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¿Question #5342?
ssmooth: Has the deliberate insertion of a big block of silence on a musical recording been overdone as a gimmick? Who do you suppose did it first?

Woelf: It can occasionally work when used well, and sparingly, but most uses beyond the most notable few that have already been mentioned in previous answers are just gimmicks.
Ghidorah3x: 1) Yes & 2) Don't know and don't care
chockle: Beatles - Helter Skelter
senorcoo: The Beatles?
Songlian: Nah & probably some band... First time I remember it was Nevermind by Nirvana...
daveroswell: Best done by Alanis recently, dont really notice it much. First done by exhausted monk doing Gregorian chants
MamaRat: Not sure who did it first, but Alanis did it best: "Why are you so petrified of silence? Here, can you handle this?"
GrimJester: John Cage and many others I'm sure.
Phil Fleischmann: John Cage?
bryanspellman: yes, either Beatles or Pink Floyd
Abruk: What?!
cgund: John Cage, and I don't think it's a supposition.
bigbadsteve: nah, some bands should just have albums of nothing but big blocks of silence. barry manilow
Sceadeau: nirvana on smells like teen spirit
Kafka: Yes
kmcdougan: Yes. The Beatles
DHEK: No. Not everyone does it. I don't know who did it first, though.
blindspot: Have doorknobs been overdone as a gimmick for getting in doors? Thomas Edison
aleo09: nah. not sure
WalkerRedEye: im not amusical person so ive no idea
aramis: PDQ Bach.
vampywife: probably...i'm not sure who started it
Nekura: Yes. Beatles.
brainrob: Yes - John Cage
MisterCranky: No, it's always welcome. I suppose it was Gerhard von Shhh.
scriptorum: I try not to suppose, it's rude.
Kazin: It's been overdone.
POvidiusNaso: Probably Elvis. He was a pretty sophisticated dude.
Chemik: Yes it has and I blame the benedictine monks.
bekudno: If it's done well, I don't think it's a gimmick.
CraftyShafty: Very overdone. I embrace Kraftwerk as the pioneers of weird sounds and lack of sounds.
Famous Mortimer: Wilhelm Silence, in his opera, "Ain't No Sounds"
puffinge: It's annoying. Hey, CortexBomb, teach me how to do everything you said after "rip it"
Ozvortex: "........................................................"
djlg: Yes. No idea.
ssmooth: It's been used way too many times. The first I heard it was on Abbey Road, between "The End" and "Her Majesty."
javelin98: Yes, and I don't know
CortexBomb: I suppose, I'm apathetic at this point though since I just rip it, delete the silence, and then encode the resulting chunks as two seperate MP3 files anyway. And I have no idea.
jttm: Get a better CD player.
skelebone: John Cage, according to a recent lawsuit.
Lord_Prussian: Yes and I have no idea.
chaddyboy_2000: Not really.
CDRodeffer: Yes, it's much overdone. The first time I recall was in the early 1990s.
heli: John Cage