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quoted 13 lines In a message dated 97-09-25 19:34:16 EDT, you write:

>In a message dated 97-09-25 19:34:16 EDT, you write: > ><< Bjork: 100 'producers' and 'collaborators.' 10 zillion dollars. > > Cylob: One geezer in his bedroom. And he has a day job. > > You tell me who deserves more respect. > >> >Erm...no offense Gonz, but why can't they be equally deserving of respect? > The way I see it, they're both making good music w/the stuff available to >them..... > >--Matt

i dont see how you can even compare what the two do. cylob is a producer/engineer or whatever he fancies himself to be. bjork is a singer/songwriter. the later usualy have some sort of reliance upon the former to serve as "vehicles" for their songwriting/singing. at least bjork has some dignity about her and isnt a parisitic leach like david bowie or trent reznor who cash in on the innovativeness of other people such as cylob (or whoever) just to hustle some records. and i dont think id be to quick to acuse mark bell, plaid, et al of "whoring" themselves under the service of madame bjork - as for tricky and that massey guy well... ;) besides, that cylob fool has two work twice as hard as bjork as a "wage slave", while bjork as managed to emancipate herself quite nicely...and i get the impression that bjork has just as much control over her music as cylob does his. "the world is full of willing people...those willing to work and those willing to let them do so" - a. nonomous