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1996-06-15 07:43mixmaster morris>idm Thursday, 13 June 1996 Volume 01 : Number 553 > >(idm) Underworld and the Daily Teleg

From:: mixmaster morris <morris@space.demon.co.uk>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 07:43:14 +0000
Subject:: (idm) The rich getting richer

quoted 3 lines idm Thursday, 13 June 1996 Volume 01 : Number 553

>idm Thursday, 13 June 1996 Volume 01 : Number 553 > >(idm) Underworld and the Daily Telegraph??

quoted 8 lines From: ROWLAND ATKINSON <R.G.Atkinson@greenwich.ac.uk>

>From: ROWLAND ATKINSON <R.G.Atkinson@greenwich.ac.uk> >Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 13:38:24 GMT >Subject: (idm) Underworld and the Daily Telegraph?? > >Was merrily watching tv last night when to my surprise and horror I >found myself listening to Underworld's Pearls Girl as a jingle for >the Telegraph's tory spreadsheet. Having had the Sabres of P. for the >Times what next....?

if that's true that's pretty disgusting for a band that claim to be socialist (i seem to remember ...) i hope they both have a good excuse comical bros + microsoft? ha ha ha ha ha that's not sick thats funny a match made in heaven some would say it looks like every computer game, film, tv show, advert, t-shirt, cd-rom, mag cover, on the planet will be full of boys own bands again this summer how do they do it? ps thats a rhetorical question ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- A SITE FOR SORE EARS - The Mixmaster Morris Homepage http://iuma.southern.com/MMM/homepage.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------

1996-06-15 18:57Zenon M. Feszczak>> >>Was merrily watching tv last night when to my surprise and horror I >>found myself li

From:: Zenon M. Feszczak <feszczak@sas.upenn.edu>
To:: mixmaster morris <morris@space.demon.co.uk>, <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 14:57:36 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:: Re: (idm) The rich getting richer
Reply to:: (idm) The rich getting richer

quoted 18 lines Was merrily watching tv last night when to my surprise and horror I

>> >>Was merrily watching tv last night when to my surprise and horror I >>found myself listening to Underworld's Pearls Girl as a jingle for >>the Telegraph's tory spreadsheet. Having had the Sabres of P. for the >>Times what next....? > > if that's true that's pretty disgusting > for a band that claim to be socialist (i seem to remember ...) > i hope they both have a good excuse > comical bros + microsoft? ha ha ha ha ha that's not sick thats funny > a match made in heaven some would say > > it looks like every computer game, film, tv show, > advert, t-shirt, cd-rom, mag cover, > on the planet will be full of boys own bands again this summer how >do they do it? > ps thats a rhetorical question > - The Mixmaster Morris -

MM - Nothing should shock us any more. We really should be completely jaded and cynical by now. The vapid mortgage-supporting urge to sell out one's principles hit rock bottom when Johnny Lydon/Rotten's voice became the soundtrack to an automobile ad - for a doubtlessly non-trivial stack of currency. Of course, Sir Rotten, of "Anarchy in the U.K.", perhaps more appropriately labeled "Opportunism in the Wake of Mounting Expenses", could always blame his turncoat style on his sometime guru Malcolm McLaren, the epitome of the "philosophy is only phasion" lifestyle. Auteurs, poseurs, richer than I, spit on their audiences - but I still like the music. Is it self-hatred, or should art (a term which begs the question in this context, but so be it) be separated from the artist? After all, Picasso treated his many female acquaintances in a less than enlightened manner, but you can't fault the misguided mysogonist on his unerring sense of color, now can you? Perhaps art theft is our only recourse. Enough for now. I just realized what a brilliant name Single Cell Orchestra is. God, I'm slow sometimes, especially for an unrecognized (not to mention unrealized) genius. Zenon M. Feszczak Dream Misinterpreter

(idm) The rich getting richer