From Chris.Hilker Sent Sat, Nov 1st 1997, 04:20
From Chris.Hilker Sent Sat, Nov 1st 1997, 04:20
>Your response leads me to ask one simple question: What's the point of a >tracklisting anyway, other than to refer the track by name to someone >else? Tracknames are so trivial these days. Especially for a band like >Autechre, does it make such a huge difference? In the case of Autechre, yes, track titles don't make a big difference, since theirs tend to seem fairly arbitrary. But in other cases, titles can illuminate the intentions and meaning behind a track. Case in point: Orbital's 'In Sides.' The emotional content in "Adnan's" carries more weight (for me, at least) in light of the fact that the title is the name of a young victim of the Bosnian civil war. It puts that heartbreaking, keening synth line that runs through much of the song in perspective. Similarly, "Dwr Budr" is Welsh for "dirty water," which suggests that on one level, that track refers to a then-recent oil spill off the coast of Wales. To me, the track presents the spill from the point of view of a sea creature, as a clouding over of one's surroundings, like a grimy fog. It's really a shame that some artists don't put more thought into what they choose to call their tracks, but I hope I've shown that titles at least have the potential to offer more than simple identification. C. -- Chris.Hilker (xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx) "Sex is the darndest nougat murder, something something e-mail something something la la la la beable beable trousers and dingaling nougat..."