BOC: X-Brothers, Heaven Forbid, Brain Surgeons

[Stephen Swann]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:57:31PM -0400, Albert Bouchard wrote:
> Stephen Swann wrote:
> > Actually, it was: "It's jazzy, it's funky, it's rappin', it sucks."  I
> > remember this very clearly, because of my exquisite embarrassment on
> > finding out that Al was reading the list when I posted that.
>
> Actually I thought that was one of the cleverest reviews that we had gotten up
> to that point. It was the "rock critic" part of the band that took offense.
> Frankly, I've never thought sucking was that bad. You know you've blown it
> when your mother likes your new record!

Well, that explains why you didn't poison me when you had the
chance...  ;-)

Regardless, this was how I discovered that there is a very distinct
difference between the act of "opining" to a somewhat abstract neutral
audience, and saying it to the face of the artist under discussion.
Oof, what a shock to the system!

Steve