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[Sue U]

I don't care if iPhones are the tools of the Devil, it makes me happy to hear "Gigantic," one of my favorite songs. I hope they're paying Kim Deal dump trucks full of money.

[Sue U]

And speaking of Kim Deal:



Awesome.

[dgs49]

Do people actually pay to watch that? She makes Rod Stewart look like Paravotti.

[Lord Jim]

I'm not sure Rod, (or anyone else for that matter) would really want to "look" like Pavarotti...

(Living or dead...)

[Lord Jim]

I don't recall Miss Deal; but I don't think she's that bad...(as a vocalist; I won't give her any style points for the video; doesn't look like they had much of a budget...)

That clip reminded me of the sound of the New Wave female "Bad-Girl" groups (and vocalists) from the 80's..

That genre of music in the 80's was a send up of an earlier sound; the female teen-romance-angst pop songs of the late 50's to the mid sixties...("I'm Sorry", "Where The Boys Are", "I Want To Be Bobby's Girl" , "It's My Party", etc...)

I like that retro-parody genre; (The Waitresses come to mind...)

[Gob]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Deal

Kimberley Ann Deal (born June 10, 1961) is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the former bassist and backup vocalist of the alternative rock band Pixies, and the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for The Breeders. Deal joined the Pixies in January 1986 as the band's bassist, adopting the stage name Mrs. John Murphy for the albums Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa. Following Doolittle and the Pixies' hiatus, she formed The Breeders with Tanya Donelly and Josephine Wiggs. After the Pixies reconvened in 1990, Deal felt increasingly sidelined by the band's frontman, Black Francis, which led to the Pixies' breakup in early 1993.

After the Pixies, Deal returned her focus to the Breeders, who released the platinum-selling album Last Splash in 1993. In 1994, the Breeders went into hiatus after Deal's identical twin sister, Kelley, entered drug rehabilitation. During their eight-year break, Deal adopted the stage name Tammy Ampersand and formed The Amps, recording a single album, Pacer in 1995. She resumed her role as the Breeders' guitarist for their third album Title TK in 2002, and reunited with the Pixies in 2004. She left the Pixies in 2013.

Pretty important player in US indie music in the 90's.

[Lord Jim]

Pretty important player in US indie music in the 90's.

"important player in US indie music.."

Isn't that rather like saying "important short-stop for the NY Mets" ?

Like I said, I don't think she sounds all that bad...No need to insult the woman...

[Gob]

"important player in US indie music.."

Isn't that rather like saying "important short-stop for the NY Mets" ?

I don't know, is it?

[Lord Jim]

Never been impressed with the whole "indie" music concept...

Buncha snooty self-righteous types celebrating the fact that they like music that nobody else cares to listen to, (much less pay to listen to), if you ask me...

And wallowing in a sense of condescending, self-congratulation about their "superior" artistic appreciation based on their fondness for (and more importantly knowledge of) music that most people don't care to listen to...

yrs,

Lord "Spokesman For The Common Man" Jim

[Sue U]

Piss off, Jim; you're talking out your ass.

[Lord Jim]

I stand by my earlier response to you when this subject came up...

Uh, Jim, anyone who has listened to any college/indie radio in the last 30 years or so knows Kate Bush; she is unquestionably part of the pantheon. She is only "unheard of" to you, and I'm not at all sure I'd pick you to be programming my playlists.

She is only "unheard of" to you, and all other real Americans who don't follow snooty obscure radio stations whose broadcast range can be measured in blocks rather than miles

Fixed that for you...

(BTW, I actually complimented the singer who's work you posted in this thread... perhaps that was lost on you in your rush to be snooty and condescending... )

[Sue U]

If this music is so snooty and elitist, why is Apple using it in a very popular mass-market commercial?

A huge portion of today's pop owes its existence to indie rock, punk and power pop of the 80s and 90s; it shaped the sound of what's commercially successful now. The fact that you are 20 years behind the curve doesn't detract from the significance of the work.

[Gob]

20?

[Sue U]

20?

I was taking into account the fact that I'm one of those snooty self-righteous types who likes music that nobody else cares to listen to, and so another 20 years ahead of the cultural curve.

It is hilarious that Jim thinks I'm somehow a musical elitist, when he's the one who won't deign to listen to anything outside his extremely limited comfort zone. Me, I've always been a fan of music generally, and love something (usually, many things) about almost every musical genre -- except "New Age," that shit is just like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

[Lord Jim]

I was taking into account the fact that I'm one of those snooty self-righteous types who likes music that nobody else cares to listen to,

As well you should...

[MajGenl.Meade]

For some reason I was reminded of this

Or no reason

[TPFKA@W]

If anyone has Ms. Deal's address I would love to send her some hygiene products, specifically a comb and some shampoo. I am happy to invest in that while I will not be investing in her music. Gah.