Re: [sdre-l]: We're Gods/Touched for Something Greater?

1999-08-29 Thread Matthew Thomas Carlson
I don't even see the point in comparing these pop culture icons with bands like sunny day, considering that they are setting out to do completely different things. I mean, lots of these people don't even write their own music for christ's sake! And the ones that do, when they sit down and

Re: [sdre-l]: We're Gods/Touched for Something Greater?

1999-08-27 Thread janice yu
l.d. ferris wrote: They don't like to think? Why do you say that? Prove that they don't like to thing. Prove that Brittney Spears doesn't make them think. Or are SDRE throughts inherently superior to BS (how apropos!) thoughts? i think what he's trying to say is that Brittney Spears may

Re: [sdre-l]: We're Gods/Touched for Something Greater?

1999-08-25 Thread Mebigwig
In a message dated 8/23/99 9:11:07 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: perform, I literally found myself awestruck, staring at Jeremy and the way he handles, plays, and just makes amazing rhythms and chords and sounds with his guitar. It would really bring tears to my

Re: [sdre-l]: We're Gods/Touched for Something Greater?

1999-08-22 Thread Rombinorad
this thread is fucking insane, elitist crap. i mean, if you guys were talking about don caballero and how they were "too intelligent" for mainstream success, i might agree with you cos most people don't have the patience for 7 minute complex rock songs with strange time signatures and no

Re: [sdre-l]: We're Gods/Touched for Something Greater?

1999-08-20 Thread SpawnJD
Again, not attacking any person, but some ideas... Yes, actually I think it's alright for us to realize that music like SDRE is greater than usual music. Personally I have no problem with thinking that I'm better than everyone else because I am a musician, and listen to good

Re: [sdre-l]: We're Gods/Touched for Something Greater?

1999-08-20 Thread David Riester
While saying SDRE is too "intelligent" for mainstream is kinda overkill, I would say that (at least musically, not so much lyricly) they are a LITTLE over the heads of the general music-listening. The fact that some of the most talented musicians, and most knowledgeable ones I know both

[sdre-l]: We're Gods/Touched for Something Greater?

1999-08-19 Thread L.D. Ferris
This message is attacking an IDEA, not any PERSON I think the excuse that SDRE music is 'too intelligent' for the masses is more elitist hogwash, i.e. we are the chosen ones with the great intelligence and are somehow special or set apart from the masses because we like SDRE. Of course