On 06-09-97 ALEX DEREVINSKIY wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN... 
 
 AD> -> 2. Space - french studio fakes 
 
 AD> 1.  Pleast don't rag on Space...  They're nice and relaxing to listen 
 AD> to after a hard day of high school.. 
 
        Given that you mention "high school" we could be 
        discussing different bands here. There is a currently 
        popular sort of alternative-ish band by the name of Space 
        that was bigger last year than they are now. However, I 
        was referring to a band called Space that was going in 
        the mid to late 1970's. I don't believe they put out 
        anything after 1980. I have a couple of their albums. I 
        especially like the one with the naked woman with the 
        space helmet on dangling upside down in a New Mexico 
        Desert with what appears to be custard splattered all 
        over the photo. They did some Eno-ish things but also 
        some sort of discoish stuff. 
 
 AD> 2.  If you ARE going to rag on Space, then you should mention a "prog 
 AD> guy or a disco guy or a technopop guy" Jean-Michel Jarre..  His work 
 AD> sounds very similar to Space's.  He's even French, like Space. 
 
        The Space I'm talking about does actually have some 
        similarities to J-M Jarre so maybe we are talking about 
        the same band. As for Jarre (not Maurice, obviously) I 
        did consider including him in the cheese list but I think 
        he walks a very fine line right on the border of cheese 
        and never really committs himself to either side. Just 
        when I think he's hopelessly cheesy he does something 
        tasteful. And vice-versa. It's like watching him tetering 
        drunkenly on a tightrope. I suppose that in part explains 
        my fondness for him, a perverse kind of curiosity, "will 
        he get away with it?" But if you want to maintain Jarre 
        is cheesy you can probably make a convincing case. 
 
        By the way, I don't necessarily hate cheesemusik, it's 
        kind of a guilty pleasure for me at times. I can savour a 
        particularly caseinated morsel of pretentiousness at 
        times. 
 
 AD> 3.  Cheesy technopop = Erasure.  'Nuff said. 
 
        Then there's cheesejazz (John Klemmer) and 
        cheeseclassical (Ketelby, Johann Strauss, Bernstein), 
        cheesefolk (John Denver), cheesefusion (SpyroGyra), 
        cheesespacerock (the Carpenters version of "Calling 
        Occupants of Interplanetary Craft"), cheeseCanterbury 
        (Camel, says he running and ducking), cheeseneoRomantic 
        (Renaissance), it's a whole gestalt, really. There's a 
        whole wide world of cheese out there. 
 
                                Cheese, 
                                Kenneth 
 
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