[kj] OT: Jane's WAS: New October File vid

[Alexander Smith]

Okay, here we go...

"If "glam" means original sense of heroin thin"

Ummm.... what exactly gave you that idea? "Glam" is short for  
"glamor" -- I don't believe heroin has even the slightest thing to do  
with it. It had nothing to do with being "thin" (see ye Gary Glitter  
and the entirety of Slade).

"Alex also didn't appear to think BTATS sounded New Romantic, though,  
right?"

Well, that's very simply because it didn't and doesn't. Listen to  
Alphaville or Duran Duran or Visage or Classique Nouveaux or Spandau  
Ballet -- I mean REALLY LISTEN to them and come back and tell me they  
sound ANYTHING like BTATS. I'll wait right here.

I hate to sound so anal and pedantic, but really people --- wrong is  
wrong. Jane's Addiction is no more an L.A. Glam Metal band than they  
were a Skiffle band, and Killing Joke were never even REMOTELY New  
Romantic.

Alex  in NYC



On Oct 9, 2007, at 5:36 PM, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:


> If "glam" means original sense of heroin thin, Iggy on the cover of  

> Raw Power, 70s adrogyny and wearing makeup, etc., then Jane's were  

> LA Glam, but taken forward a notch (or backward a notch, depending  

> on what your perspective is). That doesn't mean they have to be a  

> clone of every other LA band.

>

> Alex also didn't appear to think BTATS sounded New Romantic,  

> though, right?

>

> -Oliver

>

>

> Brendan wrote:

>> Okay, I took the bait and agreed that Jane's addiction suck,  

>> perhaps not

>> because they are LA glam metal (and I know all that stuff too...was a

>> massive WASP fan in particular), but...dunno. Something about them  

>> just

>> annoys me. Perhaps it's the adulation they got that overshadowed  

>> other

>> bands that I thought were far more deserving...

>>

>> Saying something is just 'LA rock' or whatever isn't really a fair

>> criticism...even though I'm not really into that sound. Motley  

>> Crue etc

>> suck shit IMO, but not because they are LA glam metal or anything.

>>

>> There's still some gems in that genre...Dream On by Aerosmith I  

>> rate as a

>> classic...most of the rest of their stuff seemed to be crowd  

>> pleasing pap,

>> Dream On to me is a hint of what they could have become if they had

>> ditched the circus sideshow and decided to make EPIC FUCKING  

>> MUSIC :).

>> Tyler's voice was legendary, until he screamed it to death.

>>

>> GNR, well I'll agree to disagree, but I'll never have a fair  

>> perspective

>> because they 'groundbreaking' (for me) band that I was  

>> contemporary with

>> when I was rebelling at 13...

>>

>>

>

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