Re: SNOBS

R. William Morris (amorris@mail.cedar-rapids.k12.ia.us)
Sat, 1 Jul 1995 12:00:25 +0000


Well, over-commercialized or not, Cantaloop was a spiffy little tune if you
ask me. We shouldn't judge a group or an artist by how commercialized they
are, but wheather or not thier work is good music.

Do you ever notice that a song is great UNTILL it is over-commercialized?
The song's the same as it always was, so what happens?

Hmmmm??
Will of the Corn

>> Once upon a time a long time ago you too may have just been getting
>> into whatever it was you got into before acid-jazz. Everybody has to start
>> somewhere. Up until last Christmas I was heavily into indie-rock-grunge
Nirvana
>> type stuff. Fortunately I have grown-up and started listening to music with
>> more than one-dimension. No doubt many of this list's subscribers will tell a
>> similar story. I also listen to things which are not acid-jazz and even have
>> friends who haven't heard of the genre (at least until I started whittering
>> on about it).
>> If, on introduction to this holiest of grooves (acid-jazz) my
>> enquiries had been
>> rebuked as snobbishly as you put down Mr. Dundon, no doubt I would think,
>> "The people who listen to acid-jazz are all up their own arses"
>>
>> Which in some cases may be true...#
>
> Hmmmm... I really don't have the time to respond to this in the
>way that I would like to - and I've responded privately to the individual
>who originally posted - not only apologizing (to some extent) but also
>giving my reasoning behind the comment and recommending some releases
>that may further his musical tastes.
>
> What it comes down to (for me) is a REAL distate for the
>commercialization of a musical style that I hold very near and dear to my
>heart. I was spinning in a few places in Rochester NY at the time of the
>bippity-bippity-bop craze - and I had been playing the track fairly
>frequently for the people there (along with a large assortment of other
>aj style tracks) trying to introduce a style that _definately_ didn't
>exist in the collective minds of partygoers in Rochester. But it was not
>until the record companies pushed this product that it became something
>of a phenomenon - causing me to kind of resent this catchy little number.
>
> I don't have anything against US3 (I guess) - but I do have a
>problem with the over-commercialization of *Any* genre. I suppose it's
>inevitable - but I don't have to like it. How does this pertain to my
>supposed 'snobishness' one might wonder... Well - I think that there is
>a certain level of sophistication on this list - both in postings and in
>the general feel of what is discussed here and that just seemed kinda out
>of place to me - granted I *should* have kept my mouth shut - but I was
>flying through the 200+ messages I get a day and was a little distracted
>by this request. Call it a personal problem with US3 & the record
>industry - rather than any kind of bite on the individual.
>
>my apologies to anyone i may have offended.
>
>peace.
>kevin.
>
>