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get with the 90's people



Baba, re: 
Give up...get with the 90's people..

I hear this phrase a lot, and yet no-one has ever quite explained to me
what it meant.  Does it mean that we institute a sort of cultural
euthenasia?  Or that we dismiss the music of the past in order to
accomodate the music of the present?  As far as I'm concerned, whatever
point you might have made about the Who's exploitation of their past is
undermined by three things: 1. The Who are still a vital live unit,
playing the most challenging work (Quadrophenia) of their career; 2. The
reissued CD's are for the most part a great improvement over the
insultingly bad CD reissues of the 80's; 3. Idiotic, meaningless
statements like "get with the 90's people" confuse your point.  

I, for one, would like to know how dismissing the Who would somehow make
me better attuned to "the 90's".  Until then, I think I'm going to
listen to the superb "Sell Out" reissue and reminisce about the
wonderful experience of seeing "Quadrophenia" on stage for the first
time.

Brian V., who at 25, is living very much in the             90's
"This song is called 'It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding, Ho Ho Ho'"