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> On Nov 18, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Max Sawicky wrote:
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> > Sante also has a big essay on the Mekons, for whom he has much praise,
> > though about the release of their hit record 'The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll'
> > there is this:
> >
> > "It entered heavy rotation on all broadcast media. The band got rich and
> > fat and loathsome. It was hard to remember them as young rebel poets from
> > Leeds considering the gaseous VIP-lounge hairballs they had become."
>
> Wow, that's just weird. I wonder what the sales figures were on R n R. I
> seriously doubt they got rich. And they became anything but gaseous
> VIP-lounce hairballs. Maybe my deep love for the Mekons is just blinding me.
>
> Doug
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Hell, they fairly soon thereafter moved to Chicago and punked up traditional country for us - a sure route to success if ever there was one, I guess!
Alan