OFF: 10 MOST HATED

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On mån 22 mar 1999 17.11 +0000 "Stuart Hamilton"
<stuarthamilton at CONNECTFREE.CO.UK> wrote:
[Re: the Beatles]
> I suspect my antipathy is tainted by 30 years of fawning reverence.  Too
> many polls claiming St Pepper as the greatest album of all time, by
> people who who should know better.

     When I was 15, I thought they they _were_ the greatest band
in the world.  Mind you, the only other band I knew well then was
the Monkees :)
     Context I see here again!  For me the Beatles represented
_real_ rock music, as opposed to 80s cheese.  Guitars, free-thinking,
drugs, no hair-spray ....

     Gee, kinda like "grunge", I guess :}  Except more colourful :)

[Re: The Stones]
> sitting in the pub, someone puts "Brown Sugar" on the jukebox,
> and my foot will tap:-)  But talk about overstaying your welcome!  It's
> nigh on 25 years since they made a listenable record.

     Almost like the Beatles, but without the excuse of having
broken up :)

[Re: Queen]

> it's probably the hypocrisy that grates

     Fair enough!  Though I thought May was a good guitarist,
and "Tie Your Mother Down" was a cool track.

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/