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From:
Bill VanLoo
To:
Peter Hollo
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Date:
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 09:36:42 -0400
Subject:
Re: (idm) Music is Rotted One Note
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My first thought was that it was another in the line of weirdy-beardy anagrams (Hangable Auto Bulb, Visible Crater Funk or whatever the first plug record was called, etc), but I couldn't get anything out of it. Anybody wanna give it a try? Bill Peter Hollo wrote:
quoted 19 lines What's the problem with this title? Doesn't anybody else realise that> > What's the problem with this title? Doesn't anybody else realise that > "Music is One Rotted Note" is no more grammatically correct that the > other way round: it shouldn't be "Rotted" in that case but "Rotten". And > even then, what sort of semantic sense does it make? > Why complain? It seems to me that the way it's phrased is deliberately > to sound kooky and foreign, and half-correcting the grammar is just > missing the point. > I'd much rather be told more about what the album's like - all I know is > "live instruments" and "weird" really so far... I guess I'll have to > give it a listen first when it arrives in Australian shops. > > Peter. > -- > Peter Hollo raven@fourplay.com.au http://www.fourplay.com.au/me.html > FourPlay - Eclectic Electric String Quartet > http://www.fourplay.com.au > "Of course, dance music can be a music where you lie on your back and > your brain cells dance" -Michael Karoli of Can, quoted in Wire mag.
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