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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:18:35 +0000
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- Subject: Re: Gabriel and MTV -- Len's question belatedly replied
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- Len says:
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- >I've seen Digging (it must get alot of "screen"-play because i see it in
- >passing quite a bit) and of course Sledgehammer, i'm not a video
- >kinda guy, but the word masterpiece doesn't fit those two videos. The video
- >I liked (I'm sure i'm alone here) is Thriller, i think it was a fore-runner
- >to what's being done today, and would come closer to being a "masterpiece"
- >but like i said i'm not into videos so i'm really "clue-less" on the subject.
- >I guess it also depends on what you consider a masterpiece, i can't think of
- >but a handful of masterpieces of modern music and no videos .......L.W.
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- I won't argue about this. I forgot to mention the reason why I think
- "Sledgehammer" is a milestone: for the technique used in the making of it.
- It was all volume of single frames put together, and some effects were really
- amazing and yet extremely simple in principle. This doesn't affect my sad be-
- lief that the video in question was the most openly commercial move that Ga-
- briel ever made, along with the song of course. He got a Grammy for that,
- and I think the idea just deserved it.
- "Thriller" was enormous too, that's true. I hated the song, though.
-
- >New Thread (maybe): Name what you beleive is a modern masterpiece of music
- > entire album or just a tune........?
-
- Like picking a white needle in a million of silver needles... :)
- If you mean "which song/album would you save if you had to destroy all the
- others?"... the song would probably be Hammill's "A Way Out", and the al-
- bum... undecidable. Probably I'd rather kill myself than live without music,
- but this is not the sense of the question, I realise.
- Also, my choice for the song is due to strictly personal and emotio-
- nal reasons -- thus it is obviously void of any real meaning.
-
- Ciao, Marco
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- Like a shot, like a paparazzo picture gone to pot...
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- Marco Olivotto, C.I.S.C.A. - Univ. degli Studi di Trento, POVO (TN) - ITALY
- olivotto@itnvax.cineca.it OLIVOTTO@ITNCISCA
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