Well let me tell you first that it is a good reply and description of
trainspotter but it seems to me that the effect that you have told us about,
the ways you use to get information show them in all not only in music.
Neuro-linguistic programming describes it as visual and aural perception
which could tell much about you and the things you do. Anyway this type of
view can be practiced by all of us if we try. Than a pure trainspotter can
be changed to Lance or your mine type of perceprion. I mean that I don't
care much about covers usually but if I try it intentionally I might
discover much of amusement and entertainment for myself. In other words,
thanx for sharing your vision.
reAlien
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> From: idm-owner@hyperreal.org [mailto:idm-owner@hyperreal.org]On
> Behalf Of solenoid
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 1:57 AM
> To: Irene McC
> Cc: AeOtaku@aol.com; idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: (idm) Trainspotters Anonymous
>
>
>
> Yeah, I think a trainspotter is someone who knows a ridiculous amount of
> detail about a particular thing/event, and that someone like Lance, who
> keeps an organized database of information, but doesn't necessarily have
> fetishistic levels of information. Lance is like a librarian, not a
> fanatical trainspotter who is into information for information's sake.
>
> I think the trainspotters I've met are more likely to know this exhaustive
> amount of detail of a narrow subject and pride themselves on it, but they
> don't know who JFK is or where the Baltic Sea is or how to catch a bus.
>
> In the 80's, I used to be more like a fanatic/'spotter, but now I
> find I'm interested in so many isolated aspects of music that now I'm sort
> of visually oriented and don't care about the details so much as the
> songs themselves alone, which must sound pretty stupid to the average
> detail-oriented trainspotter:
>
> me:
> "I like that one record with the black label with the picture of the tree
> on it and the second track on side A that goes 'click beep'"
>
> 'spotter:
> "Do you mean The XXX Band on the Y Label, catalogue #DC001.3, recorded in
> Blickyville, ICeland, 1992, before they toured with Current 93?"
>
> me again:
> "Yeah, those guys! Yeah, didn't they do that one in the all-red
> cover with the robot voice and clicking teapots for drums?...yeah, cool,
> that one guy is really tall and they use a bunch of Korg boxes. Yeah,
> they're great, what are they called again, I forgot...? They covered a
> song by those 4 German guys that did that album with the car noises on
> it.. Kraftwerk, you know?"
>
> 'spotter:
> "Never heard of them. If they are not on the Y label, or from
> that area of Iceland, who cares, really..."
>
>
>
> Solenoid
>
>
> On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Irene McC wrote:
>
> > On 1 Oct 99, AeOtaku@aol.com wrote re: (idm) Trainspotters Anonymous:
> >
> > > Just exactly how are we defining trainspotter?
> >
> > To me it's more somebody who knows the name of the guy who
> > was shaking the maraccas on the third track of some group's hard
> > to find second album.
> >
> > That kind of thing.
> >
> > I
> > *
> >
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