And Suzie will still be obsessed with Woody.......
YES!! I will be!!!!
I love him....ahh sweet Woody....
Does anyone here IN REALITY think there will ever be a ska revival??????
Cheers,
Suzie
"People say that I'm crazy.."
Well of course I bloody well am!!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: Elizabeth Raskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Madness Newsletter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [total-madness] The Death of Pop.
> >but this is all part of the flux and flow of the music bizz - kinda
reminds
> >me of the late 70's when everything was manufactured disco - the world
was
> >crying out for a change - and BAM punk sorted it - followed quickly by
> >2-TOne (HURRAH !!) - so lets hope that this kinda change happens, but i'm
a
> >cynic and suspect that the majors have such a stranglehold that nothing
like
> >that would ever happen again :(
> >
> But it did happen again in the US, at the end of the 80's when everything
> was New Kids on the Block and their clones. Grunge came out as a
> reaction to the prefab pop of the day. The big diference, I think, is
> that the labels didn't see punk coming and reacted so slowly to it that
> punk maintained it's "integrity" (until recently - IMHO). With grunge,
> the labels recognised it as the new punk, so to speak, and started
> signing every sound-alike band with even a smidge of talet, and killed
> the whole thing.
>
>
> My preditions for the future are:
>
> - Some radical new style of music will come out as a reaction to generic
> pop
>
> - The labels will jump on the new style and kill it with their
> enthusiasim
>
> - Bands will start selling all their live shows on the internet ala Pearl
> Jam
>
> - Madstocks V, VI, VII, VIII, IV and X will each in sucession break the
> sales record for live recordings
>
> - Al (president?) Gore will claim to have invented music. Tipper will
> realize that he is therefore responsible for "Darling Nikki" and beat him
> to death with a role of "parental advisory" stickers. She will later
> claim the beating was for educational purposes and not censorship (sorry,
> I'm still bitter)
>
> - Bands will sell their studio albums, song by song, on the internet.
> Prices per song will decrease based on quantity i.e. 1st song-$4,
> 2nd-$3.50, 3rd-$3 and todays b-sides will be free bonus tracks, so people
> will still be able to buy singles and albums for about the same price as
> now.
>
> - Rob H will buy his copy of OSB without "Chipmunks are Go".
>
> - Peter G. will turn every Madness album into a 3-4 disk set with single
> versions, foreign versions, and live versions of each song, and b-sides
> of every single.
>
> - New bands will realize with current technology the only purpose record
> labels serve is marketing and since they don't market new bands, only
> established money-makers (except Madness, it seems) they aren't even good
> for that. The lablels will begin to founder like dinosaurs in tar pits.
>
> - Richard Branson will *actually* be reduced to selling hats outside
> Buckingham Palace
>
>
> You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one...
>
> Cheers!
> - Elizabeth
>
>
> -
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