[Introspective] Re: naming bands and a Trivia Question

[The Virtual One]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Zdenek Stanka wrote:

> > Erm...have you heard of such a thing as the flow of the lyrics and music?
> > The line couldn't go "Songs like Tainted Love and Strange Love"
> > because that
> > would not sound good.
>
>
> Erm ... have *you* ever thought of such things as "general inapplicability".
> What the heck do you try to say??? You suppose Neil writes a line, wants to
> mention a particular song but then ooops! ? because of "the flow of the
> lyrics and music" he has to rename the song. Let's call it an "author's
> licence"...

But actually - you got to think about the flow - if he would have meant
'Strange Love' - then it could much more easily have been sung "Songs like Strange
Love and Tainted Love", there's a flow in opposite to singing it the other way
'round.

/Mats

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