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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Oh, well.
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Date: Sat, 10-Dec-83 22:58:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 10 22:58:07 1983
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Andy Gibb doesn't make albums any more.  His popularity pretty much
ended after the Saturday Night Fever craze.  Air Supply has a greatest
hits album out now with one new song "Making Love out of Nothing at All"
which was produced by Jim Steinman.  The single did better than Air
Supply's last few.  

I get the feeling that a lot of people on the net do not like mushy love
songs or ballads, and accuse Journey of that.  Others criticize Loverboy
for their pop commercialism.  Well, I'll buy that, but it doesn't make
the bands BAD.  If you ever listened to "Working for the Weekend" or
"Hot Girls in Love" as you were driving home from work on a Friday
afternoon, it sure lifts your spirits in spite of the fact that the
lyrics are not especially creative or meaningful.  Now there are some
extremes, and "Cum on Feel the Noize" probably ought to be played less
on the air than it is.  Yet in still, most pop music tends to make
people feel good, and that's why they buy it.  It's not really a
question of taste, more of preference.  

--greg
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