From Edward Nilges Sent Wed, Oct 14th 1998, 20:05
From Edward Nilges Sent Wed, Oct 14th 1998, 20:05
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: > 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 xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx 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.