tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post7593416463737323701..comments2023-11-05T09:33:34.696+00:00Comments on The 'Spill: The Twelve Tasks Of ToffeeBoy - #12 Dean FriedmanBlimpyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03062521891682719767noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-30358633040801109092009-12-20T23:26:59.486+00:002009-12-20T23:26:59.486+00:00Hey TB, I forgot to mention, but in last week'...Hey TB, I forgot to mention, but in last week's Music Weekly podcast, there's a nice feature on The Modern Lovers by Michael Hann, in case you hadn't heard it.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11689297995853131102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-29494722611998616172009-12-20T21:26:16.599+00:002009-12-20T21:26:16.599+00:00@ nilpf - agreed. Let's sort out a RF tribute ...@ nilpf - agreed. Let's sort out a RF tribute post in the new year.<br /><br />@ tincanman - no, thank you! I'd be even more impressed if you'd said <i>Everything</i> But The Girl. Pay attention, that man ...<br /><br />@ Maki - I'm very proud that there's a little part of Spain where Martin Stephenson gets the admiration he deserves.<br /><br />@ sourpus - she clearly had good taste - in many ways.ToffeeBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09610938852113922395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-34708288122663397682009-12-20T19:26:52.840+00:002009-12-20T19:26:52.840+00:00My first girlfriend (mentioned in Steenbeck's ...My first girlfriend (mentioned in Steenbeck's Crush blog) had his first album and played it to me many many times. I quite liked some of it and still do.sourpushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18064481502321883887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-31046122964268674612009-12-20T18:48:04.123+00:002009-12-20T18:48:04.123+00:00TB - you turned me and a lot of regulars at the No...TB - you turned me and a lot of regulars at the Noveccento onto Martin Stephenson for which we are grateful. <br />Regarding A-lists and stuff. I haven't had a single nom get even a sniff of the B list since I started taking part (a year or so, now).This, given my - at times - linguistically obscure tastes and occasional breaks, is maybe not too surprising and it doesn't bother me. I am not knocking the lists. I am genuinely pleased, for example, that Lambretinha who started at more or less the same time as me (and shares at least a geographical affinity), has been doing particularly well recently. The peer feedback I get, mainly here, but also on RR itself are my reward. I'd love to get Carlos Gardel (for example) onto the A list but I know it's an enormous (t)ask. If it happens, I'll be chuffed. If it doesn't so be it. <br />I have enjoyed this series. Thank you.Makinavajahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17431063279898268957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-10938833058975492702009-12-20T18:03:57.415+00:002009-12-20T18:03:57.415+00:00My guess is the extra lists are your doing Toffee....My guess is the extra lists <i>are</i> your doing Toffee. Most of your 'Tasks' bands aren't ones I connect with, but I've listened dutifully and with an open mind and have a better appreciation of some of them than before. (Biggest leap up my ladder was Anything But the Girl).<br />I'm sure others have had similar experiences, so your work here is done - and very well done, I might add. <br />Thanks much for your effort and courage!tincanmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12200557175717172969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-43400203458910061192009-12-20T15:45:16.507+00:002009-12-20T15:45:16.507+00:00TB, I can understand you're trying to figure o...TB, I can understand you're trying to figure out why your own tastes aren't shared by some of us, but I don't think you'll gain much insight by searching for an overarching theory. Personally I'm just not really reached by the music in question, but not because of image or "mainstreamness". <br />I'm not anti-mainstream myself, necessarily- I did nom U2's With Or Without You on RR, after all.<br />Basically I just don't see the sense in investing A-list status with so much importance, nor do I really discern a conscious decision to exlude any particular genres. For me, your series of posts are very interesting as a snapshot of what you think constitutes pop music; but not really so much as an attempt to explain why the bands in question aren't on the A-Z. By the way, we owe the 'Spill a Robert Forster tribute post at some stage.nilpferdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818100352162861468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-72441995704775409702009-12-20T15:03:48.684+00:002009-12-20T15:03:48.684+00:00Sorry, didn't mean to hit 'post' then!...Sorry, didn't mean to hit 'post' then!<br /><br />And if the music I like is too mainstream, what is it about that music that a) makes it mainstream and b) makes it unattractive to the RR audience?<br /><br />Nil satis nisi optimumToffeeBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09610938852113922395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-57983374423533040542009-12-20T15:02:11.025+00:002009-12-20T15:02:11.025+00:00Fair enough, nilpf, but we all like to see our nom...Fair enough, nilpf, but we all like to see our nominations make it to the A List. And with your tastes being (generally speaking) more 'out there' than mine, your seven A Listers in 2009 to my two is actually indicative of what I'm trying to examine. Is it that my tastes are actually <i>too</i> mainstream for RR?ToffeeBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09610938852113922395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-89325077595087813282009-12-20T14:07:57.559+00:002009-12-20T14:07:57.559+00:00Still not really sure why you hang such a lot on a...Still not really sure why you hang such a lot on a band's making the A-Z, TB. I'm not bothered that Herbie Hancock isn't in there, or Wayne Shorter, or The Clean, or Electronic, or about 95% of the other artists I gain my listening pleasure from.<br />From my point of view, I can't really get very excited about Dean Friedman or any of the other eleven you've posted in this series, and I have given the ones I didn't know a listen, but with my musical focus that's hardly surprising. <br />de gustibus non disputandum.nilpferdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818100352162861468noreply@blogger.com