Friday, February 19, 2010

Oblique Strategies, Vol. 1

There's probably an indie-rock band somewhere that used a Brian Eno-style Oblique Strategy, where they took a bunch of phone messages left by a whiny indie-rock guy, who was trying to get back together with his ex-gf, then transcribed the sounds and cadences of the guy's voice into parts for their guitars and keyboards.  The resulting arrangement would have provoked a deep empathetic response within the chests of their core fanbase, which might have elicited in the artists feelings of either amusement or disgust.

Why won't you return my calls...Why won't  you return my calls...

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