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hakey · Post by **hakey** » Sun May 30, 2010 10:44 pm

This

is famously heard all over an album released in 1979 that was named after one of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic concepts - except it, the actual thing illustrated in the picture, isn't the thing heard in the album. What am I talking about?

Hint: This is definitely a KVR question

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Sun May 30, 2010 11:24 pm

Penis Envy by Crass?

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Mon May 31, 2010 8:29 am

robojam wrote:Penis Envy by Crass?

Interesting that your first reaction to that picture is to think of a penis, tell me me, when did you start having these 'thoughts'? [/Dr Freud]

Sorry, good guess, but that's nothing to do with the answer.

As a child I found the artist in question mildly disturbing/scary.

The album, and that which is heard all over it, should, I think, be familiar to a good number of KVR members.

D.H. Miltz · Post by **D.H. Miltz** » Mon May 31, 2010 9:10 am

The album is The Pleasure Principle by Gary Numan. The illustration is of (or of part of) a Vox Humana; the Polymoog preset of that name is what is all over the album.

If this is correct, I hand my question asking privilege to the first one to claim it, because I've got nothing, nor with a head full of allergy medicine am I likely to have anything reasonably soon.

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Mon May 31, 2010 9:40 am

D.H. Miltz wrote:The album is The Pleasure Principle by Gary Numan. The illustration is of (or of part of) a Vox Humana; the Polymoog preset of that name is what is all over the album.

Correct in all details. The term Vox Humana originally referred to 'a short-resonator reed stop on the pipe organ, so named because of its supposed resemblance to the human voice'. Some interesting(ish) trivia I came across whilst researching that question: reed stops aren't usually found on Italian church organs, because the Catholic Church banned them as the devil's work.

If this is correct, I hand my question asking privilege to the first one to claim it, because I've got nothing, nor with a head full of allergy medicine am I likely to have anything reasonably soon.

You sure? Going by some of the questions in here, a head full of drugs might be a positive advantage.

D.H. Miltz · Post by **D.H. Miltz** » Mon May 31, 2010 9:50 am

Thanks, but I'm sure. I'm off to bed.

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Mon May 31, 2010 11:31 am

Okay, two very different musicians with almost the same surname (in a very similar way to a pair of names from a previous question).

One musician, now deceased, was described as his nation's most important creative figure of the last century.

The other musician, half from the same continent as the first and, last time I checked, very much alive, is described as one of the most important figures in his admittedly small, or perhaps 'simple', genre.

They are both 'urban lupines'.

(Note: if you're not prepared to set your own question, don't bother answering this one!

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Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Mon May 31, 2010 4:35 pm

hakey wrote:One musician, now deceased, was described as his nation's most important creative figure of the last century.

Are you sure about that bit?

[Edit] I mean our last century, or the person making the statement's?

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Mon May 31, 2010 4:43 pm

Anyway, I'm fairly certain the answer is:

John Taverner and John Tavener

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Mon May 31, 2010 5:21 pm

Blank_Frank wrote:
hakey wrote:One musician, now deceased, was described as his nation's most important creative figure of the last century.
Are you sure about that bit?

[Edit] I mean our last century, or the person making the statement's?

'his nation' refers to the musician's nation, not the person making the statement, and 'last century' means the C20th.

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Mon May 31, 2010 5:25 pm

Blank_Frank wrote:Anyway, I'm fairly certain the answer is:

John Taverner and John Tavener

Sorry, that's not the answer - and I'm certain of that.

Would your answer fit with the 'urban lupines' part of the clue, or the 'small, or perhaps simple, genre' bit?

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon May 31, 2010 5:28 pm

urban lupines?
wolfgang?

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Mon May 31, 2010 5:32 pm

I would hazard a guess that a lot of folk here will have heard of the second musician, but few will have heard of the first - a minor travesty, IMO. This is another question where high art meets, if not low, low to middling - though the fans of the second will no doubt have something to say about that.

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Mon May 31, 2010 5:33 pm

hakey wrote:Sorry, that's not the answer - and I'm certain of that.

Would your answer fit with the 'urban lupines' part of the clue, or the 'small, or perhaps simple, genre' bit?

Hell of a coincidence though - fits the answer on nearly every other level!

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Mon May 31, 2010 5:33 pm

vurt wrote:urban lupines?
wolfgang?

You're thinking along the right lies - 'urban lupines' is a translation.

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