Bogosphere vs. Peelite Faction/Spector vs. Rector

[hirez]

There's one of them meme-things trolling about that invites (as if people need much persuading. It's the online version of a game of Plomley[1]) you to grovel through your local MP3 cache for the five songs with the strangest names

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[hirez]

Yes avocadopx mentioned it when perpetrating yon meme-thing, which is what set me off in the first place. I'm all for random reminders of the corners of my record-pile.

[hirez]

Or indeed avocadovpx. Arse!

[tails_redux]

[1] Am I going to have to explain the rules?
You may even have to explain MP3 cache to an musical/technical ignoramous like me ;)

[figg]

My guess: Local repository of mp3s. I assume he might mean an mp3 player of sorts or basically what you have to hand.

[hirez]

Exactly so.

[tails_redux]

I don't have a working computer at home. The only music I own is a Curtis Mayfield CD. Guess I'm exempt from playing this game.

[figg]

Ondioline was a name of a synth made famous by jean jacques perrey, and lots of the random noise bursts (like the bit of one note samba) from transient stereo announcements with random noise bursts are from him.;

[hirez]

Might I point to this: http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/

... which is just full of good things. Such as the small child standing next to the Telharmonium rotor. Such things have not been seen since the last ELP stadium tour.

[quercus]

Oh, I don't know. Last night inulro and I heard the drummer from The Jesus and Mary Chain duetting on musical saw whilst wearing a suit and tie.

And that was only the 3rd least-weird muso last night.

[quercus]

Isn't there a telharmonium rotor sitting outside Jarkman's shed?

Or is it just crashed undercarriage bits from a large Boeing?

[siani_hedgehog]

i hated Music Has The right To Children. actually writing songs is a real rare talent. Boards of Canada do not possess it.

[hirez]

Well, if you're after a proper tune you can whistle where the singers don't look like girls, I suspect you may well be better served on a different LJ where they don't hoot with derision at that sort of thing.

[siani_hedgehog]

*shrugs* i know how to use Logic and Cubase. i was amazed someone paid any attention to it Boards of Canada. it's not clever. it's not creative. it has no craftsmanship. it does not show any spark of genius. what's the point of it, other than as you say, for sad old Guardian readers to impress each other with?

[jinxremoving]

hi, i need the rules of plomley explained.

[hirez]

By your command.

[jinxremoving]

beautiful.

in the moment it took before i twigged that you'd done a new post, i assumed that plomley was some kind of nonsensical game that involved saying cryptic things rather than explaining anything.

[hirez]

Ta. One does try.