Y'see, every so often, I check to see if there's anybody else out there who noticed that blurb on that album describes how the internet operates. AND, it featured what we then thought of as "computer type" in its headline.
I did steal another VDP gimmick for an album of mine (Ayatollah of Understatement, currently out of print) -- like his Song Cycle, I put lyrics on the cover in a way meant to be mistaken for liner notes.
Another out-of-print album of mine, Turbine Thrust Tests was named sort of in homage to Metal Machine Music. It was also truth in advertising, as that's what the album sounds like. It's a noise CD, for people who want to cover up the ambient sound, but don't want to play music. (But it's not needle-in-the-ear annoying. So it's easynoise.)
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googling on "Van Dyke Parks" "Discover America" and "liner notes" ...
Date: 2007-03-12 05:53 pm (UTC)From:Y'see, every so often, I check to see if there's anybody else out there who noticed that blurb on that album describes how the internet operates. AND, it featured what we then thought of as "computer type" in its headline.
I did steal another VDP gimmick for an album of mine (Ayatollah of Understatement, currently out of print) -- like his Song Cycle, I put lyrics on the cover in a way meant to be mistaken for liner notes.
Another out-of-print album of mine, Turbine Thrust Tests was named sort of in homage to Metal Machine Music. It was also truth in advertising, as that's what the album sounds like. It's a noise CD, for people who want to cover up the ambient sound, but don't want to play music. (But it's not needle-in-the-ear annoying. So it's easynoise.)