by NuWaveRx » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:24 am
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"As for Stella, in her short time here, she has participated in a grand total of two music threads - fucking two!"
...I love this accusation. I don't talk to you guys about music and it's true. I'm older than you, my focus is broader and my tastes eclectic. If I tell you I'm listening to Miles Davis while I type does that disqualify me from this board?
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Blir brings up a very good point, and one I think that your blithe comment tries to dodge. This is the New Wave Outpost. I believe (I'm not MikeP) that it's PRIMARY purpose is for those who love or want to learn more about this genre of music. Or as stated by MikeP himself, "The New Wave Outpost is devoted to the musical phenomenon which came to be known as New Wave, in all its glorious guises....The New Wave Outpost was created in February 1996 and is maintained by me, Mike Paulsen, with the intention of helping fans of New Wave and 80's underground music locate classic and hard-to-find songs that are now available on numerous CD compilations, as well as notable album reissues. It also serves as a repository of sorts in remembering many forgotten and overlooked new wave-era artists."
So what I'd like to know is of the thousands of message boards out there why you choose this one to start political threads on? Do you even like the music we discuss here? Or are you in fact here to (as others have phrased it) "Stir Shit"? I'm not much of an expert on the 'Net, but a poster who comes to boards and does not discuss what the board primarily exists for sounds like a troll to me.
Stella I'm sure there must be hundreds of poltically oriented boards out there with similar views to yours (or if you enjoy arguments and debates, ones with views opposed to yours). I respectfully suggest that those may be more of what your looking for.
One final point. It is presumptuous in the extreme to assume that just because we post at the NWO, that it's the only music posters here like. For example there was a classical music thread on this board recently that received many posts. I love NW, but it is certainly not the only music I listen to. I suspect many other posters here are the same. Your tastes may indeed be "eclectic"--hey I like Miles Davis, too, but so I assure you are many of the posters here.