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Xszit t1_iuip138 wrote

If Toto's classic "Africa" plays on a loop in the desert but nobody is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?

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Quelchie t1_iuit778 wrote

Imagine being lost in the desert and this is what you stumble across

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Zebleblic t1_iuivga9 wrote

Just imagine you're lost in the desert. You find a sign of life. You can hear music. You get excited and rush up only to find an mp3 player and some speakers playing Africa on loop.

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5a_ t1_iuj2grr wrote

OK,why do that?

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SSSS_car_go t1_iuj5rm9 wrote

ob·nox·ious (/əbˈnäkSHəs/)

adjective

extremely unpleasant

Example: “setting up auto play for infinity"

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No_Requirement_1453 t1_iujane5 wrote

Replying to Quelchie (#392,759)

I met a traveller from an antique land,

Who said: “Six small and crackling speakers of plastic

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered ipod lies, whose scroll wheel,

And cracked screen, and battery of little charge,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal these words appear:

“Our name is Toto, band of bands:

Listen on our works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that pocket-sized wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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arkie87 t1_iujgkh6 wrote

it's for sure been buried by sand by now.

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SaintUlvemann t1_iujljqz wrote

Putting a song about blessed African rains on permanent loop in the middle of an African desert is some next-level shade-throwing.

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Arudj t1_iujwbxm wrote

Stumbling accross it must felt like some videogame easter egg putted by the dev for no reason. I imagine someone trying to figure out the why and how and moving the speakers or something to clear the riddle as if some chest or door will magically appear.

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raz0rflea t1_iujz7mm wrote

I remember walking down an empty street once at 3am and hearing Guru Josh's Infinity playing from somewhere in a huge construction site...that was the most surreal experience, but I feel like hearing Africa on loop in the middle of an African desert would be like that times 1000!

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santtu_ t1_iuk5c2c wrote

Is Toto getting paid royalties if no one is there to listen?

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cribsaw t1_iuk5q29 wrote

So you can litter and call it art? Reminds me of the artist who literally starved a chained dog for his “art.”

I bet he just packed up his iPod and speakers after taking all the press photos and videos. “The idea is the art, man.”

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JagerBaBomb t1_iuka2bk wrote

Replying to guynamedjames (#406,809)

I sort of expected some kind of weather-proofing... nope, it's an iPod with some shitty solar pads and a couple pairs of $20 computer speakers all on Ikea-quality-looking pedestals.

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