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Well, if you believe that by piecing together fragments of sentences gathered from the web you can construct a discourse, good for you. However, what you've written is something else entirely: 1) Fundamental minimalist guru: The fact that a meaningless phrase like that could then patch together one with all those scraps (some of which contradict what you say) is amusing, but it seems you have no intention of reasoning through the issues; rather, like on many other occasions, you react with irritation. 2) "punk": the quotes don't save the otherwise improper use of the term. Meanwhile, the definition you provide bears no concrete correspondence; it is generic and includes an unspecified avant-garde that you equate to punk because it is sacrilegious. This is obviously absurd, ahistorical, instrumental, and useful only for creating confusion: but it seems more convenient than trying to analyze things seriously.

Ghemison, with all due sympathy, you've kind of missed the mark. Forget about old Piero, it's only rock'roll, in the urban swamp version (back then, the term Psychobilly was used to mean a twisted version of rockabilly). I liked this about as much as "Songs...", even if it was more "fun." I even saw them live years later: they had a girl on bass who was apparently wanted in a couple of states for attempted murder, and even though they were in their "declining" phase, they made quite an impact (Lux was a monkey hanging from the speaker tower with the microphone almost completely shoved down his throat)—P.S. Regarding Tuxedomoon: if you’ve never heard them, I recommend you get Half Mute and Desire; if you know them, I don’t know how you came up with that description for them, but that also seems quite "off" to me. There are some good reviews of those records in DeB. Bai bai.

And on the 2nd I "missed" it, so I'll make it right.

Yes, I misread it, trained. So I retract the part related to that term (at least it acknowledges a bit of "preparation" and "gymnastics"). Clearly, by the time I reached the end of the page and encountered the definition of punk, my vision was already blurred.

Rereading, I wonder how the term minimalist came to your mind for John Cage. Anyway, besides indulging in a display of curious images and metaphors, I believe that when writing, one must somehow respect the work of the musician being discussed, provided one respects it, of course, and at least give an idea of the nature and proportions of it. We’re not dealing with a slacker who has released two albums to be alternative and impress the kids, but with a lady who has been conducting research on voice, body, and language for a lifetime. Well, this outburst is even excessive, but sometimes I don’t even feel like holding back.

Well, the closing is inadequate to say the least, frankly absurd. I don't understand the need to use words like punk and alienated, unless it's to achieve some truly unnecessary and misleading "effect." There is nothing more distant from alienation or punk (whatever definition one chooses to give to that term) than the rigorous work of this lady. There wasn't even a page dedicated to this great musician, and honestly, this one, while capturing the effect of a superficial listening of her work in some parts, seems very inadequate and approximate to me. I'm rather harsh because I admire Meredith Monk and her coherent and almost forty-year-long career.

Poletti, why don’t you just stop? No one talked about it BECAUSE ANGIE IS ON GOATS HEAD SOUP, released in 1973. But is it possible for you not to manage to avoid talking about albums you’ve never heard? How can a song that is NOT ON the record be the cornerstone of the album?

Fusillo, if you take a small piece of advice, get a listen to the first one, songs to remember 8 (there’s a review in DeB). Very unusual compared to the things that came out at that time, soft and easy, but we old DeUsers agree that it’s a nice album (in that review there was a nostalgic corner opened among the comments, it seems to me).

Rodney, was it a statement or a question? - Yes, but I don't have any records of either one or the other. Any advice on that?

:) Caz, the old man, on some days is quite grumpy and he gobbles up the chubby ones without batting an eye. Then I'll tell you.