From: Automatic digest processor To: Recipients of SOMMS digests Subject: SOMMS Digest - 11 Jan 1999 to 12 Jan 1999 Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 8:00 AM There are 2 messages totalling 64 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Jeff Buckley and the grammy's... (2) To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 07:34:32 -0500 From: Kim Subject: Re: Jeff Buckley and the grammy's... Well, if Chris is the one to accept the award, then that would be the only reason for me to watch yet another sad, poorly nominated Grammy's. I mean, out of the hundreds of nominations and categories, I think there are only three or four nominees who I actually like or respect: off the top of my head--Pearl Jam, Jeff Buckley, and John Fogerty. It was a sad, pathetic year for rock, and more generally, music this year. Music was dominated by bad hip-hop, 'monster' rock (ie Marilyn Manson, Orgy, etc.), trendy swing (which was good music until it became a fad for rich urbanites), and 'modern rock' (that would be you, Smash Mouth, Matchbox 20, etc.). And when the hell is Kiss going to just go away for ever? Well, enough my ranting. -Elliott http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/7915 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:49:03 -0500 From: Craig Griffith Subject: Re: Jeff Buckley and the grammy's... Kim wrote: It was a sad, pathetic year for rock, and more generally, music this year. Music was dominated by bad hip-hop, 'monster' rock (ie Marilyn Manson, Orgy, etc.), trendy swing (which was good music until it became a fad for rich urbanites), and 'modern rock' (that would be you, Smash Mouth, Matchbox 20, etc.). And when the hell is Kiss going to just go away for ever? Well, one looking at eMpTyV and the Grammies that liked good music played by talented people sure would think that 1998 was a bad year for music. However, as we know, there's one hell of a lot more going on outside the mainstream of the mainstream. Great albums of 1998, to name a few (which will probably never be mentioned anywhere near a Grammy context): Liquid Tension Experiment (self-titled); Explorer's Club "Age Of Impact; new live albums from Pearl Jam, Dream Theater, Fates Warning, and Rush; Sunny Day Real Estate "How It Feels To Be Something On"; live archive releases by various eras of King Crimson; ProjeKct Two "Space Groove", and no doubt many others I haven't heard. Mainstream music seldom is of very high quality. It happened during the late 60s, early to mid 70s, and the early 90s (when, as we know, Soundgarden had its day in the sun), and it has the potential to happen again. Whether or not it will is determined by the quality of artists out there (which I think to be relatively constant) and, more controllingly, the record industry's whims and desires to control the minds of the listening public, who, unlike us, only know what they hear on the radio or see on MTV. In the meanwhile, we turn off the tube and turn on the CD player and go on the Internet in search of what gives us so much joy: good music. -- Craig Griffith: High school student, guitar player, King of Craigland http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Dell/8509/ "I may make you feel, but I can't make you think" -Ian Anderson ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 11 Jan 1999 to 12 Jan 1999 ************************************************