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07:55 pm June 29th, 2004
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Songs of Innocence and Experience
Any further takers on my intros quiz?

Currently out in the lead is [info]vin_petrol, former metal uber-führer and mainstay of University Radio York's rock show, with 28 points: dare anyone pretend to his hard-lovin', hard-rockin', hard-livin' crown?

I think [info]everild and [info]miss_wonderly should have a go, personally, as they should both do pretty well... Hope they're not chicken. ;-p

Update! Well, with a little prodding, [info]everild has indeed taken the plunge, and has proceeded, with a rather stunningly impressive 31 points, into a commanding lead!

Katherine is also the only person so far to have identifed the song in number 5 correctly. So far, though, absolutely no-one has recognized song or artist on number 14.

At any rate, I'll unscreen the comments and give answers and final scores tomorrow.

Dear me, when I go all \m/ in my diction and lexis it always makes me want to end every sentence with 'motha-FUCKER' with the emphasis on the second disyllable like I've written it, but that's really rather unseemly, so I'll restrain myself to 'dude' and merely sound like Bill and Ted, dude.

By the way, where's the title of this post from? A pint to the first person who spots it without cheating. I have a horrible feeling just now that I may have used it before as the title of a post. Oh God, repeating myself... *sigh*
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Thread started by Ephemera
ephemera From: [info]ephemera Date: June 29th, 2004 07:13 pm (UTC) (Link)
you mean apart from William Blake?

[and tangenting to your last post - of course, no stress, thank you for the warning, and may your circumstances change for the better sooner rather than later.]
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childeric From: [info]childeric Date: June 29th, 2004 08:39 pm (UTC) (Link)
Looks like I owe you a pint! ;-) You can redeem it next B-Movie.
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Thread started by Meredith L. Patterson
maradydd From: [info]maradydd Date: June 29th, 2004 07:18 pm (UTC) (Link)
William Blake is certainly the earliest instance of it. I've seen a reprint of the original, with all his weird colour plates and things.
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childeric From: [info]childeric Date: June 29th, 2004 08:50 pm (UTC) (Link)
Blake was *really* strange, but incredibly talented.

There was a wonderful exhibition of his stuff at the Tate Gallery in London about four years ago which you'd have loved if you like him.
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maradydd From: [info]maradydd Date: June 29th, 2004 08:53 pm (UTC) (Link)
Ooh, that would have been very cool. I took a graduate-level literature course on him a few years ago, and still have the omnibus edition of his poetry that we used as the text.

I've often thought it would be interesting to write a Big Fat Fantasy Novel set in a world where all the mythology and magic and stuff was drawn straight from Blake.
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childeric From: [info]childeric Date: June 30th, 2004 07:14 am (UTC) (Link)
In a slightly different vein, in 1998 Bruce Dickinson released a concept album, 'The Chemical Wedding', entirely based on Blake.
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sushidog From: [info]sushidog Date: June 29th, 2004 09:11 pm (UTC) (Link)
There is some suggestion that he suffered from schizophrenia, apparently.
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childeric From: [info]childeric Date: June 29th, 2004 09:49 pm (UTC) (Link)
Well, he was certainly distinctly odd. Which isn't the same thing, of course. ;)

I'm always a little bit hesitant about people saying that they can diagnose mental health conditions in the dead, but I suppose there are fairly reliable reports of what Blake got up to, and he left an immense body of work by which to study his mental state. It's an interesting speculation, at any rate.
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zotz From: [info]zotz Date: June 29th, 2004 10:36 pm (UTC) (Link)
He seemed to hallucinate, but that could be other things too. Temporal-lobe epilepsy, offhand, although possibly that doesn't fit him in other ways. Or maybe it wasn't any pathology, but just him being Very Strange and Incredibly Inspired.

I'm a big fan of Paolozzi, who based his statue of Newton on one of Blake's drawings.
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steer From: [info]steer Date: June 29th, 2004 11:22 pm (UTC) (Link)
There's a school of thought which says that people who see angels clapping their hands and ascending to heaven are, in some way, mentally disfunctional. Such people have no poetry in their soul. I prefer to believe that Blake could see angels better than most.
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childeric From: [info]childeric Date: June 30th, 2004 07:17 am (UTC) (Link)
My visionary is your eccentric is his madman.

It's hard to call.
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Thread started by Mel
sheepthief From: [info]sheepthief Date: June 29th, 2004 07:22 pm (UTC) (Link)
I left my guesses so far at work, and don't know enough to enter I think. Did anyone else get the one I mentioned?
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childeric From: [info]childeric Date: June 29th, 2004 08:47 pm (UTC) (Link)
Yes, a couple of people have got that now.

So far absolutely no-one has got 14 (the difficult old industrial one) right, and no-one's got the song for 5 (the ultra-widdly guitar solo).

But you should still go for it. I'll unveil the answers tomorrow sometime.
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sheepthief From: [info]sheepthief Date: June 29th, 2004 08:55 pm (UTC) (Link)
Hmmm. I've no idea on either of those I'm afraid. Bah. You just wait until I roll out my 80's one. =:-p
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twicezero From: [info]twicezero Date: June 29th, 2004 11:10 pm (UTC) (Link)
funny, track 14 sounds like pot sounds by meat beat manifesto but sped up, but oddly, i don't think it is. Maybe the MBM track is a tribute to it? (if so it shouldn't sound like it at all er?)
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steer From: [info]steer Date: June 30th, 2004 09:13 am (UTC) (Link)
Funnily enough I didn't recognise 14 but I liked it. Kind of KMFDMy.
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childeric From: [info]childeric Date: June 30th, 2004 09:17 am (UTC) (Link)
All shall be revealed soon...
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Thread started by Goddess of the Destructive Aspect of the Kitten
kekhmet From: [info]kekhmet Date: June 29th, 2004 07:30 pm (UTC) (Link)
I see others have beat me to the answer of William Blake

as for reapeating post titles - thanks to the ever helpful (;-P ) mozilla form completion it was drawn to my attention that I was doing the same thing myself today. with differing subtitles though, and differing degrees of post accesability, as I recalled the prior post of the same title, and it was custom not public
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childeric From: [info]childeric Date: June 29th, 2004 08:53 pm (UTC) (Link)
Repetition isn't a bad thing at all. If a line's good, it doesn't cease to be good a second time, just so long as you change your audience often enough...
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Comment by Katherine
From: [info]everild Date: June 29th, 2004 10:25 pm (UTC) (Link)
Katherine is also the only person so far to have identifed the song in number 5 correctly

It's not exactly one of my faves, but I've been out with enough boys who like widdly-widdly stuff by now to know it. I always though it was rather a self-indulgent piece really...

Glad to hear I haven't shown myself up after you threw down the gauntlet so publicly ;-p Will be interested to find out what the other ones were!
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Comment by Trizia
trizia From: [info]trizia Date: June 29th, 2004 11:15 pm (UTC) (Link)
The head of the English department at Leicester Uni is from Birmingham, and he gave the lectures on Blake when I was there - it was hugely amusing to hear
Blake's mystical wierdness recited in a braod Brum accent :-) It is how I always hear it in my head now.

Blake's sketches/paintings are gorgeous.
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Thread started by Vin Petrol
vin_petrol From: [info]vin_petrol Date: June 30th, 2004 08:22 am (UTC) (Link)
I am glad [info]everild chose to play. She was the one person I really thought could beat me, and if I had come top without her trying it would have been a hollow victory...

Interesting story about song 5 though. I heard it and thought "I'm almost certain I know what that is, but I don't have a copy." So I went to a *cough* file sharing service and typed name and band in, and downloaded a file which was very popular on that service. I played it, and it precisely matched the intro you gave, which meant my answer was correct ... only it appears it wasn't! I don't have the original on CD or vinyl to check, so it looks like there's a mis-named file out there on this file sharing service. Interesting...
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childeric From: [info]childeric Date: June 30th, 2004 09:13 am (UTC) (Link)
ach, no, sorry, you're absolutely right. You did give the right song for 5, and I marked it as correct. I'd just forgotten that when I wrote the post. Sorry!
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Thread started by Purplehoffen von Stuartstrasse
purplestuart From: [info]purplestuart Date: June 30th, 2004 10:06 pm (UTC) (Link)
Have had a go, don't think i was as good at this one as i feel i might of been on [info]dj_alexander's one
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childeric From: [info]childeric Date: June 30th, 2004 10:17 pm (UTC) (Link)
You weren't bad at all though! And you also got the correct artist for no. 14, which absolutely no-one else has managed! Much kudos!
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purplestuart From: [info]purplestuart Date: June 30th, 2004 10:37 pm (UTC) (Link)
I might have to do one of these music intro quizes myself (when i find the time), what did you use to cut the mp3s up with? i can create short mp3s but have no software to chop'em up if i only have those tracks on mp3.

Am plotting now, the danger really is making the quiz too obscure it isn't fun for anyone...
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childeric From: [info]childeric Date: June 30th, 2004 10:50 pm (UTC) (Link)
Go for it, yes, you should! Not too hard, though!

I used a little tool called mp3cutter, which seemed to work pretty well, and which I got from [info]sheepthief, who kindly made it available here for download.
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