So, the Soft Boys have split...again?

[Paul]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&ncid=768&e=7&u=/nm/20030505/music_nm/music_softboys_dc

[tinobeat]

you're a coupla months late with the news, champ...

check this... (http://www.matadorrecords.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=299&highlight=soft+boys)

I'm not so bummed, because it was cool that they got back together, but I wasn't expecting it to last forever. I'm sure they'll all keep making music and it'll be sweet..

[anagrama]

Paul...stay on the ball man.

and I dont think anyone under 40 gave a fuck that they regrouped.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

No one under 40 cared? I cared and I won't be 40 for a few more months. Beyond that, I'm older than Gerard and probably the most of the rest of Matador's staff and I'll wager they cared, too.

[Paul]

I'm not even 30 yet (a few more months shy), and I cared as well.

But obviously not enough to catch the news when it was first posted...cripes!

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by anagrama
and I dont think anyone under 40 gave a fuck that they regrouped.

sometimes I wonder how you consistently manage to come up with the most idiotic shit to say..

anyway, I'm 24, most of my friends are around my age, we were psyched.. you know, people are allowed to be into music that was around before they were.

[anagrama]

Originally posted by tinobeat
sometimes I wonder how you consistently manage to come up with the most idiotic shit to say..

anyway, I'm 24, most of my friends are around my age, we were psyched.. you know, people are allowed to be into music that was around before they were.

ok...let me rephrase this.

everyone under 40, or anyone NOT part of the pedigree of young indie rockers whom like to dig up records by cult status, critically acclaimed, commercially unsucessful bands from the 70's........................nobody gave a shit about the soft boys reforming.

that made more sense.

dont worry tinobeat.

im part of that pedigree.

I wasnt impressed with the soft boys though.

[tinobeat]

oh, I'm not worried... thanks for the concern tho.

Well, Robyn Hitchcock got quite popular after the demise of the 'Boys, never quite a superstar, but popular nonetheless. I remember there being a lot of press about the Soft Boys reforming, making me think its a lot more than just record geeks and music dorks.

I also highly doubt Matador would have given Underwater Moonlight the super deluxe 2CD/3LP treatment and gotten David Fricke to write hyperbolic liner notes if the target market was pasty record-bin shufflers.

alls I'm saying is just because up in TO nobody listens to good music, doesn't mean that a lot of people, even those only marginally or not at all interested in the geekiness, were psyched about the 'Boys.

OK, your turn...

[Gerard]

young people AND old people suck. But age-ism of any sort is just bad. So the Soft Boys and many of their fans were older than dirt. Who cares? So most of the contributors to his board are too young to know who played the black Odd Couple (or the white one). Who cares....again!

[Paul]

There was a black Odd Couple?

[anagrama]

Gerard is my favorite old man.

[bitterfruit]

Bob Pollard has to be one of the oldest people that I have met personally who can whup all of our asses after a case of Miller Genu-wine Draft and then still belt out hours of Bee Thousand and sing the sweet tunes of Isolation Drills and then drive himself home.

[cradleburns]

Originally posted by Paul
There was a black Odd Couple?

Ron Glass and Demond Wilson. ABC early 80s. Sorry couldn't resist.

[Gerard]

Demond Wilson, formerly Lamont on "Sanford & Son" and later, the ill-fated "Baby, I'm Back". Last time I checked, he was doing a evangelical act under the headline "From 'Sanford & Son'....to 'God & Son'"

Ron Glass, aka the dapper Det. Ron Harris from ABC's "Barney Miller".

[Susan Kirk]

how in the world do you retain all that knowledge you possess? You're a national treasure, Sir.

[Gerard]

you're very kind.

my parents did not allow me to watch television until I was 6 weeks old. From that point on, I resolved to make up for lost time.

you know if that blonde woman from "Cagney & Lacey" had married Ron Glass, she would've become Sharon Gless-Glass.

[Susan Kirk]

now you're making me feel all gushy. Stop that!! Don't stop...

I think TV has shaped the rawk music landscape--both "popular" and, eh-hem, indie--in ways yet undocumented. Now's the time to write that book we all know you've got in ya!

Spin 'll luv it.