pop may be in decline at the moment but 1 or 2 bands wont lie down
catch the selecter at either band on the wall in manchester this sat or in
shefield at the corporation next thursday both nights have the rather good
fat jabba as support
keep ska alive - watch it live
stretchy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [total-madness] The Death of Pop.
> 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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