I think it makes perfect grammatical sense, if you look at "note" as being a
unit of measure for the rottenness of music. Like, "Squarepusher drops his
latest depraved creation and thus, the institution of popular MUSIC IS
ROTTED ONE NOTE."
Ed
NP: Sqpr/NorthCircular
WP: Sterolab/Cybele'sReverieMaxiSingle
Peter Hollo wrote:
quoted 18 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.
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> "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.