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Kingfish
 Post subject: MR: EW Staffers on popular music
PostPosted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:14 pm 
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Kind of fun. All of these band are big on some level. Some sacred cows and some not.
http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1554848_4_0_,00.html

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

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EW isn't hard-hitting journalism by any means, but it's actually not terrible for entertainment fluff. The music section isn't terrible either.

I didn't go out and buy a subscription. yourmusic.com sent me the mag for a year.

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EW = The most entertaining fluff mag out there.
Call it a "guilty pleasure" if you will, but I freaking love it.

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PopTodd Wrote:
EW = The most entertaining fluff mag out there.
Call it a "guilty pleasure" if you will, but I freaking love it.


I've had a subscription for a couple years now. We both love it. And no, it's not Variety, buy it's not crap either. The reviews can be pretty biting at times and they have awesome articles in there on everything.

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Charli Wrote:
PopTodd Wrote:
EW = The most entertaining fluff mag out there.
Call it a "guilty pleasure" if you will, but I freaking love it.


I've had a subscription for a couple years now. We both love it. And no, it's not Variety, buy it's not crap either. The reviews can be pretty biting at times and they have awesome articles in there on everything.


I don't subscribe because it's in every doctor's office in Chicago. And between me and the kids, I'm in doctors' offices so often that I get to read every issue all the way through, every month. For free.

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I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.

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I got a free subscription, too. Me rikey.

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I got a free subscription, too. Me rikey.


I thought for sure you'd comment on their Stones pick.

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

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The missus has a subscription so I usually read it. I like it too.

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what kind of weird bubble to you have to be in to think that everyone likes DMB ?

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Elvis Fu Wrote:
I didn't go out and buy a subscription. yourmusic.com sent me the mag for a year.


I thought about calling them and telling them to stop sending their garbage to my mailbox, but it's just as easy for me to recycle it.
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Elvis Fu Wrote:
I didn't go out and buy a subscription. yourmusic.com sent me the mag for a year.


I thought about calling them and telling them to stop sending their garbage to my mailbox, but it's just as easy for me to recycle it.


I'm reaching the tipping point, and may soon make that call.

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jewels santana Wrote:
what kind of weird bubble to you have to be in to think that everyone likes DMB ?


Except for around here, that fucker is pretty ubiquitous. (I notice it because I HATE Dave Matthews)

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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I got EW free from yourmusic too. I like getting it each week and enjoy reading it. I doubt I'll sign up for a subscription that I have to pay for but for free it's worth getting.
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I got EW free from yourmusic too. I like getting it each week and enjoy reading it. I doubt I'll sign up for a subscription that I have to pay for but for free it's worth getting.


yeah our subscription is like 3 years too i think.

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ew is an awesome magazine

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LooGAR Majority Leader Wrote:
jewels santana Wrote:
what kind of weird bubble to you have to be in to think that everyone likes DMB ?


Except for around here, that fucker is pretty ubiquitous. (I notice it because I HATE Dave Matthews)


i know he's huge and loved by many, but i thought all DBM fans were kind of defensive of their love. LIke they know he's not hip or cool, but damit they love him!

maybe that's just how they are to me.

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I subscribed for years, but let it drop a few months ago and I kind of miss it.

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