NP (or not much P) title retreads

[Peter E. Zelz]

I am, having been prompted by Syd Barret's death, finally reading Nicholas
Schaffner's "Saucerful of Secrets".  Surprised to learn not once but twice
was a Floyd album issued bearing a name which had been used to title an
earlier work by another group.  A band called Medicine Head released an
album called "Dark Side of the Moon" (containing, coincidentally, a track
titled "Back to the Wall") prior to the release of the Floyd album of the
same name.  Also, Badfinger released an album called "Wish You Were Here",
also before Floyd's work.  As far as I can tell, neither of the Floyd
albums was in any way a tribute or a reference to its predecessor and in
both cases Floyd seem to have realized that they were recycling an album
title.

Cheers,
z



> [Original Message]
> From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
> To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: 7/24/2006 11:49:43
> Subject: ATD:  the title
>
> Maybe Penguin is using the P-list as a focus group to
> help determine the final title of the novel?
>
> If so, it probably helps a lot, for folks who don't
> like the title, to keep saying over and over and over
> and over again that they don't like it, because then
> Penguin will be certain to pay attention to that
> person and find another title. 
>
> It would be surprising if Pynchon didn't know of the
> earlier novel  Against the Day, it only took about 10
> seconds to find it on the internet.  If this does turn
> out to be the new novel's title, as Slate reported,
> won't readers have to assume Pynchon chose the title
> knowing of the other book and assume that he's
> referring or alluding to it?  
>
>
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