A Few Words on the Name of this Blog

In what should be not be perceived in anyway to represent a tacit condoning of the French life-style, the name is intended to be a poorly structured double entendre: amusing to the auteur and obnoxious for any one else with very little sense in between.

Example: see below sentence.

First, a concept as freely exercised by sorority girls as Gen-Y'ers, and entirely independent of the former: novelty. In this case the radiant source of outward feelings of inner warmth is the environmentally unfriendly, but nothingness intimately personal medium of pressing music onto vinyl records. Spinning vinyl: a way in which listening to music becomes an active form of leisure as opposed to the passive reception of information. With a vinyl disc, it is my opinion and my opinion only, that it becomes difficult to perform other tasks; the imperfections in the grooves and distracting nature of the two-dimensional monochrome hamster wheel demand full attention. Music is no longer the silence killer in the background of your Internet device. 

Most importantly, to listen to vinyl the record must be placed onto its player through a hole at the center. When the first portion has concluded, the disc is flipped and the journey continues. Same hole, different side. A-side or B-side, holes are the same; likewise for cassettes. CDs not so much, but what they lack in hole technology they more than compensate for in Frisbee abilities. 

Second is an unfortunate return to the running theme of circles with depth. With vinyl predominating the home music entertainment realm for the better part of 60-70 years during the 20^th century - with a brief cessation in the early to mid 1940s - A-Side and B-Side have become interchangeable parts for first and second halves of albums. In conjunction with this, and the impracticality of track seeking of track seeking within the medium, a result was that more often than not on more popular tracks were placed earlier in the record while those of increased musical adventure were found later. Conversely, these worse tracks would be “deeper” into the recording. B-sides.

Albeit it that, common sense should be banished to the wayside.


Why not promote B-sides up from the under-card to the main event? So long as their purpose is bluntly stated, and not fashioned into some opaque euphemism for branding purposes, no problem should arise. Music writing is a literary B-side: derivative products resulting from fanatic fixation. Music writing, if honesty is to be exploited, is an embarrassingly nerdy “in-roads” to an industry which one was unable to be an active participant in and traditional contributor to. A chance insertion into a formidable movement. Reverse Gonzo. Just read the Mingus liner notes for Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. But alas, the reciprocation of importance from A-side to B-Side only goes towards creating a new, or old, idea of riding tailcoats to fame...like an A-hole....a B-side A-Hole at that.