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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
Sure.
See the problem for me is that parrallel lines don't actually ever meet, if they do, they're not parallel. So the idea that the two can coexist can't be true.
Thats all good and fine, if thats where it ended I'd say "clever was so 1999" or something else psuedo-homosexual and walk it off.
But these guys give me the impression that they think this is pretty deep. But like any other oxymoron, its just stupid. I don't expect album titles to do much more than distringuish one album from another. if you want to give a title to address the theme, more power to you.
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OK I can see what you're saying here...but would this be a reason to not listen to an entire album?
Isn't that the quintessence of "judging a book by its cover"?
It would seem to me that the more 'ridiculous' an album title may appear, the more I would be inclined to listen to see what was going on inside...then I could make an intelligent judgment. And by intelligent judgment, it would seem that one would need to listen to all songs, and not just one song. There are many different types of musical genres in this album it would be extremely unfair to MRI as artists to merely judge one song.
I can't speak for the band as to what "Where Parallel Lines Meet" exactly means and I wish one of them were here to provide a definitive answer, but I do remember in the course of the interview Daren mentioning something about "perspectives" so that is why the back CD cover makes perfect sense to me.
Had you the chance to listen to the live radio interview ( iTunes rebroadcast ) that I posted in here? If you were to listen to Daren ( the MRI segment is about 2 1/2 hours into the rebroadcast so you need to ff to it ) you will hear someone that is not sounding like he is trying to be "too deep"; I have met these guys and you can even see in my interview transcript ( also posted in this thread ) that it is hard to get a serious answer out of any of them. This is the exact reason I posted my interview as I wanted to show how pleasantly surprised I was that they were so cool and down-to-earth, and not "pretentious artists"; trust me, I have met many an artist who thinks he is "too deep" for the world. I could easily imagine MRI saying that it means whatever you want it to mean...or even nothing at all.
Maybe I should have posted the lyrics for each song as that may have helped. Interesting discussion of lyrics to "Helicopter Head" going on here at their label's video channel:
YouTube - "Helicopter Head" MRI Music Video
I myself was obsessed by the obscure lyrics until I downloaded and read them.
I will admit even I thought "Helicopter Head" was a dumb name for a song at first LOL :-)