900 to many then, methinks ;0
eric hill wrote:
quoted 63 lines i can't help but think that in, i dunno, 1978, there could have been about
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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