From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Craig Franck Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!! Date: 1997/11/20 Message-ID: <6524im$poj@mtinsc05.worldnet.att.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 291069608 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> <3456A374.5BF2@public.hz.zj.cn> <347067B8.46@lysator.liu.se> <64qllr$c45@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net> <34710873.4313003@news.linkonline.net> <01bcf51b$abcea520$0200000a@kld_mcs> <64vpua$ni7@corn.cso.niu.edu> <01bcf5c3$afbda340$0200000a@kld_mcs> Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Mike Smith" wrote: >system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu wrote in article ><64vpua$ni7@corn.cso.niu.edu>... >> >One hears English-language songs on >> >European radio all the time, but one almost never hears >> >non-English-language songs on American radio (I can't speak for >> >Commonwealth nations). >> >> I think that speaks more to our insularity than anything else. > >Maybe. For myself, I can say I don't like European music very much because >of the musical content, not the language. Looking at the international charts in Billboard, I can recognize 8 out of the top 10 songs in some countries. September 12 Top 10 in Sweden is topped by "Barbie Slut Girl" and then Puff Daddy, Coolio, the "Men in Black" song, then finally two artists that seem local, then back to that Mr. Biggy fellow, Mariah Carrey, Baby Face & Stevie Wonder, and The Verve (apparently not the same as The Verve Pipe, because the label is different). Oasis, Aqua, John Fogerty (I guess swamp funk if popular there), Spice Girls, No Doubt, and Prodigy all have Top 10 albums in Sweden. >Europeans (except the British, >who invented it, and a couple of flukes from Germany, like the Scorpions) >don't know how to ROCK! I mean, what was the last really good Swiss (or >Czech, or Danish, etc.) grunge band? ;-) There will always be ABBA (sold more records than the Beatles, you know). :-) wowowowoWaterloo... -- Craig clfranck@worldnet.att.net Manchester, NH I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. -- Ashleigh Brilliant