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It's funny that we consider older musicians to be whores when they try (struggle?) to maintain a sense of cultutal currency and while we (culturally speaking we) deride other musicians for not changing. So I guess it's better for Bowie to do nothing and never play live again or never release another album?

quoted 18 lines At 02:09 PM 8/4/2002, Sean Horton wrote:

>At 02:09 PM 8/4/2002, Sean Horton wrote: >>Bowie pulled the same shite with Nine in Nails. They even did a duet >>(terrible). Nothing is more pathetic than an aging rocker (visionary) >>riding the coat tails of latest trend, something Bowie has done since >>disco. > >Not true. It's something he did long before disco. He used to be a folkie, >then a rocker, then a freak, etc. >I guess I would argue that there would have been no Trenties had there been >no Bowie. At least Bowie is a classy whore. > > jeff > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

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At 02:29 PM 8/4/2002, donna summer wrote:

quoted 5 lines It's funny that we consider older musicians to be whores when they try

>It's funny that we consider older musicians to be whores when they try >(struggle?) to maintain a sense of cultutal currency and while we >(culturally speaking we) deride other musicians for not changing. So I >guess it's better for Bowie to do nothing and never play live again or >never release another album?

Not by me. I maintain that he's only doing what he has always done - be a chameleon, and quite well, thank you. I think that some people became familiar with him during a certain period when he was popular (the one in which he probably had the greatest success in terms of being "big") and so when he does what he has always done, they see it as a loss of his "originality". Stand him next to Jagger and he looks quite relevant. And I've heard far less acceptable attempts to incorporate the electronic cultural currency into an old-line popstar's playlist than "Earthling". jeff ...just don't get me started on Jeff Lynne :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

At 02:29 PM 8/4/2002, donna summer wrote:

quoted 5 lines It's funny that we consider older musicians to be whores when they try

>It's funny that we consider older musicians to be whores when they try >(struggle?) to maintain a sense of cultutal currency and while we >(culturally speaking we) deride other musicians for not changing. So I >guess it's better for Bowie to do nothing and never play live again or >never release another album?

What I found quite interesting along those lines was the McCartney/Youth "Fireman" project. jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

At 03:44 PM 8/4/02 -0500, you wrote:

quoted 2 lines What I found quite interesting along those lines was the McCartney/Youth

>What I found quite interesting along those lines was the McCartney/Youth >"Fireman" project.

"Liverpool Sound Collage" is also a pretty damn good album --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org