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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: I Can't Believe What I Just Read
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 11:05:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 11:05:08 1985
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> A high percentage of the sentiments you have expressed in net.music,
> especially the part about "hating Rock 'n Roll".

I said that I didn't like "Rock 'n Roll", not that I didn't like "Rock".
But some people say that some of the music I like, like the VU, are Rock
'n Roll.  So maybe I should change that to say that I don't like
mainstream Rock 'n Roll.  I don't think I can say that I don't like
mainstream Rock (even though most of it is pretty awful), since The
Beatles are now considered mainstream....

> The Beatles are the ANTITHESIS of bands one would listen to in a dark
> room with headphones.  They were a R&R band and a SOCIAL phenomenon.

Early Beatles, maybe.  Psychedelic period Beatles is *perfect* for that.

>> The Beatles nearly single-handedly pulled the world out of Rock
>> 'n Roll.  

> Nothing could be further from the truth; the Beatles SHOWED the world
> rock 'n roll.

The Beatles didn't invent Rock and Roll -- they invented "Rock".  Rock
and Roll existed long before The Beatles.

>> The only reason "Sargent Pepper's" wasn't second or so on my list is
>> because I've been listening to it since I was four....

> This sounds like an important reason for ranking it high on your list.
> It was definitely in my top five.

Well, I took the question to mean "What are my current favorites?"  Not,
"Which have had the biggest influence on me?"  In any case, it was in my
top ten even though I haven't listened to it for a long time.

				"Goo goo ga joob"

				 Doug Alan
				  nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)