Re: Guilty Pleasures--Name One

"goFab.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:38:32 -0500, in article
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, BlackMonk stated:
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> >"poisoned rose" &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> Reading replies to this thread, I'm trying to figure out whether
> >> either....
> >>
> >> a) almost none of you have heard any new music since the '60s
> >> b) you've heard music since the '60s, but don't like any of it (hence,
> >> no "pleasures" of any sort)
> >> c) you've heard music since the '60s and like some of it, but none of
> >> those pleasures are guilt-inducing.
> >
> >I'll go with C. I don't feel guilty about liking anything.
> >
> >
>
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> Many here would probably go with (b), as we've seen in many prior threads
in
> rmb.  The lament that "there's no good music anymore" (and hasn't been
since the
> 1960s) is all too familiar here. In the meantime, people have to look only
as
> far as the recent charts to find music that's just as good as anything
from
> those eras, demonstrating not only that good music is still being made but
that
> it's being recognized by the public.  The huge hit "Stacy's Mom" is from
an
> album by Fountains of Wayne that, in terms of sheer pop song writing and
> performance briliance, easily rivals the best work of the Beatles.  Yet
the
> whining no doubt will continue.
>

I've only heard the hit. I wouldn't say it rivals the best work of the
Beatles, but it's a good song. Not a million miles away from The Beatles
musically, either.