Let’s Get Ready …
… to Puzzle!
I’m thinking of trademarking this phrase. Since boxing announcer Michael Buffer moved to protect his own ‘Rumble’ version (in 1992), he has made over $400 million from its use elsewhere. Just a fraction of that will do me!
Actually, this makes a good intro for ‘Track 5’, since the chapter starts off with a story of an immensely rich yet largely unknown individual, before moving on to a musical debate themed around ‘C69’s obscurest musical maverick yet (don’t despair though, I do get back to being a bit more musically populist again later in the book). All of which is, of course, simply the hors d'oeuvre, leading up to …
… the bit I know many of you tune in for, the latest ‘Challenge’!
As one reader observed the hardest bit about these ‘challenges’ is not necessarily solving them but working out (from the limited guidance) just what it is you are supposed to solve in the first place! I’ve agonised a bit over whether this is making the ‘C69’ too hard, but I think for the integrity of the story (with a supposed online competition involving thousands) keeping the quests simpler would lack credibility.
That ‘complexity’ certainly rears its head again this month, and I suspect this episode’s ‘challenge’ qualifies as the hardest so far, sorry. Just think though, how satisfying that will make it if you can crack it.
Given there is lots of talk this month about 7” Singles I thought it would be fitting to send this ‘warning’ out 45 hours in advance, so please look out for ‘Track 5’ to land in your inboxes at 10am on Tuesday 25th.
To make up, in advance, for the undoubted obscurity of some of the music referenced in ‘T5’ I’ll leave you with a very populist, but very good, ‘Sunday’ playlist:
(Albeit topped off with 28 seconds of ‘Pink Flag’ era noise from Wire).