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From:
Peter Hollo
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Date:
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:21:58 +1100
Subject:
(idm) Re: GENRE BASHING
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wells <s0ewoliv@titan.vcu.edu> wrote:
quoted 3 lines Not. Gospel is awful. All of it. Every last rare basement-recorded> Not. Gospel is awful. All of it. Every last rare basement-recorded > out-of-print Aretha Franklin LP. White gospel's bad, black gospel's bad, > every race in between whoever sought to create gospel- well, it's bad too.
Wells is right. It pains me to say so, Wells being Wells, but he's right. Gospel sometimes makes for good samples - DJ Shadow for instance makes good use of it sometimes. So does James Brown, even though his own stuff is deadly boring. *ducks* -- Peter Hollo raven@fourplay.com.au http://www.fourplay.com.au/me.html FourPlay - Eclectic Electric String Quartet http://www.fourplay.com.au Raven: experimental electronic http://www.fourplay.com.au/sound.html "Of course, dance music can be a music where you lie on your back and your brain cells dance" -Michael Karoli of Can, quoted in Wire mag. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org