[atlantaprog] Re: Fodder for conversation...

Maybe not, but I suspect that's the motivation-- a juvenile attempt at being 
'provocative'.  I actually read Blender [sheepish grin-- only $7.97 per year], 
purely as an attempt at market research, to keep up with the current trends and 
new names... sort of an inoculation against ivory-tower calcification.  It 
serves a purpose, but its smug, self-righteous groupthink (and near-worship of 
all things rap) are only slightly less nauseating than Rolling Stone.  They 
don't seem to care if something's good, only that it's 'hot'.

As for the Beatles, Revolver and Rubber Soul are my favorites, but I'd never 
say they are as important as SPLHCB or Abbey Road.  Given Revolver's attitude 
toward prog, it would have made more sense to pick on Thick as a Brick or 2112 
or maybe a Rick Wakeman album... or to leave prog alone and use the space to 
pick on the mook-rockers instead.

I did like that they singled out melisma for scorn though.  ;-)

BK
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Jeff Blanks <jblanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Getting people pissed off enough 
to read the rest of this 
>combination of idiocy and obviousness.  Yawn!  ;-)

  Nobody who'd read such a party-line mag as *Blender* would 
be pissed off by it, I suspect.  After all, *everyone knows* the 
Beatles' best albums are *Rubber Soul* and *Revolver*, right?



                
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