[peel] Cuban Boys

Stig jmsmall@...
Mon Jul 17 15:43:18 CEST 2000


Well, for all their self-awareness and irony to what extent can they
truly be said to be using EMI rather than the other way around? Bringing
down the system from the inside or just a little part of big industry?
They signed the contracts...

I've a funny feeling they might be listening in so I shan't be too
impolite. 

Mr Diplomacy Stig


> > THE CUBAN BOYS
> > Cognoscenti vs Intelligentsia (EMI)
> > Blame John Peel for this and curse the fact that he didn't retire
> > gracefully upon the occasion of his 60th birthday a few months back.
> > He played this hideous record to death on his programme until canny
> > old EMI decided to release it just in time for Christmas. The Cuban
> > Boys are sadly nothing to do with Castro and the magnificent oldsters
> > of Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club. More Disney and singing
> > hamsters. It's bound to be a Christmas smash and ruin everybody's
> > holiday. * (generous)





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