Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V6 #19

[Daswer@aol.com]

Brian in Atlanta, thanks again for the Camille Paglia article touting The
Who's relevance.  Excepting the esteemed women of this list, The Who always
seemed to appeal more to guys that I knew (believe me, my dream was to find a
girlfriend who dug The Who 1/4 as much as I did).  To all female Who fans out
there, please don't take offense at what I just said.  It was just my own,
unfortunate, personal experience that I met too few women who liked The Who at
all.  However, I once rented a room in the house of a female friend in Memphis
years ago and she turned out to be a huge Who fan.  Attractive already, she
suddenly shot up the desirability scale a hundredfold.  Where are you Kim?!
Thanks also Brian for laying out Pete's own words regarding his sexual
history.  I just wanted to get it straight (no pun intended) in my own mind.
Now I'm satisfied (ibid on the pun).  If anyone still wants the general
lowdown on Pete's "preferences", make sure you read the last digest if you
missed it.  Brian's post is the most complete answer anyone's ever provided to
me.  
Overrated bands:
-The Dead, as others have already said, including myself.
-REM, excepting two great tunes "End of The World" or whatever its called, and
"Radio Free Europe", the rest of their radio hits are mindnumbing IMO.
"Orange Crush"?  Ugh!  Maybe some gems are hidden on the albums.  I'll never
care to know.
-John Cougar Mellonhead: that's right!  Every year this guy gets further
entrenched in the Pantheon of Rock Gods and I just don't get it.  I like "The
Authority Song", but almost everything else is some kind of cheezy, softboiled
Heartland crapola.  "R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.": can we say, "That's What I Like
About You"?  Even the legendary "Jack And Diane" has to be a contender for
most overrated Rock staple.  That "drum solo" is horrible.
-Tom Petty:  As if slamming Mellonhead wasn't bad enough!  I'm sorry but this
guy's stature looms even greater than Mellonhead's and his position in Rockdom
gets more mythic by the day.  For what??  "You Got Lucky"??  For the pathetic
guitar solo in that song?  Or maybe for "Breakdown" where Tom's wretched voice
does its best impression of a Mexican lounge singer.  His lyrics are boring,
his music is dull beyond words and always painfully obvious. You can hear the
next chord coming a mile away.  Yuck.  I do agree that "American Girl" is a
good tune, but other than that everything is either mediocre or just plain
awful.
-Leo