Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Vox" channel.

  1. 8:10 Wondering when you were going to mention Blue Monday ! Note it wasn’t a disco piece by any stretch, though it obviously would have had trouble existing if the 12” format wasn’t already popular. Also note that FM radio took full advantage of 12” singles as well, since they sounded so good, and hi-fi stereo radio could really show that off.
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  2. The other thing about Art Nouveau is that it came around the same time as the development of full-colour photolithographic printing. Art is always driven by technology, isn’t it?
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  3. I just wonder where ghosts get their clothes from. Is there an afterlife for clothes, as well?
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  4. 4:03 Clever idea: why couldn’t they have run the record slower? Instead of 45rpm, how about, I don’t know, just picking a figure off the top of my head here, 33⅓rpm?
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  5. By the way, “nouveau” is not pronounced “new-voh”, but more like “noo-voh”.
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  6. 3:56 It would have helped that that stuff was old enough to be out of copyright.
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  7. If time travel worked that way, there would be absolutely no need for violence at all. Just stop his parents meeting and conceiving him. And nobody need ever know. Every similarly pivotal moment in history, no matter how momentous and far-reaching, could be deflected in a different direction by some similarly small leverage applied at just the right time and place. I don’t know why people always think in terms of violent solutions, even if the problem is one of violence; too much Hollywood, perhaps?
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  8. No, it wasn’t disco that did it (though disco did benefit from it), it was FM radio that popularized the 12” single. For example, New Order’s Blue Monday could not be described as a “disco” piece, yet the 12” version was all over the airwaves around the mid-1980s, when FM really hit NZ in a big way.
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  9. “Uncanny Valley” is not a concept peculiar to the Computer Age ...
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