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A ‘No Country Music in Sight’ Rate-A-Record for Monday
This one’s by request
I normally wait at least a week between installments of the never-ending Rate-A-Record article, but a comment on the most recent one (dedicated to the late, great Glen Campbell) demands that I do one sooner than that. It seems that since my move from the Dallas-Fort Worth area to the wilds of East Texas, my Rate-A-Record stories have been too dominated by country music for my friend Simon Dillon to stomach. He summed up his feelings on the issue below:
“I feel there has been far too much bloody country music in your rate a records lately. Is this a side-effect of moving to East Texas?
Any chance of a rate a record for Britpop, ie Blur, Suede, Pulp, Supergrass, Sleeper, (and yes, Oasis if you must)? Or better still, a rate a record with New Order, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, etc? That will help ease my pain.”
I would likely get this response if I focused on country music even once out of every 50 stories; Simon hates country the way I hate Satan, the Soviets, chili with beans, and the Washington Redskins (they will always be the Redskins for me). But looking back over the past several, even I have to admit I have gone a little too country.
