A flower is beautiful as it is. It’s not so beautiful when you dissect all its parts and examine them under a microscope. Music is soul, not analytics. This video does nothing to expand the beauty of the original work. In fact, it’s just down right boring. Sorry!

Anyone who’s read a decent number of the books in that series knows they can be pretty hit or miss, but this was the first one I didn’t even want to finish, and it’s about one of my favorite albums, one I like much better than the subjects of other 33 1/3 books that I’ve enjoyed much more.

Early on in the book he presents the most sustained exercise in pedantry I’ve ever read over people who describe the album as ‘beatless,’ dredging up and citing every last example he could find and spinning his wheels on a pointless refutation. I wanted to throw the book across the room.

Maybe it gets better and more insightful after that and maybe I’ll finish it someday, but I certainly won’t be reading that irritating, interminable chapter again! And I don’t think I’ll watch this video, either.

Connoisseurs do not have fine wine and cheap cider in the same cabinet!!!!

Richard D. James is a good example of a non-conformist, musically speaking. I hate to rhyme, but his sound has no bounds. Hell, I can’t even say “his sound” because it’s not like the man has a sonic signature of any kind. I’ve just always loved that he experiments with machines of all sorts and turns them into very unique instruments. Plus, he has a love for modular synthesizers, which is never a bad thing.