Re: [ARSCLIST] "All hail the analogue revolution..."

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

steven c wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > oh, that's TACKY!
> >
> > another primo present-day noise-pollution driver is downloadable cellphone
> ringtones. Lousy
> > recreations of annoying sounds. Now, that said, I do chuckle when I hear
> an old WECO ring sound
> > coming out of a cellphone. They even have all the different payphone
> sounds scattered around the
> > web.
> >
> Well, I have my computer set up so it "meows" at me instead of using
> all the sounds Mr. Gates meant for me to use...now all I need to do
> is to record and digitize Ecru (the ecru cat)!
>
> Don't own a cell phone, but if I did I might consider using, say,
> "All Alone (By the Telephone)"...or the parody version of "Honeycomb"
> that was titled "Telephone" (started out "I got a vife and it's kinda
> funny...")...
>
> Steven C. Barr

Stan Boreson and Doug Setterberg. I can still sing the flip side "Swanson,
Swenson, Jensen" in its entirety. Funny, nobody's asked me since 1959.

Tangent....the most revolting sound I can think of is one that just caused me to
rebel and cancel an entire project rather than listen to some of the worst
records ever made, including Freddy Martin's hideous mangling of the Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto. I ain't getting paid enough to suffer through that thing one
more time.

dl