From AudioPig Sent Fri, Sep 3rd 1999, 18:02
From AudioPig Sent Fri, Sep 3rd 1999, 18:02
around .'85 i recall seeing an ad in forced exposure or some mag like that
for a Peach Of Immortality album called "R.E.M. is Air Supply", and the copy
read like the Drop Beat ad...
"Fuck (something, forget what...maybe 'pop'? dunno). R.E.M. is Air
Supply"
i thought it was funny anyway...
-----Original Message-----
From: eric hill <xxxxx@xxxx.xxx>
To: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Date: Friday, September 03, 1999 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: (idm) and I quote "FUCK IDM"
>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
>>> *
>>
>>--
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>>& Wooly/589:Vogel & Dr. Rendezvous/588:Wang &
>>Vaz/587:Theorem & Baby Pop/586:Sicko & Nova/
>>listen on Cognition: http://www.techno.ca/cognition
>>
>>
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