SOLUTION:
Steps to solving (a few can be out of order):
- Identify the ST quotes from the psycologist's transcript as lyrics from
classic punk songs (some are fairly obvious, and the oddity of the
conversation should give away to start googling for them; plus, when
you look up "punk" in webster's, "touchwood" is a deffinition; ginn and
rollins were the lead singers of black flag).
- After the song is identified, find:
- The band's name. Any band titles that can contain "the," although
I made sure with all of these that it was optional, should not
count the "the" in later steps.
- Identify the _RECORD_ that these songs came off of. All of the
info is based on the LP that the song first apeared on.
- ***CRUCIAL STEP*** Identify the track and side of the song from
the original LP. I hinted at this with the oddity of the
reel-to-reel transcript having an album number and a track
number. As far as I can tell, reel-to-reels didn't have
tracks or sides. Plus, both the law office and psychatrist
are LLPs, as in LP
- Identify the record label that the record was put out on. This step
is crucial, but the oddity of the "records" and the fact that
I spelled out the name of BYO records should lead in the right
direction.
- ***CRUCIAL STEP/LEAP*** now that the tracks and sides are known, recognize
the logic of pulling out letters: if track n is on side A, take the nth
letter of the _A_lbums name. If track n is on side B, take the nth
letter if the _B_and name. I hinted at this in the text (much more in
the revised version), but it might not be a strong enough hint.
- A possible check: when decoded in order, the letters spell out "a fun hare."
The psychatrist's office is Unhereux & Lapin, which can be translated
(oddly) into "a happy bunny" which is good enough for me.
- Pull out the name of the record companies from the "epitaph" (epitaph is the
name of one of the record companies).
- Use the order of record companies to rearrange the letters into the answer:
HUERFANA
letter | track | side | band | album | song | label |
h | a | 1 | bad relgion | How could hell be any worse | we're only gonna die | epitaph |
u | a | 4 | circle jerks | groUp sex | operation | frontier |
e | a | 6 | ramones | ramonEs | now i wanna sniff some glue | sire |
r | a | 8 | minor threat | minor thReat | minor threat | dischord |
f | b | 3 | snFu | and no one else wanted to play | the gravedigger | BYO |
a | a | 2 | t.s.o.l. | dAnce with me | code blue | frontier |
n | b | 7 | dead keNnedys | fresh fruit for rotting vegtables | viva las vegas | i.r.s. |
a | b | 3 | blAck flag | damaged | damaged II | sst |
RESOURCES:
the online punk discography. the only site i found with info
on all of the records... of course, you can always go to
newbury et. al. and check the records in real life.