As published in The Paris Review: click
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Mr. Elk,
Enjoyed the article, thank you.
Now, if I could remember what my wife just said. :
Chas
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Interesting article, thank you Elk! I definitely agree with listening to music while driving, a lot of times I can connect with the music better, even though it can sound nothing like the home system. Iâm curious Elk, how much you agree with the points made, given your semi-professional musician status. I know you donât listen to music in the car, but you probably listen a lot different than I do.
I agree with everything in the article. It nicely fleshes out my previous comment that if one listens solely emotionally, or intellectually, you are missing 50% of the music.
While I agree with the suggestion to listen to lyrics, I do not do it. I do not care. I have a great deal of trouble understanding sung lyrics in any event. I also listen to little pop.
I particularly agree with listen more than once. When playing a piece of music new to me, even of a composer with whom I am intimately familiar, it often takes multiple passes before I understand the piece. This is true for me when I am only listening as well.
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@Elk:
Itâs a shame you donât care for âpop musicâ or to follow the lyrics. You will never be able to enjoy the dulcet tones and profound poetry of Beck. Such as:
âAnd my time is a piece of wax fallinâ on a termite
Thatâs chokinâ on the splintersâ
-- Beck, "Loser"
Thatâs high art right there, Sir!
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No question!
I know a great deal of pop however as many restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations, etc. come with a music track. I am unable to not listen to music so I learn a lot throughout the day.
The article writer also left out half the Chorus on Loser, which as far as I can tell is a Spanish translation of âIâm a loserâ - âSooooy un perdedorâ.
Props for discussing it in the article, though.
Props also to Elk for his witty reply to Amsco15âs Johnny Cash post on Spinning Now a bit ago, where Amsco wrote, âJohnny Cash could nail melon collie like few others.â
To which Elk replied, âI have never heard his covers of The Smashing Pumpkins.â
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Going to send that to my daughter who fell hard for that Pumpkins record when I gave it to her as a teenager.
It was a popular and influential album, as was the cover artwork. (If you do not know the story of the artwork it is worth looking it up.)
Wow. So cool. Had never read about the artwork. It was just one of those fully realized pieces of artâŚrequired no explanation. They were so huge/local in Chicago at the time (Iâd moved there around 7 years earlier) and blew up with that record. Fun stuff!
Makes me want to get the vinyl box just for the artwork. Have always loathed CDs re: artwork unless they really exploited the medium properly. 3 pt. type of the lyrics? MehâŚ
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And now an almost completely unrelated piece of S.P. information. A tile setter friend of mine whoâs sailboat I was doing some repair work to was building a bathroom for one of the band members reno or new house build. The time frame completely eludes me though. It was most likely late â90âs.
The timing sounds correct.
Thanks. I didnât mean to drag the thread so far off course but the story came to mind and I thought this crowd might enjoy it. My friend started an around the world sailing trip shortly after finishing that house. The last I heard he had made it to Vietnam and was staying there for an undetermined amount of time.
Back on subject now.
1995 release, I believe.
Same here. Walking and listening is great too.