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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Similarly, many people don't realise Ride of the Valkyries is but a very short extract from the 15 hour Ring Cycle and not a Wagner 'single' used in the soundtrack for Apocalypse Now (where the context is that of psychological warfare against the Viet Cong)
 
This reminds me of this scene from The Simpsons:
 
 
 
 
No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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It's funny that Blacksword mentioned "Tom Sawyer", because whenever I hear the term "overplayed", I almost immediately start thinking of Rush's Moving Pictures album.

Moving Pictures was my first Rush album. I bought it when it was spanking brand new (summer of '81) on the recommendation of a cousin and hearing a few songs on the radio. I listened to it CONSTANTLY over the next few years, to the point where I eventually grew fed up and got rid of it. The band's other albums appealed to me much more, and had much longer staying power.

It was only about 15 years later I bought another copy, and listened again. To this day, I enjoy the album (except for "Witch Hunt"), but only listen to it very occasionally. I don't know how much overplaying affected my experience, but unlike the prevailing view, I today see it as an "average" album by the band, not one of their greats.  
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