smoe.org mailing lists
ivan@stellysee.de
| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: What a Concept |
| Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:16:40 -0500 |
[Part 1 text/plain us-ascii (1.4 kilobytes)]
(View Text in a separate window)
At 07:03 AM 11/26/2003 -0800, kcronin wrote:
>--- josh chasin <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>> OK, you really want to talk coming out of the
>> closet? Forget prog-- what
>> are your top-15 "concept albums" or "Rock Operas"?
>>
>> Also, in that last sentence, does the question mark
>> go inside or outside the quotation marks?
>>
>Tubular Bells. and inside.
No, Josh is right. Unless there's an exception in one of the style guides
that I'm not familiar with (I was strictly MLA and Chicago in school
myself), all punctuation except for commas and periods falls outside the
quotation marks. Seems arbitrary to make the exception for commas and
periods, but usage rules in the English language are nothing if not
arbitrary. Personally, I wouldn't have used quotation marks in that
sentence anyway, but that's just me.
Anyway. THE WHO SELL OUT for sure, and S.F. SORROW, and TAKING TIGER
MOUNTAIN BY STRATEGY (it's based on a set of postcards of a Chinese
revolutionary opera, which sounds conceptual enough to me), and WE'RE ONLY
IN IT FOR THE MONEY and PET SOUNDS and Nirvana's THE STORY OF SIMON
SIMOPATH and Van Dyke Parks' DISCOVER AMERICA. Also, the B-52s' COSMIC
THING. TOMMY never did much for me, and I think QUADROPHENIA is padded.
And the "concept" of SGT. PEPPER peters out after the second song, so it
doesn't really count.
S
For assistance, please contact
the smoe.org administrators.