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Original post: Othering and Other Artists.
The source post demonstrates with music, which, given yesterday's discussion of sound and Lovecraft, is fine to continue with. Not to be flippant, but there's a resonant line in an episode of 'The Venture Brothers': " No, no, no, you're not ready to step into The Court of the Crimson King. At this stage in your training an album like that could turn you into an evil scientist."
You know how some people in their late 20s-mid-30s were raised by parents who listened to the Beatles? Mine listened to Yes, and Cream, and Blue Öyster Cult and, yes, King Crimson. I can't hum more than a few bars of 'Hey Jude' but Aqualung comes on Rock Band and I don't need to look at the screen. The combination of willingness to deviate from the standard format of what consists of a song, as well as what was appropriate to sing about at the time - be it fantasy epics, space, or the unsavory parts of real life - made it transgressive and the form it took was often ethereal.
Other types of artists which I suggest fall into this same experimental mold include Fluxus musicians such as Nurse With Wound and Fantomas, in particular 'Delirium Cordia'; over an hour long, starting with the sounds of medical equipment.
Original post: Othering and Other Artists.
The source post demonstrates with music, which, given yesterday's discussion of sound and Lovecraft, is fine to continue with. Not to be flippant, but there's a resonant line in an episode of 'The Venture Brothers': " No, no, no, you're not ready to step into The Court of the Crimson King. At this stage in your training an album like that could turn you into an evil scientist."
You know how some people in their late 20s-mid-30s were raised by parents who listened to the Beatles? Mine listened to Yes, and Cream, and Blue Öyster Cult and, yes, King Crimson. I can't hum more than a few bars of 'Hey Jude' but Aqualung comes on Rock Band and I don't need to look at the screen. The combination of willingness to deviate from the standard format of what consists of a song, as well as what was appropriate to sing about at the time - be it fantasy epics, space, or the unsavory parts of real life - made it transgressive and the form it took was often ethereal.
Other types of artists which I suggest fall into this same experimental mold include Fluxus musicians such as Nurse With Wound and Fantomas, in particular 'Delirium Cordia'; over an hour long, starting with the sounds of medical equipment.
