On Thu, 23 Mar 1995, Michel Battaglia wrote:
quoted 6 lines this totally pisses me off....if (as i've heard) the song that DD cover> this totally pisses me off....if (as i've heard) the song that DD cover
> is 'white lines' then they can fuck off -- here's the Furious Five
> rallying against the thing that is hurting their communities - and the
> Duran covering a song that is against *everything they stood for* in the
> eighties - mainly greed and abuse of cocaine and wealth. Duran Duran
> *suck* for this move. Hypocrites.
Two points and an obIDM:
(1) Duran Duran didn't stand for anything in the eighties. They were a
pop music band. They still are. Their output is fluff. (I happen to like
them, but I like pop-music-fluff sometimes.)
(2) Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel readily admit to having been cocaine
addicts when they wrote and recorded this song originally. Hypocrites?
ObIDM: Thanks to all who recommended the St. Etienne single to me. It's
very enjoyable, though the Dust Bros. mix was a little disappointing.
- Adam J Weitzman
Individual, Inc.
weitzman@individual.com
"Music, music, everywhere, but not a drop to drink." - Little Annie