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From: sherouse@unc.UUCP (George W. Sherouse)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Heavy Metal Poisoning
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 22:33:33 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 22:33:33 1984
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The call has come in mod.ber to liven things up a bit.  Here goes...

I for one am shocked and horrified that heavy metal has crawled back
out from under its rock.  The apparent success of these leather-bound
crotch-rockers is disappointing to say the least.  I thought we'd
survived that once and for all, sort of like the mumps.  And have
you seen how they portray women in their videos?  Usually in
slit-to-here leather (of course) cave-woman-type getups and always
standing against the light legs spread in anticipation of the arrival
of the guitar-phallus.

How could this be happening (again) in this age of relative
enlightenment?  Some observers have suggested that this is a
reaction to the "sterility" of synthy-pop.  The return of the
guitar hero is one thing, but the tone of the music and associated
videos seems to me to be frighteningly anti-social and violent.

These are not the ravings of an anti-rock fanatic.  Hell, I like
the *Ramones*.  And I was a big fan of some of the prototypical
HM bands in my (their) youth.  But something is just not right.

Can anyone explain this to me?


Good tunes to you...
(the real) George W. Sherouse


"I got tired of counting all these blessings...and then I just got tired."