Cage Against The Machine
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Topic: Cage Against The Machine
Posted By: Textbook
Subject: Cage Against The Machine
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 14:15
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Thought some people here might be interested in this- remember the online campaign last year that saw Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name Of successfully defeat Simon Cowell's latest saccharine pop single on the Christmas charts?
They're doing it again this year with John Cage's 4'33, which if you didn't know, is a "song" of absolute silence.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/05/cage-against-machine-silence-christmas - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/05/cage-against-machine-silence-christmas
Will be hilarious if this comes off.
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 14:18
| Pre-89 composer > post-89 foolishness (be it loud lefties or plastic corpo-weasels). |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 14:19
Awesome! 
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 14:26
Someone, anywhere please start a band called: Plastic Corpo Weasels  
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 14:36
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Excellent. John Cage all the way! ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 14:37
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Do you think that Mr. Cage would get pissed if I illegally downloaded this song of silence? ------------- 
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 14:43
I would be more than happy if I could download silence... Speaking of which, thanks to the title of the article I have Depeche Mode stuck in my head. |
rushfan4 wrote:Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 14:48
| I would've gone with "Silent Night". |
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: November 16 2010 at 17:53
| John Cage FTW, I hope this succeeds. |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: November 17 2010 at 15:39
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Wait, you can buy an MP3 of 4'33"? That's remarkably pointless, but forcing the radio to go silent for four minutes is absolutely brilliant. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Elderflower Man
Date Posted: November 17 2010 at 15:47
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Nice. This one's unlikely to win, though, as I expect people will be less willing to buy their four minutes of silence. ------------- All your hearts now seem so far from me, It hardly seems to matter now. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 17 2010 at 15:54
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Having to purchase silence? What a paradox. I'm pretty sure that's one of the horseman of the apocalypse.
------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 17 2010 at 16:45
And if you did download it, how would you know if it was the original or a ripoff K-Tel cover version? |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: November 17 2010 at 16:57
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: November 17 2010 at 22:47
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Silence is still too safe. I'd love if next year they choose something totally horrible. Cage all the way though... ------------- 
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: December 13 2010 at 09:32
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I've bought my copy. Nice video of the recording here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2010/dec/13/cage-against-the-machine" rel="nofollow - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2010/dec/13/cage-against-the-machine |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: December 13 2010 at 12:31
Did anybody read the guy's reaction to being booted off last year? He was shocked by the thought of sweet old grandmothers listening to that in their rooms. I don't know if he was playing for the media or what, but I hope that he doesn't actually think all music made should appeal to 75 year old women... ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: December 13 2010 at 13:18
| I'm pretty sure that some 75 years old women would enjoy Merzbow: maybe Pauline Oliveros would be interested. |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: December 13 2010 at 13:28
------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: December 15 2010 at 14:55
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4'33" isn't a work of silence...
------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 15 2010 at 18:04
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^ quite true. ------------- What? |