RE: (TV) Hitchcock

[bedwellm@WellsFargo.COM]

Well, heck...if he influenced Pavement and GBV, he can't be all bad. Tho, I
think Wire had more of a hand in Pavement's development then Robyn.

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-----Original Message-----
From: eric s gregory [mailto:esgregory@uswest.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 8:10 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) Hitchcock


fair enough.
i wasn't really calling yr taste or interest in hitchcock into
question...just
getting a bug outta my head cos he's kind of an infuriating gnat whom i keep
stumbling up against, especially in indierock circles (i can see his legacy
in
bands like pavement, gbv, etc, etc.).

Maurice Rickard wrote:

> If you've listened to half the solo stuff, you've obviously made
> yourself listen to a lot more of it than I have, and I can see where
> his shtick would get way old after a while.  I think he's talented,
> though, and he does pull the odd gem out of whatever he's mining.
> Would I want to listen to the whole catalog back to back?   Uh, no.
> Say he's on par with [usual list of great songwriters]?  No.  Bit of
> a fraud?  Maybe.  But I will take _Moonlight_, _Trains_, and a
> fistful of other songs and call 'em good.
>
> -Maurice
>
> At 7:50 AM -0700 5/31/00, eric s gregory wrote:
> >hey, i am a soft boys fan....& i've given maybe half the solo stuff a
shot
> >(& as "prolific" as he is, that's really saying something).
> >but going back, i'm realizing that it was the way the soft boys rocked &
> >rolled that appealed.
> >hitchcock seemed to write to the drive as well, esp. on "underwater
> >moonlight" ("i wanna destroy you", "insanely jealous")
> >what ultimately boggles is that this guy's held in high esteem as a
> >SONGWRITER (????) by many many people with a modicum of cranial power.
> >i mean, i'm not too keen on hierarchization & if you happen to think
gordon
> >lightfoot's as good as or better a songwriter as bob dylan, i'd defend yr
> >choice even if i didn't necessarily agree.
> >but for some reason, i find it bothersome when people push hitchcock as
> >some great scribe...
> >he's a bit of a fraud, isn't he?
>
> --
> Maurice Rickard
> http://mauricerickard.com/
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