From eric hill Sent Fri, Sep 3rd 1999, 17:46
From eric hill Sent Fri, Sep 3rd 1999, 17:46
i can't help but think that in, i dunno, 1978, there could have been about 900 people in the world telling their friends, "you have GOT to hear this band called 'Air Supply.'" eric On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Andrew Duke wrote: >air supply and others of that ilk >(night ranger, reo speedwagon, etc, etc >etc) were 80s saccharine popsters that >people who had only AM radio to listen >to growing up (me! me!) had to endure >if they wanted to hear some "music". they >sorta epitomize bad 80s music. i think in >the movie "the wedding singer" that was >the song they used to get this point across. >acts like air supply, for me at least, were >part of the reason i busted my ass to get >hunting for some "real" music that i figured >just had to be out there (which is quite a >task finding when you grow up in a small >town of 500 or so people till the age of >17 and then you finally break free for the >big city of halifax!) hope this helps ;) >andrew duke :) > >Irene McC wrote: > >> A little ad caught my eye in the Carl Craig cover issue of Wire >> No 185 (July 99). >> >> On p86 there's an advert for Drop Beat which reads: >> >> "FUCK IDM >> AUTECHRE IS AIR SUPPLY >> ------------------------------------------- >> >> 8 Hood rmx ep >> 9 Kaman Leung EP >> 10 FM ep (not yet) >> 11 Kit Clayton Mini LP" >> ------------------------------------------- >> >> followed by Drop Beat's contact info. >> >> Yes? Does this make good advertising? What is it saying exactly? >> And who can remember what Air Supply put out? Peter Hollo : >> weren't they Ozzies? >> >> Questioningly yours ... :-) >> >> I >> * > >-- >Andrew Duke's In The Mix show590:Jamie Lidell >& Wooly/589:Vogel & Dr. Rendezvous/588:Wang & >Vaz/587:Theorem & Baby Pop/586:Sicko & Nova/ >listen on Cognition: http://www.techno.ca/cognition > > >