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   Message 43,975 of 45,517   
   Peter J Ross to Will Dockery   
   Re: "Metamorphoses" -Ovid   
   21 Dec 25 22:55:05   
   
   From: pjr@example.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-21, Will Dockery  wrote:   
      
   > Peter J Ross  posted:   
   >> On 2025-12-20, Will Dockery  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > And, as mentioned earlier, one of the greatest Rolling Stones albums,   
   >> > released in the Summer of 1975 at the height of my Stones fandom, was   
   >> > "Metamorphosis":   
   >> >   
   >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis_(Rolling_Stones_album)   
   >>   
   >> It's a pathetic jumble of feeble out-takes, released without the band's   
   >> approval in order to cash in on their fame.   
   >   
   > Still better than most rock and roll of the era.   
      
   Still worse than any other album attributed to the Rolling Stones.   
      
   >> "One must pity the artists for this minor humiliation..." - /Rolling   
   >> Stone/   
   >   
   > Rolling Stone Magazine often gets it wrong.   
      
   Not this time.   
      
   >> > So I can see how the confusion comes in, with so many relatively   
   >> > recent works using that spelling for a title.   
   >>   
   >> with abysmal taste in music   
   >   
   > What?   
   >   
   > You're a Brit with no love for the Rolling Stones, PJR?   
      
   I'm an admirer of the Rolling Stones. I'm not an admirer of trash they   
   discarded.   
      
   --   
   PJR :-)   
      
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