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Record titles or track titles are a chance to cloak the work with a kind of poetic garb. That isn’t glib in any way, I take it very seriously—and that’s not saying that the titles are about nothing—but often people run with that stuff so far that you need a meaning structure around it to interpret a work. But often people build up such a sort of ornamentation around the work they actually don’t get to the substance of it.
