Xref: utzoo alt.rock-n-roll:2794 rec.music.misc:39024 news.groups:16270 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!amdcad!hoptoad!tim From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll,rec.music.misc,news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: rec.music.pfloyd Message-ID: <9587@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 10 Jan 90 06:55:32 GMT References: <9504@hoptoad.uucp> <9529@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco Lines: 20 In article TAR@MAINE.BITNET (Thom Rounds) writes: > We are Pink Floyd fans, not Kate Bush fans. Extended listening to Pink >Floyd tends to broaden the mind. I'm not saying *only* Pink Floyd has the mind- >opening effect, in case anyone wishes to flame me. I would like to suggest that >you go through any Pink Floyd discussions in other groups. There is alot of >open opinions, none of them all positive or all negative. The only thing that >would be lost in rec.music.pfloyd is discussions about other bands. However, I >am quite sure that other bands *would* be brought up as cross-references. Very >few 'pin-heads' listen to Pink Floyd because they can't comprehend it. Almost >all of the Pink Floyd listeners that I know on this planet have their reserv- >ations about Floyd or any of it's performers. I see no 'worship'. This is a good example of the kind of holier-than-thou, aren't-we-wonderful foolishness that I was predicting. Always glad to be proven right.... -- Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com "Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." -- Oscar Wilde