Publications always want eloquent letters! Seriously, you sit around in the office for ages twiddling your thumbs, and you punch the air when someone finally gets it.
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I thought letters to the editor had mostly died out in the age of the fucking online comments, which are rarely coherent, let alone eloquent. When they are eloquent, it's pearls before swine.
I once got a letter published in the Batman comic in the 80s. It wasn't all that eloquent. But I was right. I told them to bring back the top-tier colorful villains people liked - Joker, Penquin, etc. I didn't say "Stop trying to make Hugo Strange happen," but it was implied. I don't recall what else I had to say.
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When I worked for theheart.org, we got comments under the articles. 99% were from actual cardiologists who used their real names, which was usually helpful on the scientific stories, but not always. There was one who insisted on using the handle "truthteller" which was exactly as obnoxious as you might imagine.
Needless to say, perhaps, any article that discussed how much cardiologists at teaching hospitals get paid was not received in the same spirit of open-minded scientific inquiry. And there is occasionally some sexism and racism comes up in discussions of how doctors are trained and mentored.
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I usually don't feature music journalists or DJs in my monthly round-up of musicians who have passed away, but Neil gets featured in the January In Memoriam -- and he would have featured even if he had not been a musician as well.
https://halfhearteddude.com/2024/02/...-january-2024/
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Taylor's 2014 article on Britpop is always essential reading:
https://thequietus.com/articles/1509...versary-review
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- Ardiles/Villa/Hoddle era Spurs. Otherwise a casual fan of the game. Like when Bohs/Celtic do well.
- Chocolate covered Oreos. There, I said it.
I think they were pretty keen on New Model Army and The Wedding Present in the 80s.
But you can't be liking too many things if you want to be setting the scene.
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They like things that are either current, obscure and not liked by many people or that were popular in the past but were deeply uncool at the time. The key is being somewhere between iconoclastic and contrarian.
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Taylor likes early Oasis but not their imperial phase. Price has said that Britpop had some positives at the beginning but became worthless by the time of Supergrass, Shed Seven, Sleeper, etc. The Britpop label also embraces good stuff that wasn't really Britpop - Pulp, Manics.I think that's all in the article.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostI dont think Taylor's stance has shifted at all between now and then. In fact compared to Kulkarni and Price he was a positive shill for Oasis at the time.
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’Britpop’ as an entity doesn’t really require too much analysis given that it didn’t really mean anything in particular and was initially simply used by the music press to try and create a scene.
The only elements that the bands categorised thus had in common was that they played guitars. One might claim that the majority were influenced by distinct past styles, but that’s arguably true of all pop music.
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When that biege man Maconie forst coined the term it also wrapped in St Etienne, possibly the least guitary band of the time that was still "indie".Last edited by Lang Spoon; Yesterday, 14:42.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostDo we?
It was pop music from Britain in the early 90s. How about that?
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When A Girl Like You went Top Five, Edwyn Collins was briefly roped into the scene by some journos - which he doubtless would’ve hated. (He also dismissed grunge in Keep On Burning.)
Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostWhen that biege man Maconie forst coined the term it also wrapped in St Etienne, possibly the least guitary band of the time that was still "indie".
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post’Britpop’ as an entity doesn’t really require too much analysis given that it didn’t really mean anything in particular and was initially simply used by the music press to try and create a scene.
The only elements that the bands categorised thus had in common was that they played guitars. One might claim that the majority were influenced by distinct past styles, but that’s arguably true of all pop music.
Rock radio had really fallen into rut by 1991 - as all forms of popular culture do from time to time - and was overdue for a correction.
Those just happened to be the bands that were ready to meet that demand at that moment. But that was just lucky timing. And they didn’t necessarily have that much in common.
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