What was the 18th century answer to Yahoo News?
Beethoven was ‘the Bono of his day’ according to ‘classical music experts’, reports Yahoo news. But the Yahoo hack isn’t satisfied with the inanity of this comparison, and so rephrases thus: “Was Beethoven the 18th century answer to Bono?”
C20: oi, C18 - we’ve got Bono. What have you got?
C18: ho! Bono, thou sayst? Though we know naught of thy ragamuffin chaunter, let him be never so honey-tongued, nor so adept in the divine art of praising the works of heaven, by means of sweet and melodious wheedles, as to cause an honest arbiter to accord him the rival, in the production of beguiling hymns, odes and tunes of every sort, which in every way transport the mortal soul of those priviledged to listen, of our Beethoven! who, tho pompous and deaf as a post, and possessed of some unorthodox ideas concerning the proper government of society, is surely the foremost composer of illustrious and well-made musicks, of this, or any other, age!
C20: a movie dog? Are you serious?! Bono is way cooler!
This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 at 9:23 AM and filed under New stuff. Trackbacks are closed.
Like, Yeah, Man.
Similarly I read a few months ago that U2’s most famous hits are mathematically similar to Beethoven. I think Bono is writing all these articles himself.
Posted on 21-Nov-06 at 3:34 pm | PermalinkMathematically similar, perhaps, in the way that a bus shelter might be mathematically similar to the Parthenon.
Posted on 21-Nov-06 at 4:22 pm | Permalink