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1994-02-21 17:00Pete Ashdown> I don't *dislike* FSOL -- indeed, they're quite pleasant > enough to listen to, but at t

From:: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@slack.sim.es.com>
Date:: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 10:00:46 -0700 (MST)
Subject:: What makes music

quoted 3 lines I don't *dislike* FSOL -- indeed, they're quite pleasant

> I don't *dislike* FSOL -- indeed, they're quite pleasant > enough to listen to, but at this point I've got about > as much background music as I think I'll ever need

It depends on what the foreground is though. I very rarely sit down with headphones on and just *listen* to music. More often than not, I'm cleaning house, driving a car, reading a book, making love, whatever. My memories of AA will always come from blasting it over a barren desert at high volume and knowing that it was being carried for literal miles. At that point, there was nothing more beautiful to me than that combination. Earlier in the night, System 7's "Quest (Moon Mix)" was a perfect background to a crescent moon hanging down in the sky. "Quest" was also background to a certain moment, with a certain someone, at a certain outdoor rave in Seattle. Ahhh, but I wax romantic. Intermix can sometimes be a bit grating while the house is in the foreground. However, driving music it is. Whether it was driving back from Colorado in the worst snowstorm of the year, in a sportscar (ie: not good), or seeing the lights of Las Vegas illuminate the sky 60 miles before I could see the city, it definitely made the foreground unreal and exciting.

quoted 2 lines CJ Bolland, etc., and why I'm (gasp) starting to

> CJ Bolland, etc., and why I'm (gasp) starting to > buy a few rock records again.

Don't feel bad. Items in Pete's last purchase: Two Stan Ridgeway albums, Two Cowboy Junkies albums, T.Rex, and Pretenders.

1994-02-21 18:02Christian BartholdssonPete Ashdown writes: >It depends on what the foreground is though. I very rarely sit down

From:: Christian Bartholdsson <chris@Minsk.DoCS.UU.SE>
Date:: Mon, 21 Feb 94 19:02:23 +0100
Subject:: Re: what makes music

Pete Ashdown writes:

quoted 3 lines It depends on what the foreground is though. I very rarely sit down with

>It depends on what the foreground is though. I very rarely sit down with >headphones on and just *listen* to music. More often than not, I'm cleaning >house, driving a car, reading a book, making love, whatever.

^^^^^^^^^^^^ With headphones on? "Hang on, babe, I've got to fast forward to that Bladerunner sample again..." ;-)

quoted 5 lines CJ Bolland, etc., and why I'm (gasp) starting to

>> CJ Bolland, etc., and why I'm (gasp) starting to >> buy a few rock records again. > >Don't feel bad. Items in Pete's last purchase: Two Stan Ridgeway albums, Two >Cowboy Junkies albums, T.Rex, and Pretenders.

Me: Ry Cooder, Lou Reed, Pretenders, Dusty Springfield... Are we getting old or something? :-) Seriously, maybe the 'intelligent techno' wave has reached its peak? At least for the time being? - chris@minsk.docs.uu.se

What makes music