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You may have noticed that the three music related posts contain within Their titles a joke, minus the first line.

The joke is this:
Author: I’m writing a book
Critic: What’s it Sbout?
Author: It’s about 400 pages.
*Pause*
Author: They all serve the same nobleman.

The first 3 lines are a classic joke, conflating the two meanings of the word “about” the critic meaning what’s the topic and the author replying with the approximate length of the work. The additional line however re-contextualises the author’s reply, by implying that the author correctly interpreted the context of the word “about” but that we as an audience (and from the silent pause, the critic also) incorrectly interpreted the meaning of the word “pages” which could mean a side of paper in a book bit could also mean a servant to nobility. Hence About 400 Pages is a post regarding a lack of topic, a book about the properties of the book if you will. Shows which repeat the same theme over and over on the other hand, is touched upon in They All Serve The Same Nobleman, which is a more obvious reference. Then finally I ended the series on What’s it About, which touched upon how to create cohesion between effects without hanging them on a single peg, by looking for connections between different effects and creating a flow.

Because of the huge time gap between the first two and the last one I kind of lost my flow and in the intervening time my focus was drawn by… other things.

Which is why my next post will be about the Magic Circle’s exposure rule.

Whereas the two previous posts in this series have been about genres of music, this post is dedicated to the living genius Neil Cicierega, who created the three greatest albums in the world.

Those links aren’t Spotify playlists like the others by the way, those are links to download the albums, made freely available by Neil himself.

Because sometimes you gotta mix it up a bit.

Continue reading “Somebody once told me
or What’s it about?”

Oh did you think the “continued in part 2” was a joke?

Consider the following:

It it hadn’t been for Cotton Eyed Joe, I’d have been married a long time ago. Where did he come from, where did he go? Where did you come from, Cotton Eyed Joe?

Do you remember Rednex’s 2nd single?

Continue reading “Cotton Eye Joe
or They all serve the same nobleman”

Back in the late 90s I was very fond of a song I heard on the radio called Nth Degree. I bought the single and after a while humming it wasn’t enough and I wanted to learn the lyrics. That’s when I realised what a bloody awful song it was and promptly never listened to it again.

The problem, you understand, is that the song was about the band, which sadly was named Morningwood.

This is the point when I tell you that this post has a Spotify playlist associated with it, so you can listen along. I will warn you though, some of the music is terrible.

Continue reading “The Vengabus is coming
or About 400 pages”