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[unbibium]

You know, if I had enough musical talent, lots of free time, and enough man-ovaries to waste all of it on something totally silly, know what I'd do?

I'd write as many sequels to Metallica's "Unforgiven" as I could. Metallica wrote "Unforgiven Too", and it sounded vaguely like the original "Unforgiven" but clearly wasn't, though they did a pretty clear callback at the end. So I'd write "Unforgiven 3" (Unforgiven Free?) that sounded vaguely like Unforgiven Too. Then "Unforgiven For..." with an ellipsis in the title because "for" is a preposition. I think by the time I hit 5, hopefully I'll be so far removed from the original that I won't have to think of another clever word-number-play lyric.

And I'd try to steer the progression such that "Unforgiven 18" would be the theme to Full House.

Then I'd release a crossover sequel called "Unforgiven vs Paranoid".

Comments

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I think 'Unforgiven 3' needs to be called that just so people will know what you're talking about, and 'Unforgiven For ...' should maybe be 'Un-Four-Given'. 'Unforgiven 5' could then be called 'Still Unforgiven'.

The ultimate would be to write a finite-state automata that would endlessly generate an endless cycle of 'Unforgiven's, each a variation on the last one. Ideally you could specify that a given 'Unforgiven' along the series would be the theme to Full House, or 320 World, or Puff, The Magic Dragon, or whatever, and it would try to interpolate between the two spots (which could lead to some really odd variations if you don't allow enough 'space' between). However, it might be best to save that for the 2.0 version. You could then call the Unforgiven-generator 'Unforgiven Infinity', although there are some objections to that given that the program or automata or whatever isn't itself a variation on Unforgiven.

It's not immediately obvious to me how many Unforgivens there are. I think there's only aleph-null, but there might be aleph-one or even more. It probably depends on what kind of variants you're willing to allow, and how you determine whether two variants are actually the same variant or not. (Are you bound to a certain set of instruments? If two variants differ in that one is 250 beats per minute and the other is 251 beats per minute, does anyone care?)

I should probably go to bed.

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Full House will be cursed until time ends for starting up the whole Olsen Twins nonsense