genius or a case of right-place right-time?
me thinks a bit of both. (but prolly more the later)
especially difficult to judge after the fact -- is the cover of Unknown Pleasures perfect for the music or do we THINK it is perfect because the image is burnt into our minds? is it iconic of its own merits or has it BECOME iconic due to association?
the nit-picking and anal retentive perfectionism, is it expressive of a meta-rational empathy for the "zeitgeist", an intuition which reaches to the heart of the times, OR is it just some prima-donna behaving like a princess which becomes high-theater in the eyes of the press, which then becomes "legendary" and thus taking on all the significance which we attribute in hindsight?
we should do a poll...