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Originally Posted by SATCHMO
There is absurdism, or dadaism, which can very often be both musical, artistic, and more impotantly authentic (aka The Residents, eh sometimes.), and then there's just pretense. This album isn't absurdism or dadaism, it "sounds like" absurdism & dadaism, like someone trying, very hard, to sound absurd. It's that "trying" that is the pretense that comes across to me so heavily on this record. It's very fake.
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It seems like any random guy can make a bunch of random noise and get called a Dadaist genius.
I think Zappa and Residents are good examples of people who did that kinda thing the
right way, for one thing you understood what it was they were trying to say or do.
I'm not really a Dada fan but I don't think just making a bunch of random noise coupled with stupid jibberish lyrics and calling it Dada is what Duchamp had in mind.
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