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From:
Tom Millar
To:
eric hill
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Date:
Tue, 06 Jul 1999 22:39:12 -0400
Subject:
Re: (idm) Re: Flanger
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quoted 11 lines There is subtlety coming out of this album's Digipak ass hole. The> >There is subtlety coming out of this album's Digipak ass hole. The > >problem is that there is nothing else. Subtlety without some sort of big > >mess on top to differentiate it is nothing to me. Essentially, what I'm > >trying to say is that subtle factors are relative, not intrinsic to the > >sounds or styles themselves, and Atom Heart seems to have forgotten this > >a while back. He bares the intellectually-challenging tidbits to the > >sunlight for blatant perusal by every listener. > > since you can't have subtlety without something relative to bounce it off > of, this album doesn't qualify as subtle. without subtlety, it has to be > obvious. obviously what, i don't know yet.
Well, that's what I meant, pretty much. Aren't semantics just super? They're nouny and adjectivous all simultaneous-like. Tom