OFF: now 90s v. 80s

[hijinks at UTARLG.UTA.EDU]

Just think: the innocuousness that we now--perhaps nostalgically, perhaps
not--assign to Duran Duran will probably be assigned to the Backstreet
Boys ten years from hence. Just think of the utterly new high in banal low
that ten years' worth of increased corporate marketing prowess could
produce. The DDs and BBs will be nothing in comparison.

prognistically,
thomas

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Paul Mather wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Tim Gadd wrote:
>
> => >Duran Duran over Backstreet Boys
> =>
> => I cringe to think what Backstreet Boys must be like (sorry, I could never
> => see whatever it was that other people managed to see in DD)
>
> Yeah, but at least Duran Duran can claim to have produced a Zappa
> alumnus...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> NP: Gov't Mule, 12/31/99
>
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>         --- Frank Vincent Zappa
>