
Okay. So far this doesn't actually seem to be such a hotly debated issue. It
could be that people are just ignoring it so it doesn't turn into a big long
string of unnecessary insults, but I'm sure it wouldn't come to that. People
are probably just off somewhere for the holidays anyway. Okay, now the point.
I don't think that "people on the list" like to think they're special at all.
You're on the list, yes? I, for one, listen to what I like. I don't like BNL
all that much, and therefore don't listen to them. I do listen to Pain, a
band
which was recommended to me by a very cool TMBG listener who is also on this
list. In fact... I wouldn't even be listening to TMBG if it weren't for my
best friend singing them all the time in the 7th grade and annoying me to
death. Perhaps it was just me trying to be like him when I decided that I
"liked" them. But I doubt it. Everything I'd listened to up until that point
had been so my brother and his friends would like me. After that, though, I
got into TMBG and went on from there, and what a wonderful trip it's been.
So.
My point is that I don't follow anybody. I think many people who respond to
this subject, if any more do, will TRUTHFULLY say the same for themselves.
Chad "We listen to whatever they heck we want to" MacFadd
Or you can call me Carey... or you can call me Al.
Hey, I listened to Paul Simon before so many other people ever did. I'm
special. >>
I just picked up George Carlin's 1990 CD "Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics"
and all this brings to mind for me is Carlin saying "The more serious a group
takes itself, the easier and more fun it is to make fun of them."
~Moose
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