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

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Wed Jun 2 20:58:47 PDT 2010


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From: <fnarf at comcast.net>
> 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.
>
Then what the hell are you doing on *78*-?!?! You won't find much punk, rap, 
hip-hop,
et cetera on 78!! 




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