Doing my Singapore taxes this evening. (Somehow Singapore manages to have a straightwford income return that is simpler than a 1040EZ and covers you whether you make $15,000, $1,500,000, or $15,000,000. Conversely, I don’t even attempt to do my US taxes). Turned on iTunes and it randomly dialed in, unbelievably, “The Revealing Science of God” from the lamentable “Tales From Topographic Oceans.” [The album ... was arguably a key to the genre's swift decline in popularity]
It reminded me, for some reason vividly, of Jan’s enormous brown bags of cassettes that I used to duplicate by, cleverly, sitting two cassette recorders near each other, one playing, the other, well, recording.
All his tapes were oddly or at least sparsely labelled. One I remembered in particular was the cassette labelled, “The Revolting Silence of God.” I recall it as being a black cassette with the original labell dried and fallen off, and replaced with a rectangular label with rounded edges, written in red pen, in Jan’s distinctive all-caps font, “The Revolting Silence of God.”
I was 13yo then, had no clue, and didn’t like that music, so I was always confused by that tape and generally ignored it. (As did most people, I gather)
When that memory popped up during the song I thought, “I wonder if that was a common term for that turd-Album?” I would have never known in 1985, but now twenty-plus years later, I can ask The All-Knowing. He says, “nope.”
Thus I figured I better add my little contribution to the world and make sure Google is now aware of this notion.
Anyway, there’s one random memory of Corsica circa-1985.
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lol,
yep
I have it on cd now.
It’s still a great album.
The revolting silence of god was a satirical nickname that Bill and I had for the album.
Btw.
Happy Birthday to you and your sister.
What’s it like to be an old married with children man?
lol.
Jan
i remember being twelve and rolling around with mike in the bullet. he started growling, “hush little baby don’t say a word-and never mind that noise you heard. it’s just a beast under your bed-in your closet, in your head!” and i was like, “holy shit, did you make that up yourself!?” turns out it was james hetfield of metallica and my introduction to the black album, which i clearly remember the cassette of…along with the n.w.a: straight out of compton cassette, which had ez-e on the otherside. ha ha ha!