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βPictoris !NLqByHLcRc Sat Oct 20 20:16:12 2012 No.3075010 [DELETED]

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"Thomas Pynchon is one of the great unheard lyricists. His award-winning novel, Gravity's Rainbow, is stuffed full of song lyrics. Depending on how you count, there are around 100 in the book. Over the course of a year, the Thomas Pynchon Fake Book managed to set twenty-eight of them to music. A limited run CD the group put out also featured two bonus instrumentals inspired by the work, "The White Visitation" and "The Lonely Rocketman."
The project doubled as an experiment in online music collaboration. Thirty seven people across four states contributed tracks. In June of 2009 the group held a CD release party in Portland, OR.
The entirety of the work can be downloaded at MediaFire."

http://thomaspynchonfakebook.org/
http://www.mediafire.com/?qqus4nnnp2vbvvq

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 20:19:11 2012 No.3075020 Oh man what That sounds amazing. Downloading.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 20:41:41 2012 No.3075065 >>3075010 One of my biggest annoyances with Pynchon has always been that I'm not creative enough to figure out how his lyrics are supposed to sound when sung. I usually just skim over them. And damn, these are pretty good. I'm impressed.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 21:03:51 2012 No.3075102 I've been waiting for someone to finally do this I was dreaming of doing it myself. Always loved the song at the end of Part 1 of GR.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 21:06:19 2012 No.3075115 This shit is fucking great.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 21:16:19 2012 No.3075144 >tfw doesn't match up with the music I made up for all the songs in my head I always imagined most of his songs sounding more like cheezy broadway numbers

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 21:29:43 2012 No.3075177 >>3075144 Me too. That or Gilbert and Sullivan type bullshit. Seemed like it made the most sense.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 21:35:44 2012 No.3075185 >>3075144 >>3075177 Likewise

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 21:40:14 2012 No.3075193 I'm going to get drunk while listening to Tantivy Muckracker on repeat. It just feels right.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 21:41:14 2012 No.3075195 >>3075177 Me too. Blaring horns and all sorts of cheezy gaudy sounds. It really wasn't my thing, but I'll give this a shot. Still working through GR. p.517 ftw

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 21:42:14 2012 No.3075197 >The Englishman is Very Shy They'd better be glad that I can enjoy things ironically.

>>	βPictoris !NLqByHLcRc Sat Oct 20 21:45:22 2012 No.3075201 >>3075197 The rap ones feel odd, but that one outright sucked. World War Three should have been done differently, as well.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 22:50:38 2012 No.3075356 Are they supposed to be in really shitty quality? On VLC they sound terrible

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 23:08:45 2012 No.3075390 File: 49 KB, 600x512, 1335262855321.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 23:30:50 2012 No.3075420 Get on my level: https://neos-music.com/?language=english&page=output.php%3Ftemplate%3Denglish-album-details.php% 26content%3DAlben/11036.php

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