Right exactly. In the latter case, I don't think we ever could have predicted The Doors based on Craigslist. (Although in that case, I think we had the single art with Al as Jim Morrison right away.)Marko_The_Odd wrote:So are you saying that there's no way on predicting what the song is about or that we should be thinking backwards as to what artist would have a style that would lead Al to do a song with the title Mission Statement? Because Germs feels like a theme that comes naturally from it being a Nine Inch Nails styled song.
Whereas something like Craigslist came mostly out of how it unlike Doors-like a theme it is.
Germs is a case where, theoretically, someone could have happened upon NIN based on the title and the themes that NIN songs typically evoke. All I am really speculating is that the title Mission Statement could be a song where, in retrospect, we may realize that we could have gotten it. And given that, Radiohead would be one decent guess.