OFF: Andy's dodgy tastes in music (retitled for Andy)

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> Nah, Meat Loaf's for kids, just like those funny books you read! >:))

"Kids"! Hah! Old man! :) What was that about the current Sin City?
Don't try to tell me THAT's a, errr, mature funnybook! S'all noir-formula,
done to death, the geezers fall for shallow style. Heh.

And so what if Meat Loaf's for kids - aren't SPICE GIRLS?

BTW, who are the new group who've modelled themselves after SG over
there, but are sexier/younger/better (appearantly :)?? Hmmm?

>You can't be serious about really enjoying Meat Loaf, can you??  You
ARE???

Sure. I mean, its extremely cheezy, juvenile, whatever. Lots of stuff on
that
album is awful, some is totally brilliant. IMO :) I was a little kid when
it
came out and... kids don't care about "cool" because they don't know/care
what
that means (and some never will ;) and judge stuff purely on its own
merits. So
I still stick to that cos I like it and I'd be a hypocrite to deny that in
the name of some "grownup cool", whatever (like lotsa things ;). SURE
there's
layers of irony too in its appeal to me NOW, and I fooled ya *abit* there.
Sorta like a glass onion y'know, don't mess with it - I know I like it, and
that's
all I need to know sir! ;)

But I never really listen to Queen anymore aside from the odd Flash Gordon
fix.

> Loaf himself is OK, I mean he was in _Spiceworld the Movie_ so he's
> definitely reached some sort of iconic status! :)

I don't have any of his other albums, never heard them. What little I have
heard sucked. BOoH was a one-shot deal from a guy who's really a sleazy
actor and showman, whatever.


> They really did seem to drop out of sight after that, though, until the
> famous Live Aid performance.  Which was basically bloody brilliant.
Didn't
> really care for their later albums though.

They were very hit or miss from that point I guess. The Game or Hot Space
etc.
did little/nothing for me. That was the time (early 80s, seeing the Flash
Gordon
flick) frame I got into them, but oddly enough I started with an old A Day
At The Races tape I found somewhere. Then The Works came out, and the
Highlander stuff and I thought those were great (ages 12-14, ok), and a
couple of years later I got into Hawkwind so... :) But I did get the CD of
Innuendo (with the calendar and all the stuff - no longer in my posession)
out of nostagia and because it was sorta a return to form in every respect
IMO,
even *remotely* decent "prog" if you like, than say the horrible one before

which name escapes me... and then of course Fred wuz Ded.

anyway I have some current rants on funnybooks and stuff up at
http://www.login.eunet.no/~christmu/junk.html if you wanna see what kids
are
up to these days.

Christian