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I love the Point, I haven't seen the movie but the record is awesome. I hope Onstad is playing it to the small one.

It is kind of trippy though, especially "Think About Your Troubles."

"Sit beside the breakfast table, think about your troubles.
Pour yourself a cup of tea, and think about the bubbles.
You can take your teardrops and drop 'em in a teacup
Take them down to the riverside and throw them over the side

To be swept up by a current, then taken to the ocean
To be eaten by some giraffees, who were eaten by some giraffees
And swallowed by a whale who grew so old
He decompooo-osed, doo, doo, doo

He died and left his body to the bottom of the ocean
Now everybody knows that when a body decomposes
The basic elements are given back to the ocean
And the sea does what it oughta and soon there's salty water
(Not too good for drinking)

'Cause it tastes just like a teardrop so they run it through a filter
And it comes out from a faucet, and it pours into a teapot
Which is just about to bubble, now think about your troubles, now...

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I wonder what the Oblio Correction might be?

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Again, having never heard of the Point, this "Think About Your Troubles" is an terribly Beef-like offering.

[pmcd9]

I wonder what the Oblio Correction might be?

I took it to be a Mod Band that Onstad had invented.

[pmcd9]

Again, having never heard of the Point, this "Think About Your Troubles" is an terribly Beef-like offering.

The Point is very uplifting.  It's actually the opposite of Roast Beef.  Roast Beefs problems are within himself and often times his friend help him through the rough times.  In the point Oblio's problems all external and he uses his inner resources to overcome them.

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I took it to be a Mod Band that Onstad had invented.

Yeah I get that. I meant the concept that the band would be named after... I'm just being a geek.
It's prolly just something Onstad likes the sound of.

"Troubles" is very RB stylistically. Not the mood of the song, or the theme of the album - just the introspective, silly, tangential randomness of it