i prefer "electrovomit" ----- Original Message ----- From: "marc christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "sean deason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:28 AM Subject: (313) How to kill electroclash (was: swayzak)
> Instead of accepting the term "electroclash" (which has obviously > allowed this thing to go on way longer than the music's 15-minutes of > fame one-note humor deserves) why don't we steal a term from > architecture and call it "Electro Revival" in the breathiest > upper-class british accent we can muster. sort of like a house -- > you know, it's a tudor Reh-VI-vahhhhl, dee-ah. (Remember, a tudor > revival bears about as much similarity to tudor architecture as > electroclash bears to the 80's as many of us lived it...) > > I think the term "Revival" might be extra fun too, for Detroiters -- > if intoned with a fake British accent, it might have the amusing > effect of reminding folks of the dreadfully affected pseudo-british > accents some locals took on during the early-to-mid 80's > > yeesh. two weeks of that kind of treatment, and electroclash will be > gone. RIP. > > -m. > > > > At 7:15 AM -0500 12/17/02, sean deason wrote: > >sean "lived the 80's, no need to recreate them" deason
