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This problem goes beyond music. There seems to be a certain attitude people have towards everything (music,movies,sports) which is: I personally don't like it therefore it sucks, and anyone who likes it sucks and is shallow, brainwashed, immature, etc etc etc.
I don't specifically care much for ABBA, but I know my day is brightened if I happen to hear the Cars "Just What I Needed" on the radio. But normally I listen to . -- HughAnderson
Hugh, ABBA's was hardly the same kind of music as the the Cars. Was that just a trial balloon to see if it's still okay to like the Cars? Any other skeletons lurking - Culture Club? Duran Duran?
The answer is yes. Listen to Eliot Easton's great appropriation of the guitar lead in the Beatle's "I Will" for "Best Friend's Girlfriend" or his quasi-Frippotronics on "Since She's Gone."
For next time, please read chapter 6 of Jonny Green's Passion is a Fashion, and be prepared to discuss how Topper Headon's drug addition affected Sandinista, if at all.
Class dismissed.
