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I'm just not able to discover the structure or whatever else it is that's supposed to guide me through and thus it all sounds like she's completely randomly improvising and plucking at strings all the time.i haven't 'discovered' the structure of the songs on ys either (apart from 'cosmia' which is relatively straightforward), though i've no doubt there are structures; i kind of enjoy it as an improvised listening experience.
are you people retarded? you just might be.
― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Structure really matters that much to you?
well just think of each song as having several choruses that she comes back to rather than verse/chorus/verse/chorus/blah/blah/blah.
thats not a hard and fast rule, though. "Sawdust and Diamonds" is more like a series of long and crescendo'd verses. "Only Skin" is ambulatory but works in several cycles with random phrasing in between.
Its better to think of the structure of the songs like poems than linear prose: lots of self-referencing, weaving of meaning, rhymes and slant rhymes. Go read some Whitman or Yevtushenko and then come back to it.
― Cap'n Guthrie (retardo1), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Y'know what's fun? Emptying a helium balloon into my cat's mouth and kicking her in the gut till she squeals like a child's slide whistle. One time I swear she cried out "OH-OH OH-OH-OH DESIRE!" but she was probably just caterwauling in feline agony.
I wouldn't call my cat an acquired taste.
― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Monday, 4 December 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link