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Re: Chris' Response

"jg900" <jg900 at bright_net> sez:
>chris (mr.) emery says,
>>I've also noticed that GDBD appeals more to girls. (and guys like jg)
[...]

>what'dya mean you try and try, but just can't get through good doggie?  how
>tough can it be,  even if it's your least favourite?  

*shrug*  What can I say?  It bores me.  There are some good tracks on
there that I don't mind listening to, but I have trouble sitting
through the whole album at one listen.  Keep in mind that this is
coming from me - one of my all time favorite albums consists of four
20-minute songs, so it's not an attention span thing.

>i have a least favourite too,  probably patience,  but still (oh, sorry jessyka!!) but
>still i ~enjoy~ that album and it's a pleasure, not a chore to sit through.

Like I said, I enjoy many of the songs on there...just not all at
once.  Typically, I'll get halfway through it, and then get bored, and
pop in some King Crimson, or KMFDM, or some electric Miles Davis.

>try harder, buddy chris.   or let's extrapolate...the new album they're
>working on gets released, and it's more doggie-style than Eve-style,  as i
>figure it will be.  Gonna get on board,  or gonna go away to greener
>pastures,  or be like those yukky contemporaries of mine who still have a
>constant appetite for Boston, Bad Co. Lynyrd Skynrd, et al,   and pretty
>much tune out anything made on or after the time when "modern rock"  or "new
>wave"  or whatever they tagged it back then?    If you stop enjoying OtR
>post-Eve, it'll be just like us Boomers who can't step away from their
>"classic rock" stations, except we'll have to  time-shift to allow for the
>difference in years between people your age and the people i'm talking
>about.  the idea remains the same, however.  something like "living in the
>past"

As I've stated before here on this very list, I liked the direction
that the new songs were going.   When I heard them at concerts, they
seemed to be leaving the GDBD stage behind.   I can easily view it as
a slump, and nothing more.   For example, my favorite band, Yes,
released an album that I don't like very much called _Tormato_.   I
like some of the songs, but find it a chore to sit through a whole
listen of it.   This album came sandwiched between a very good album
_Going For The One_, and my all time favorite Yes album _Drama_.   So,
to steal from your REM analogy that follows, it's *not* the end of the
world as we know it.

>i can't believe i just glossed over that when i read it yesterday, but it
>struck me at work today what you said.  Not that OtR is some kind of god to
>deify or blaspheme.  you may like or dislike anything you want.  it just
>seemed like a rather extreme position to take on our favourite.....oh, wait,
>i take it all back.  i just thought of R.E.M.  and how anything from
>(inclusive) Out of Time is kinda throw -away in my opinion.  ( Dearly
>Beloved, on the other hand finds the post-Out of Time albums to be her
>favourites.)    Well, still,  they aren't unlistenable,  and i'm not finding
>myself forced to eject 'em.   (just gimme __document_ or __dead letter
>office__ anytime).

I knew I loved your dearly beloved for a reason.  _Automatic For The
People_ is my personal fav.  

>hope we don't lose you in a few months, Chris.

Not a chance.   You guys aren't that lucky.

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