Het beste van The Uncut Book of Revelations (1)

Enkele van de meest pretentieuze lp sleevenotes:

1. “In the end, the plague touched us all. It was not confined to the Oran of Camus… And through the fog of the plague, most art withered into journalism. Painters left the easel to scrawl their innocence on walls of manifestos. Symphonies died on crowded roads. Novels served as furnished rooms for ideology…”
- Pete Hamill voor ‘Blood On The Tracks’ van Bob Dylan (1975)

2. “Narcissus in Metamorphosis, tearing at his well-known image, behind which he hides his unknown face. Grey rains and trains cascading crying strings…”
- Keith Altham voor ‘Scott 3′ van Scott Walker (1969)

3. “The Supreme and I are one – all we outlast…”
- Sri Chinmoy voor ‘Birds Of Fire’ van Mahavishnu Orchestra (1972)

4. “Visions of Pentangular faithful squatting, swollen-eyed and morning-mouthed, outside garish Wilson Picketted shop windows…”
- John Peel voor ‘The Pentangle’ van The Pentangle (1969).

5. “The Art Of Noise suddenly realised… that waking in the middle of a dream, even the worst, one feels dissappointed [sic], even cheated of the best in life. But pleasant, fulfilled dreams are actually as rare, to use Shubert’s words, as happy music. Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish it’s [sic] difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is merely illusion. This is precisely why the loveliest dreams are as if blighted. Such an impression is captured superlatively in the description of the nature’s theatre of Oklahoma in Kafka’s America.”
- Paul Morley voor ‘Who’s Afraid Of The Art Of Noise’ van The Art Of Noise (1984)

(schaamteloos gepikt van The Uncut Book of Revelations Volume One, Allan Jones, 2007, IPC Media.)

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