Re: (idm) Orbital

From jeremy roethel
Sent Fri, Oct 17th 1997, 02:53

On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 xxxxxx.xxxxxx@xx.xxx.xx wrote:

> > I can't see how Orbital could be described as a pop act before 'The
> Saint'.
> > Any tracks in particular that you'd call pop (other than 'The Saint')?
> 
> The whole Snivilisation and Insides albums are pop.
> What is pop ?!
> 
> Rob
> 

Sniv and In Sides are pop? Uhm, I always thought of pop as more of the
music you'd hear 3 dozen times a day on the "#1 hit music radio station"
in between the various advertisemnets for euro-wannabe dance clubs and
station contests...

To the point of "The Saint" being considered pop.. I have to question
whether this is accurate. I think "too mainstream" is what people are
driving at, almost to the point of drawing up similar distaste to the
repetative boringness of Daft Punk. Ugh.

WHOA.. here we have it. Some girls just walked by, the same girls who play
nothing but R. Kelly and Spice Girls and DMB all day long, and Petrol
found their ears. Both found it necessary to stop, enter the room, and not
only priase the music, but ask who it was by. 

"Hrm. We've never heard of Orbital" - Pop rockers. Go figure.


 .jeremy.

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