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  • But he’s a teenager, his voice didn’t even fully break yet.

    The macho stuff is wild, but lots of the lyrics are just free form (and not very good) associations, I have to assume he was high and not just a little.

    And now I wonder if they had any age restrictions for smoking weed at all.

    But then again, “Pass the Dutchie” is essentially about the same, some members were even younger, and they were British, not Jamaican.

    Wait, was this guy also British? Somehow I don’t think so.








  • So he was definitely in academia very literally

    Sure, but my statement was about how I find this music, meaning I don’t listen to it because of highbrow academia. It gives me joy like a piece of noisy Jazz can (granted, many Jazz listeners are also pretty highbrow about it), or even some hardcore punk. The fact that he managed to convey this through sheets rather than recordings is remarkable though. And of course my full respects to the pianist here.

    The Études draw from a diverse range of sources, including gamelan, African polyrhythms, Béla Bartók, Conlon Nancarrow, Thelonious Monk, and Bill Evans. (…) this rhythmic complexity

    Yeah, this.

    Steve Reich is pretty good too.

    Conlon Nancarrow I never heard of, maybe I should check them out.