T.S. Eliot - vs - Portishead
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The music and cadence enveloping Eliots lethargic voice reminds me of some 19th century opium den in India as he leans back against a post with watery bloodshot eyes.
2 years ago 10
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@MyGrammarRules You embody the remark "tedious argument."
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@MaggieDwyer If you don't consider the implications of the poem's "Chinese Drip Torture," then you haven't considered it carefully enough! If you care to make it something it isn't, that's your business. Still, it remains an exceptional exercise in awesomeness. Are you ready to accept life's challenges? No? Then just stop! If you missed the point, then you never really got it anyway! The meaning of the words infiltrate the captivity of the loop. Loops...fuck yeah!
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it makes me die! I literally have a seizure when I contemplate it!
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@MyGrammarRules Who gives a rats ass if you memorized it? The music is mind numbing, burying the beauty of the words. If you personally are parroting the poem, perhaps you don't notice this, but if you want to think about and hear the beauty of the words you SHOULDN'T have to try to hear them over the Chinese drip torture of that mindless repetition of the "music" that competes with the voice.
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I dare disturb the universe! This...transcends.
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@MaggieDwyer Utterly preposterous! I've memorized all 131 lines of this poem, and I assure you that the music is undeniably perfect.
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Brian Eno goes better with this poem
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At 4.44 the music fits the rythm of his speaking perfectly...it was a moment of revelation within the whole thing! Epic! :) x
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damn addictive
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well done dude...............
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Congenial, monolitic... But maybe a little bit faint, isn't it? Think a short break of chaos and noise between verses would make it more lively... But when I hear it, must only regret that Eliot and Portishead didnť really meet and produce something like taht... Thanks
brzw11 1 year ago
@brzw11 You want chaos? Eliot's 'The Waste Land' seems like it was edited by Richard D James and then edited again by Squarepusher.
hyperlexic2 1 year ago 4
The idea is interesting, but the music is wrong, too loud for this recorded voice, and way too repetetive.
MaggieDwyer 2 years ago 2
@MaggieDwyer absolutely would sound better with some mastering, but i think that would miss the point. Eliot is describing a man who never 'dared' and lived a repetitive, mundane and predictable life. And now he's old. I thought the music complimented this 'regret' of a trivial life.
hyperlexic2 1 year ago 5
@hyperlexic2 Trivial?
olmgitnhftws 1 year ago
@olmgitnhftws That's how I interpret what is going on in Prufrock's mind as he thinks about his life.
hyperlexic2 1 year ago