utterly forgotten but NOT OBSCURE

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by terming david byrne "obscure", alexmacpherson touches the exact, interesting nerve i think -- maybe even more than with his legendary "why SHOULD i have heard of john wayne?" argument

which is that in every generation (wait, that's how BUFFY starts!! -- er er focus) in every generation there are figures very well-known to all who have just VANISHED from mainstream radar by the next cycle

it's not that they're still popular but currently unfashionable; it's more that "what they meant" is no longer part of the pop discussion -- is that right?

so why has byrne vanished this way? or is it just not making "the right kinds of records" any more?

(disclaimer: i LOVED LOVE LOVED early TH and have i think every record they made --- BUT i went off them INCREDIBLY fast, round abt "true stories", and it took me years to rediscover any fondness)

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[(Anonymous)]

i'm not ALL the way thru this thread yet but mark and tom seem to be saying byrne IS obscure on the basis that the lex hasn't heard of him!

BIG logic gap.

i'm only about two years older than lex and I KNOW WHO BYRNE IS. and HAVE DONE SINCE I WAS LITTLE.

hkm

[(Anonymous)]

also:

MIKE SKINNER

hkm