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Kenji MoonfieldRolling Stone just ranked the thirty-one best screams in music history, and the rules only count the moment the singer really lets loose, not the whole song.
Kenji MoonfieldWith us from FCI Danbury is Cornelius Vandeventer, inmate forty thousand seven hundred eighteen, and a self-described music critic.
Kenji MoonfieldWhat do you make of that rule?
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Cornelius VandeventerI love it. Strictly as an observer, a person should only be judged on their best thirty seconds.
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Cornelius VandeventerI have argued that to a parole board, and they did not agree.
Kenji MoonfieldThe Pixies made the list with Rock Music from nineteen ninety-one, which the list calls a one minute fifty-two second scream tantrum.
Kenji MoonfieldIs that too long?
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Cornelius VandeventerNo, that's commitment. Strictly as an observer, I once held one note for a full minute in a room with a lot of witnesses.
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Cornelius VandeventerIt was a Friday.
Kenji MoonfieldA room with witnesses.
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Cornelius VandeventerA karaoke bar. Allegedly. The screaming was the best part, and the court only played the parts around it.
Kenji MoonfieldMitski's Drunk Walk Home ends with a scream that takes up the last thirty seconds of the song. Does the rest of the song count?
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Cornelius VandeventerStrictly as an observer, no. The rest is the walk.
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Cornelius VandeventerNobody remembers the walk, they remember who got loud at the end, and I've been told I did.
Kenji MoonfieldWednesday's Bull Believer repeats Finish him from Mortal Kombat until it becomes a wail of more than two raw minutes.
Kenji MoonfieldIs that a scream or a confession?
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Cornelius VandeventerRepetition is how you get everyone to believe you. I said I was innocent forty times at my hearing.
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Cornelius VandeventerIt didn't work, but the rhythm was great.
Kenji MoonfieldSo you'd want your record judged by the loudest thirty seconds, same as the list. Is that the rule?
