The Intelligent Sadness of Designing Americans

[John Doe]

what do you think of They Might Be Giants?

--- Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Beck I like okay just fine, I even spun "Loser" just
> to throw a bar full of people a bone last night
> (having subjected them to "The Gospel Comes to New
> Guinea" by 23 Skiddoo just to show where the bass
> sample in Chemical Brothers' "Block Rocking Beats"
> comes from), we even at one point started compiling
> a
> "Beck, Not Beck" comp of stuff we thught sounded
> like
> Beck (e.g., The Crystal Ball version of Donovan's
> "Trans Love Airways" [a.k.a. "Fat Angel"]).  But I
> heard The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique again for
> the
> first time in some time @ a coffee shop today, and I
> still say, that's the Sgt. Pepper of sampling (even
> though I prefer Revovler and/or The White Album).  I
> don't know where it stands in teh hip-hop canon, I
> recall it sold miserably back in the day, but
> everybody loves it now, so ... but is Beck a genius?
> 
> Maybe Hank Shocklee is, but ...
> 
> --- John Doe <tristero69 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yes! she was one of the women! LOL that's
> > right..thanks for reminding me...I almost
> > forgot....but...I wanna ask your opinion...do you
> > think Beck belongs in the list?...I can't quite
> > decide...he's kinda innovative but maybe not
> > enough...
> 
> 
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