To get so fucking bored by the "my husband left me today" threads in relationship forum

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I'd rather read the daily mail.

PMSL

Fluffybunny - you are a Bad Woman. Do you have no children to minister to at this hour of the night? hmm]

Bad? Me? Never.

just a faint slam of a door, I thought, FAQ

Faint sound of hooves trip-trapping into the distance.....

Who was it that wrote a song of nothing? Just recorded a record with absoloutely nothing on it?

No, seriously, someone really did record a song of nothing.

I'm touched.

Am I at the bridge yet please???????!!

fluffy, it was John Cage, called 4.33 - four mins and 33 seconds of, er, silence. described as "beautiful" in reviews, iirc

No, I know Simon and Garfunkel did something similar. My parents had some terrible records, a blank one was one of them. Completely pointless, I just can't remember who recorded it.

You're at the bridge solo. Hold on, I'll try and find it on You tube.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJagb7hL0E

LOL! Is that 'Bridge over troubled water's' by any chance???!!!!!

that's the one fluffy

Oh fabulous.

We're seeing off the troll with music-geekiness now!

gigglewitch - i took my ds to a music performance and there was a piece with lots of metronomes. Just lots of metronomes. It was quite cool.

Any idea who that was by?

ROFL!! They all look sooooooo bored!! They had something called the 'night train' which was also shite.

Loads of people have recorded absolutely nothing as a track. The last one i know being The Verve. I can't remember what the album was called but their last track was nothing for 5 mins with a baby crying right at the end.

sounds fab, cherry
heard about a thing by owen-somebody last year - err dh is a bigger geek than me he'd prob know. shall have to ask him

yes but Cage's piece was "composed" in 1952.....so I would hazard a good guess he was the first to do it - and everyone else just copied.

this reminds me of a really shite US movie (sorry)

Also, the thing about the Cage piece is that it's to be performed. Which makes a whole load of interesting differences.

Now, a band simply recording a silence is of a different order to a band performing a silence. And asking their audience to sit still for that amount of time and actually listen to it.

It's quite Buddhist-ic if you think about it.

I'm always amazed in yoga at the number of people who simply cannot remain still for the rest postures.