Sometimes I come across the most crack-tastic CDs at work...
by MtWS
Okay, so I'm compiling a database of uncatalogued CDs at the music library, right? And I come across these gems:
1) "Anarchic Harmonies": works by John Cage and Girolomo Frescobaldi (okay, I suppose you have to be a music person to get how whacked-out that combination is) for accordion and trombone. I ask you: why?
2) More New Blues for Piano: This doesn't sound too unusual, right? But it's one of those annoying CDs where you have to look at the liner notes to figure out who's playing what, so in doing this I come across the following sentence: Jacob ter Veldhuis' [a name that just screams "blues," doncha know] Off & On Situation Blues makes use of voice samples taken from crack-addict hookers appearing on the Jerry Springer Show." A co-worker and I just had to listen to this piece, and we both agree that that it's about the most wonderful thing ever written. The notes are multilingual, too, so that sentence also appears as...
Dutch: "In ter Vedhuis' Off & On Situation Blues wordt gebruik gemaakt van stemsamples, afkomstig van aan crack varslaafde hoeren die in de Jerry Springer Show optraden."
French: "Dans Off & On Situation Blues de Ter Veldhuis, il est fait usasge de samples de voix, extraits d'enregistrements de prostituées toxicomane, utilatrices de crack, faits lors de l'émission de télévision intitulée Jerry Springer Show."
German: "In dem Werk Off & On Situation Blues von ter Veldhuis werden Stimmensamples eingesetzt. Es sin die Stimmen von crackabhängigen Huren, die in der Jerry Springer Show auftraten."
This has absolutely made my day.
Posted on Dec 8, 2002, 10:45 PM from IP address 128.186.53.124