Re: The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
by crntaylor on Thursday October 31, 2013 @08:08PM
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Today I listened to the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust for the first time. It was released in 1972. Is it really that bewildering to you that not everyone has seen everything that exists already?
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Re: The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
by ErsatzVerkehr on Thursday October 31, 2013 @08:11PM
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"You're one of today's lucky 10,000!" http://xkcd.com/1053/
Re: The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
by jamesbritt on Thursday October 31, 2013 @11:07PM
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Wow. So what did you think? (I heard the album a year or so after it came out. Curious how it sounds to someone today.)
Re: The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
by crntaylor on Friday November 01, 2013 @06:18AM
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I really enjoyed it. It's an odd experience, listening to an album that old and that well known for the first time, because almost inevitably you will have heard some of the songs before without realising where they were from. A couple of times I recognized intros or riffs but couldn't quite place them - probably from movies, advertisements, or just hearing them on the radio.
You also have to try and shed yourself of the intervening 40 years of musical and social development, to try and get a sense of why this album created such a buzz when it was released for the first time (context - I'm about 30 years old, so I wasn't even born until 10 years after this was released, and wasn't socially/musically aware until about 25 years after it came out.)