From cognition Sent Fri, Sep 3rd 1999, 17:54
From cognition Sent Fri, Sep 3rd 1999, 17:54
900 to many then, methinks ;0 eric hill wrote: > 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 > > > > > > -- 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