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Originally Posted by Terrible Lizard
@Satchy
"Pretentious" is the excuse and you know it. Beefheart most likely made it see the "pretentious" artsy ***s spend empty nights trying to find some meaning in it.
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There is absurdism, or dadaism, which can very often be both musical, artistic, and more impotantly authentic (aka The Residents, eh sometimes.), and then there's just pretense. This album isn't absurdism or dadaism, it "sounds like" absurdism & dadaism, like someone
trying, very hard, to
sound absurd. It's that "trying" that is the pretense that comes across to me so heavily on this record. It's very fake.
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...nobody tries to make [The Residents] out to be these untouchable poetic geniuses.
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I do.