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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 5 Mar 2013: it's... 1972!
« on: March 26, 2013, 10:34:51 PM »How does Renee know what the Jersey Shore sound ca. '72 would sound like?
she got that directly from Looking Glass' wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Glass_(band)
I'd've never pegged them as part of that, but they're from New Brunswick, apparently.
Or as my Mom says, "the guys from Rutgers."
I've never been a Jersey shore resident, but I did live just a couple of
counties away. (You probably saw the pictures after Hurricane Sandy of
the roller coaster that was swept into the ocean. That's where my
parents took the family every summer.) I've never heard of the so-called
"Jersey Shore sound." A quick web search indicates to me the concept is
somewhat sketchy, perhaps little more than the invention of a wikipedia
contributor. Although I'm not familiar with all of them, I don't see
much of a unifying sound among the bands listed as being examples of
this genre. To me it's just another example that Renee is getting her
musicology lessons on the fly by looking things up on the Internet. Sigh.