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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
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Posted: Fri Dec  7 16:45:47 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 06:13:51 EST
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Reply-To: strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine)
Distribution: net.music
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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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.