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For friends who have sat through the same meetings
Talking Nonsense
A commentary on business people talking jargon.
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For friends who have sat through the same meetings
The story
Written as a wry commentary on the way business people talk to each other — the phrases everyone uses and nobody examines.
What we were aiming for
The deadpan, motorik electronic sound of late-seventies Düsseldorf: machine-steady rhythm, a straight-faced vocal, and lyrics that take corporate language absolutely literally.
From the lyrics
Everybody's talking, nobody says a thing,Everybody's shouting, just to hear the echo ring
Where it came from
“I had this childhood ditty in my head, and eventually wanted it brought to life.”
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