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Re: (TV) It's Not 'fly-around' it's 'Around'



They're contentious, subjective, and silly (but sometimes fun). Totally agree...and ultimately they are designed to shift a few magazines to a specific audience. As far as lists go this doesn't tear my hair out although the Arctic Monkeys and Libertines escape me. Stone Roses tap into a particular time/place that leaves the music looking pretty exposed when removed from the context. (But still prefer them to /the /Stones). To indulge my subjectivity the glaring omissions for me are:

Au Pairs: Playing With a Different Sex

Go-Betweens: Send Me A Lullaby

Durutti Column: Return of the Durutti Column

The Blue Nile: A  Walk Across the Rooftops

The Teardrop Explodes: Kilimanjaro

Graham








Leo Casey wrote:
I'll preface this with I don't pay much attention to all-time greatest lists


whether it's music of movies. They're contentious, subjective, and silly (but sometimes fun).
in two years, or a year, when the tom verlaine buzz dies,

i should think we would no longer be hearing that television

fly-around at the no. 2 spot on such a list as this.

Edi---er, think you're missing the big (small?) picture---there is and never has been a Tom Verlaine buzz (unless you're referring to the electronic one recently at The Roxy Show)-except for the MM List and that other secret List. Even Television in the 70's played to fervent but very small Audiences (the Peter Gabriel tourdoesn't count). In Dec 1992 for Television's show tour in New Haven, Conn. only about 50
tickets were sold.

A guy who hadn't released an album since 1990 or toured in 19 years

Signs with a new label, releases 2 new albums-both of which will sell in US about 15,000-20,000 copies *combined*. Sure he's been doing a lot of interviews and playing shows, but his national profile in the media is still tiny compared to other musicians-----and his
live audiences have been (as always) rather small-- outside of NYC.

The album Marquee Moon place has nada to do with Verlaine's coming out
of seclusion in 2006 and granting a lot of interviews.

It's existence as a work of art and genius will endure no matter if it never appeared on any top-100 list.
it was the modern lovers, really, or maybe, that upset me,

or something. or perhaps the whole list. perhaps the lack of black people,

I would put The Modern Lovers a lot lower than #42 :>)

perhaps the lack of black people,..

I hope below doesn't stir up a hornet's nest.

Other than Bo Diddley or Chuck Berry (or Sly Stone or James Brown ---although I'd argue not really rock) who would You include BB King? That's the Blues. 'black people' invented rock n, roll (or at least its direct antecedent), but other than Hendrix and Lee (The Isely Brothers? Earth Wind and Fire? LL Cool J?) I've never thought 'rock' [as typified by the examples on that 100-greatest list] was a genre that particularly interested 'black people'/musicians during last 25 odd years and with rap's/hip-hop's hegemony I rest my case.
yr friend,

proserpine, guardianette of the dead

the last slum goddess,

And hey-- with a moniker sign-off like that I wouldn't go around
accusing others of being pretentious.

http://www.usefultrivia.com/mythology/proserpine.html
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