The Nation "Discovers" the Cure

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As if to dispel the commonly-held belief that liberals only like boring trad/rootsy and/or bland PC crud (e.g., dylan, springsteen, arrested development), the latest online edition of the nation features an article on the Cure.

so, when will the nation or (be still my beating heart!) utne reader or NPR do a feature on bowie, depeche mode, or the smiths?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 31 January 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Why the Smiths?

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 31 January 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Why the Smiths?

b/c there's an entire generational swath of nation readers (or potential nation readers) for whom the smiths meant MUCH more than springsteen.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 31 January 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Springsteen more than the Smiths, but it does seem a bit unfair to not mention bands like the Smiths, Depeche Mode, and The Cure. It seems unbelieve able they wouldn't mention David Bowie by now.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 31 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

the latest online edition of the nation features an article on the Cure.

Hey, you didn't even say it was written by ILX's own Douglas Wolk! Rah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 31 January 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

silly me ;-)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 31 January 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I doubt that fans of the Smiths are the biggest demographic they are missing by only covering the Ani-demographic.
Imagine if they started doing hip hop coverage...!

(and not Arrested Development either).

― djdee2005, Saturday, 31 January 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, hip-hop too!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 31 January 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Other musicians have appeared with him in videos and on stage, sometimes for years on end, but nobody can remember what any of them look like.

Hey wait, a blatant lie! (I can name at least half by appearance alone.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 31 January 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I could definitely name all of them and identify a good 85% by sight. (The easiest one to pick out is Andy Anderson, ha)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Well yes.

(If all goes well my copy of Join the Dots should be here in about, oh, thirty minutes.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

*double checks*

BAH. It only just left Louisville, the bums.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

HA HA

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I NEED NOT YOUR SHAMELESS ABUSE, you vile creature.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

you angry cure fans ... DIVIDE AND CONQUER IS SO EASY AMONG THE LOT OF YOU!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, you're one of us too, pal.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Angry or jealous?

― GROW, BANK ACCOUNT, GROW (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

ONE OF US ... ONE OF US ... ONE OF US

― gabbagabbaheybär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

good show dw!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn, my copy (ordered from abroad) is stuck at the customs office!! Gotta go and grease those spoons, I guess...

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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