Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!fortune!strock From: strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: the top-40 approach to life Message-ID: <4755@fortune.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 16:45:47 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.4755 Posted: Fri Dec 7 16:45:47 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 06:13:51 EST References: <3268@mit-eddie.UUCP> Reply-To: strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine) Distribution: net.music Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 13 Summary: >>I buy more 45s than I do albums. > >Personally, I think >that the concept behind singles sucks. > If you're not looking for meaning in music, i.e, >you just want some background noise to stop you from thinking, then >listening to singles is probably adequate. I don't see the correlation between a song's length and its value as "meaning something". Sometimes when I make a tape I'll lift just one line from a song, well aware of how it relates to the songs that precede and follow it on the tape, imposing my own meaning.