Re: CHARTS & THE WHO

[Bjørn Ciggaar <ciggaar@warande.net>]

At 20:05 11-5-01 -0600, you wrote:

>In article <F259Lfw9ugwdrXon6pP00004339@hotmail.com>,
>     "L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>  writes:
>
> > Hmm.  I really considered this hard, and I dunno that teens are gonna 
> go for
> > THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT 2000, even with lots of semi-naked dancing girls.
>
>Nick in Salt Lake is 21 and his friends that went to Denver all say it
>"changed their life" and were eager for boots of the show.  Plus there
>are a good number of teens and 20 somethings on this list.  What I
>noticed about the Denver audience was that our boys are now an
>inter-generational thing, with parents sharing it with their kids and
>both really enjoying it.  That was really cool.  Most things in our
>society try to stratify us into age groups -- starting with public
>schooling and the concept of "1st through 12th grades", but once again
>Pete breaks through the barriers, if you're only willing to listen.
>
>The folks that slurp up the top-20 tripe aren't interested in
>"message" they just want a catchy tune.  These are people that are
>more likely to know "You Better, You Bet" than "Substitute", in my
>experience.  YBYB was the most recent pop/top-40 showing for the boys,
>while Substitute occasionally gets played on your classic rock stations.

All good points, but there are still just a few teens that fall out of the 
category (I bet the majority of teens haven't even heard of The Who, the 
fact that there are teens on this list doesn't prove that a lot of teens 
listen or go to The Who). If you want to get a #1 hit, you need to get to 
the single-buying-people. The ones that just buy music because everybody is 
listening to it. People that don't know shit about music. That buy a single 
like it's a plant and it looks good in their living rooms and they can show 
it to their friends.

Cheers,

Bjørn Ciggaar
http://www.warande.net/~ciggaar

"You're all fucking stupid!"
- Pete Townshend (MSG, 7th of October)