[78-L] How Bing Crosby morphed into Frank Sinatra.!!!!!! [FWD]

[simmonssomer]

Thanks Dave...you beat me to it.
Ten four.
Fnarfing off.

Al S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] How Bing Crosby morphed into Frank Sinatra.!!!!!! [FWD]


>
> Don't let the doorknob hitcha. This is without a doubt the rudest bunch of 
> flaming idiocy I've seen since that moron whose sun rose and set on Glenn 
> Miller was turfed out of the group.
>
>
>
> Obviously there are people out there who believe there's some merit in 
> music being created today. They wouldn't know Mozart or Jerome Kern or 
> melody or good lyrics from a hole in the ground and as long as they keep 
> deafening themselves with earbuds and don't blast it out at me from an 
> open jeep, that's fine.
>
>
>
> While you're at it, why do you hide behind a pseudonym? Identify yourself 
> before you call us stupid and illiterate.
>
>
>
> dl
>
>> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:53:01 +0000
>> From: fnarf at comcast.net
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] How Bing Crosby morphed into Frank Sinatra.!!!!!! 
>> [FWD]
>>
>> Not to put too fine a point on it, but your comment here is stupid and 
>> illiterate.
>>
>> Is LCD Soundsystem trash? Are the Decembrists "cr*p"? Have you ever heard 
>> of these names? Do you know anything except what you see on "American 
>> Idol"? Not to mention the wide world of popular music out there in other 
>> languages. Los Tigres Del Norte, anyone?
>>
>> Old white people don't know how to listen to modern music, it's a fact. 
>> You're PAST DATE. You could spend the rest of your life listening to the 
>> production of Timbaland and never hear a damn thing. Culture, history, 
>> sensitivity, education -- that all stops in what, 1945? 1970? Where's 
>> your "I'm too old to listen to anything more, it confuses me" cutoff?
>>
>> Cutting edge punk? What the hell? Punk is 35 years old. Is James Blunt 
>> sh*t? Well, thank god there weren't any sh*t artists in the 30s, or the 
>> 50s.
>>
>> You people just keep going on talking about your little hobby without me. 
>> I've got better things to do than listen to the likes of Martha here, and 
>> Steve Goddamn Barr. Don't talk to me about culture; you people have no 
>> culture. You've only got some old records. You're all dead inside.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "martha" <MLK402 at verizon.net>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 1:00:41 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] How Bing Crosby morphed into Frank Sinatra.!!!!!! 
>> [FWD]
>>
>> Nice little PC commentary, but "here we go again" like Hell ! Too "old"?
>> "Don't know how?" Since WHEN do ears forget "how" to listen, or the brain 
>> to
>> appreciate? You, in fact, are the spectacularly, stupidly wrong one. The
>> making and appreciation of popular music has been declining, if not 
>> already
>> dead, for decades. The cr*p being foisted on everyone today is nothing 
>> but
>> ignorant garbage, and utterly devoid of culture, history, sensitivity, 
>> and
>> education. It IS bad, and it IS trash .
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>
>> > --------------------------------------------------
>> > From: <fnarf at comcast.net>
>>
>> >>
>> >> Here we go again. Your value judgement (no good music today) is
>> >> ludicrous,
>> >> and your factual statement (everything today is 1962 James Brown) is 
>> >> not
>> >> just wrong but spectacularly and stupidly wrong. James Brown's 1962 
>> >> riffs
>> >> etc. are not even particularly evident today, though you'll 
>> >> occasionally
>> >> hear some of his 1972 ones. But not that often.
>> >>
>> >> Just because you're old and don't know how to listen to modern music 
>> >> or
>> >> even where to find it doesn't mean it's bad. "Urban dance" as a 
>> >> category
>> >> description is about 25 years out of date, and apparently so are you.
>> >>
>> >> It does the appreciation of older music no favors to denigrate the 
>> >> new.
>>
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