Matmos live in NYC- Roses and Teeth for Ludwig Wittgenstein

10/14/06
Live at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space. Featuring So Percussion and Zeena Parkins.

http://www.brainwashed.com/matmos
http://www.sopercussion.com
http://www.zeenaparkins.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• matmos
• roses
• wittgenstein
• solanas
• parkins
• sopercussion

[Sigil23]

This is fabulous....for all of you who may be unfamiliar with Wittgenstein, the lyrics sound like something straight from the Tractatus (albeit more nonsensical). Basically, these guys don't just create wonderful things; they also know what they're talking about.

[crowkangi]

damn geniuses!

[TheVirginQueenShane]

@HisW1tness Oh, It doesn't make you a "dick". "Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly." — Ludwig Wittgenstein

[HisW1tness]

@TheVirginQueenShane Doh! I had just begun the Tractatus at the time of posting. Now I'm all the way through the Investigations and see myself for the dick I was.

[TheVirginQueenShane]

@Sigil23 Actually it's from the Philosophical Investigations. The Anti-thesis to the tractatus.

[cemilhilton]

Saw them live somewhere else but have to admit this looks and sounds better, I'm jealous.

[documonster]

u downplay your grammar with yer wit! veyyy Matmos!

[PumpkinzZz]

brilliant.

i was surprised listening the chorus in italian at 5:17 saying "La rosa ha denti nella bocca della bestia", does someone knows why in italian?

[wbarco]

when we say that a goose or a newborn child has no teeth we do not mean that it has no teeth on its arm or wherever. we mean that it has no teeth in its mouth. since a rose is physically close to teeth in the mouth of beast... then someone who said that a rose has teeth in the mouth of a beast could not be said to be uttering an absurdity because we don't in advance know where a rose's teeth "should be" for it to count as actually having teeth. you don't have to agree, but that's the basic point

[jacobmusil1822]

NO!!! This was written by Ludwig Witgenstein... The guys this song is dedicated to. It says that rose's teeth are in a cow's mouth because the cow dung the rose with the food that it chewed before. So, rose has teeth in the mouth of a beast. The cow chews the food for the rose.