RE: In Defense of Level 42

Davies, Dave [HSC] (D.Davies@lmu.ac.uk)
Wed, 14 May 97 12:19:00 PDT

>>>>>>>>>>>.
So we're talking about two distinct viewpoints here; you may dismiss L42
as
'pop pap' but in America, even the most commercial-sounding tunes were
way
too 'complex' for the average American audience, and L42 never had a
'marketable image' here. It seems, though, that UK pop music is made to a
somewhat higher quality standard than American pop music; even the Spice
Girls sound like quality material when compared to American top40/MTV
crap.
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Jeez, I'll have to get you the airfare out of there man. Spice Girls and
quality material are not phrases that go together. You must have to
listen to some real shit on your radio !!!!!!

I once saw L42 on 'Showtime at the Apollo', it was on at about 3 in the
morning. They played 'Something about you' (I think) and when they
finished it was like that bit in the Blues Brothers at the start of the
Palace Hotel Ballroom gig. The song faded out to complete silence. That
would seem to go with an interview with MK where he said that the pop
stations in the US wouldn't play them because they sounded black and the
black stations wouldn't play them because they were white (mostly).

dmd
d.davies@lmu.ac.uk