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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Boston's Hit Radio station (Is Springsteen losing it?)
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Date: Mon, 28-May-84 07:39:44 EDT
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	From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)

	   > Listening to "all hit" radio stations that play from a hit
	   > list seems to be the most limiting thing that a music
	   > affectionado could do.

>	Why?  Some people *like* top 40!  That is like saying that programming
>	in one language is the most limiting thing a computer scientist can do.
>	If it suits him, why care?

That's an incredibly inane analogy!  With a decent programing language
you can write an infinite (Aleph Null) number of programs, but 40 songs
is 40 songs!

No one is saying that one shouldn't be allowed to pretend they've had a
lobotomy, but some of think that there is something greater that can be
attained in the musical artistic domain than 40 (and mostly 10)
repetitive, unoriginal, sappy, comercial-jingle-like songs with no
lyrical or musical value played over and over again.  And maybe we think
it's pretty damned sad when that's all 98% of the populous wants.
-- 
				-Doug Alan
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				 Nessus@MIT-MC

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