RELATED: I’m finally reading Retromania…
So do we know everything now? Reynolds makes excellent fun both of those who know lots of things superficially and of the specialists. The generalists can cram their bandwidth with MP3 files that were rare until moments ago, and load them onto their iPods in order to listen to each track for just a few seconds. The specialists, on the other hand, need to record music on the same equipment that their idols used, showing the same impulse that seems to lie behind the period-performance movement of classical music. An aside from Reynolds reveals how messed up the whole situation is. Ciccone Youth produced a range of covers on “The Whitey Album,” including “a cover of John Cage retitled ‘(silence)’ (a sped-up version of his ‘4’ 33”,’ i.e., a couple of minutes of silence).”
