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Evening Standard



I've just been reading the "London Evening Standard"  In it there is 
an article by a bloke called Pete Clark, mourning the demise in 
British Pop Music.Here are a few choice quotes:
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"A glance at the line-up for this year's Glastonbury Festival fills 
me with gloom; it includes teenyboppers Ash, faux guitar lads Ocean 
Colour Scene, ditto Supergrass, ditto Kula Shaker........"

"Between the boy bands and the dance machine lie the "proper" pop 
groups.......these lads have listened to some old records and taken a 
few guitar lessons........which results in a curious melange of what 
they haven't properly digested and can't exactly play.  The Kinks or 
the Small Faces or the Who would laugh in their pasty faces."

"Singer-Songwriters, however misguided they may be, are at least 
attempting to promote some idea of character, another area in which 
today's pop is sadly deficient.  Great pop music was always given 
extra lustre by the deeds and utterances of its practitioners.  The 
biting wit of John Lennon, the sensational soul-searching of Pete 
Townshend, the underwater car driving of Keith Moon.  Today we have 
to endure the increasingly dreary antics of of such as Oasis, who 
appear to believe that swear words, rude gestures and sachets of 
cocaine can be a worthy substitute for humour and properly 
anti-social behaviour"

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This a typical English newspaper article in that is is slagging off 
what we are actually quite good at, compared to the rest of the 
world.  However, I happen to agree with it 100 percent.  It's 
particularly pleasing to see the Who being paraded as one of the 3 or 
4 really good English pop groups, and one that modern groups should 
aspire to emulate (but never surpass).
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