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Originally Posted by Surell
Nope, but I learned about them. Same way you learned about them. Any less relevant? No. Moving on.
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If you learned about them the same way I did then how can you know their artistic predilections if I didn't?
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Dada is a pretty embracing movement to take on when you're trying to counter the previous movements. It actually traces back to some of the Beatles' and Bowie's songwriting, which doesn't seem like their biggest points of inspiration; though Bowie helped the Stooges out and the Beatles took from Phil Spector, they highlighted proggier elements of music that I don't think Punk rock would have exactly wanted to take cues from.
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No, you're thinking of Magritte. Paul is a big Magritte fan. That's not dada, I hope you know. Magritte was not a dadaist. There's a big difference between:
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Now, gee, which picture would you be more likely to see on a punk album cover? We already know which one appeared on a prog band's album cover (although not a very good prog band IMO),