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:
quoted 55 lines air supply and others of that ilk
>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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