Re: Final Thoughts on _Rocket Man_

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From: boris@ocf.berkeley.edu (Boris Chen)
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Subject: Re: Final Thoughts on _Rocket Man_
Date: 1 Feb 1992 05:05:29 GMT
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In article <3yecFB1w164w@bsbbs.UUCP> nrc@bsbbs.UUCP (N. Richard Caldwell) writes:
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>boris@ocf.berkeley.edu (Boris Chen) wrote:
> 
>>And I think this is true of Rocket Man. Here we have a happy,
>>a "fun," tune, yet, if you listen closely to the lyrics,
>>they are quite somber, and make some poignant and profound
>>statements of the relationship between technology and man.
>>I think this serves to provide the listener with a marked
>>juxtaposition of thematic qualities, as well as providing
>>an interesting twist of irony. 
>
>I'm glad that you got that out of it.  I wish that I could say
> that I had, but for me it doesn't work.  No, it's not that I
> haven't listened closely enough.  I simply don't feel* the
> synergy between contrasting lyric and melody that worked so
> well for _Army Dreamers_.  Rather than playing against one
> another to create an ironic twist, in _Rocket Man_ they clash
> to produce a confused message.

You plebian pug hog! How dare you think you somehow can listen
closer than I. Or that you even have the right to have an opinion.
You don't feel the synergy because you have the sensitivity of
re-enforced concrete, finess of a steam shovel, and taste
worse than my spelling.

Too bad I haven't heard the song for almost a month. I left the record
on the floor and ran over it with my swivel chair. By accident, of
course.

I found a neat album that has 4 songs from that Kate Bush Live 
video. It was imported from Japan, and cost a bunch, but I love
the music. Live music has something magical about it.

I liked Hook. Go see it.

--boris