Ruined by Context: Guidos and Helmet Hair Spoil the Fun!

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So anyhow, I recently got the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, right....and I'm listening to it, and really starting to get into it. Then all the sudden, in the back of my temporal lobe, comes a vivid image flashed onto my conciousness:

[ Greasy Guido with a hideous mustache and even more hideous chest hair (which the hubcap-sized brass medallion fails to cover) boogying in too-tight polyester bellbottoms. He is trying and failing to impress soem flat-chested mannequin with stiff Samurai Helmet hair. ]

All the sudden, I remembered the absurd context that Saturday Night Fever arose from and couldn't enjoy the record as much as I did just a few moments before.
So anyhow: Has there ever been a moment when you suddenly couldn't enjoy an album to its fullest becuase the albums CONTEXT suddenly imposed itself upon you?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, yesterday I was listening to some philologically correct reconstruction of ancient music from the golden age of the roman empire and suddenly an image popped up in my mind: hordes of dirty uncivilized blonde barbarians from foreign country up in the north invading our territories in search of less severe climatic conditions.

Guido

: ) No, I think that I had a problem with all that disco aesthetics, but now I see it as a re-interpretation of burgeois richness mythogy which is, by the way nicer than the original thing:
Give me tons of Missy Elliotts' ouvert materialism but keep away from me narrow-minded middle class puritanism and belles manieres

― francesco, Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Usually, the more I know about a musician, the less I like their work.

Fer instance - Nico records - I have trouble with the idea that they were actually recorded in a studio (much less recorded at all.) I picture Nico in a room lighted by a single lightbulb, playing a harmonium into a cheap tape recorder.

And when I found out that Greg Ginn & Lee Ranaldo were grateful dead fans, I died a little inside.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

But at least they (Ginn|Renaldo) don't SOUND like the Dead.

and of that we are eternally greatful. amen.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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