HEY, MOANER

Rip It Up, Issue 224, 1 April 1996, Page 9

HEY, MOANER

Hey, man, what ever happened to the pop charts? Reading the March 17 New Zealand Top 10 singles chart, I came across groups called LV, 3T, CDB, OMC, ABC, 123 whatever. Who is buying this commercial lollipop crap? Number 1 was ‘Mysterious Girl’ by Peter Andre, which must be the biggest shocker ever recorded. You say I just don’t like black music. I say, this isn’t black music. It’s a white man song from a white man record company. I think New Zealand (as a mass) has the worst musical group taste in the world. Our singles chart only proves so. What’s this R&B shite even doing in our record stores? I say burn it all before you become brain-dead!

The album charts are just as bad, and why are Siamese Dream and Definitely Maybe still Top 20? Those albums are like centuries old! Buy something new, you eediots! Like something reviewed by Bronwyn or Kevin in this magazine. Break off from the mainstream before its too late. That’s my message. Someone From Wellington. PS: ‘Billy Joel is an asshole,’ is the best lyric from any song I’ve heard in a long time. Thanks, Garageland. . Editor replies: Record shops are full of R&B singles because people buy them. I’m no Peter Andre fan, but he records for

Mushroom Records, who own Flying Nun, who release Garageland records. Have you ever considered that maybe if record labels weren’t releasing pop R&B they would earn less money, and therefore be less able to record more esoteric stuff?