leapfrog the dog and brush me daddy-o

Warning: long, boring and possibly not worth it

Reading all of the reaction (on various message boards) to the demise of Top of the Pops got me thinking about the things people read into coverage of a subject. (I'm writing this whilst watching Top Cat so forgive the typos/non-sequiturs).

Quite a few men have heralded the coverage as evidence of 'the BBC's bias against rock'. I saw no evidence of this: Quo appeared more times than any other group; U2 did an outside broadcast. My argument would be that if the coverage was proof of any bias, it showed one against disco, funk, country and 60s garage, as neither of the programmes contained any of these (randomly selected) genres.

Someone else claimed that terrestrial music programmes never represent his taste in music (basically, Warp records). Who in their right mind listens to this shite anyway? This screams of, "I love my music more than you, I've gone to the trouble of hanging around the Record and Tape Exchange scratching my chin and looking at Aphex Twin rarities, whilst never bothering to find about about music that other people like".

No-one ever wins 'my music is better than your music' arguments because music is necessarily linked to experience and taste, so this is definitely not what this thread is about. I suppose I just thought it interesting that many of the women commenting on the programme loved the archive footage, whilst the majority of blokes found it 'not serious enough' or 'not enough men with guitars'.

The upshot of my moping is that I'm always reminded of 'Disco Sucks' every time I hear someone complain about 'lack of rock', which makes my hackles rise every time.