Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!mhuxm!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.music Subject: Re: net.music.* groups Message-ID: <454@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 12:09:59 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxn.454 Posted: Wed Feb 8 12:09:59 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 02:17:57 EST References: <5484@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Central Services Org., Piscataway N.J. Lines: 32 Aha! Now we have the ultimate subgrouping. Put all serious music in net.music.classical, and jazz, blues, folk, etc. [?????] can go into net.music.popular, which of course is not being patronizing or elitist... Of course, classical is a misnomer, so we'll have to change the name to net.music.serious. So now all we have left to do is distinguish which musics belong in which groups: Van Halen -- net.music.serious: They're like artists, man, and anybody who gets compared to Steve Howe... Leonard Bernstein -- net.music.popular: Hey, he wrote movie soundtracks and scores for musicals, and he wrote a rock opera. He never could conduct anyway... Rick Wakeman -- net.music.serious: All the music he stole from was serious... Grateful Dead -- net.music.serious: Anybody who can stand up there and play what they play for as long as they do have GOT to be serious... Ludwig van Beethoven -- net.music.popular: Everybody knows who he is, and what about A Fifth of Beethoven??? Further pigeonholing exercises are left to the reader. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUBGROUPS FOR NEW TOPICS AND SUBGROUPS BASED ON TASTE!!!!!! -- Pardon me for breathing... Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr