redantsunderneath:

kontextmaschine:

Can you imagine being the first guy listening to In The Air Tonight and not knowing those drums were coming?

The first guy listening to it knew the drums were coming.  From wikipedia:

“Ahmet came down to the final mix in the cutting room in New York (…) The drums don’t come in until the end but Ahmet didn’t know that at this point, because on the demo the drums hadn’t come in at all; it was only drum machine all the way. And he was saying, ‘Where’s the down beat, where’s the backbeat?’ I said, ‘The drums come in in a minute.’”

Incidentally, about this post and responses, my favorite performance art is stuff I don’t really get.