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May 20, 2023

The Music Thread: Rampant Iconoclasm...Run Away!

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[Garrett has a formal event!]

But first...

The Beatles is the best rock band in...Hah Hah Hah...No way I can finish that sentence!

Fight me!

Yes, they are excellent, innovative, and much loved (or so everyone tells me), but they are also a band that screams out, "Look At Us!" And while they have some incredible songs, they also made a fair amount of pretty pedestrian music that I skip over after a few seconds.

And...were they any good in concert? I am not a huge fan of live music, but that is part and parcel of rock! The only Beatles concert music I have heard is resoundingly mediocre.

I like Come Together. It's interesting, and although like most Beatles songs it last too long, it's not the worst offender.

Help! Yeah...it's a good one.

Norwegian Wood. Not bad. I like the guitar work.

Strawberry Fields Forever. Am I the only one who finds this song really, really irritating?

I Want You. Sorry...another dud.

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Below the fold is some stuff I have listened to in the last few weeks. Specifically: stuff I didn't skip after a few seconds. You know...like most of The Beatles stuff.


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The James Gang? Funk #49

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Lou Reed's Dirty Boulevard is quintessential, and definitely not for everyone, as he seems to engender some strong feelings. But I love him.
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Boston! Peace Of Mind brings me back to my callow youth, which is not an unalloyed good thing for some people, but still, the 1970s had some damned fun music!
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Speaking of the 1970s, Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way is another huge hit from mid-decade that seems to define it in my music memories. The band did 17 studio albums, which is about 14 more than I knew existed, but I freely admit to being woefully ignorant of the minutia of the industry. I mostly just grunted and pointed when I heard something I liked.
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Manfred Mann had a surprising number of hits for a band I always thought of a "One Hit Wonder" (sort of). This is a really fun one! Do Wah Diddy Diddy
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I pay no attention to modern music or its industry, so have no sense of whether new music is a very big deal to people the way it seemed when I was growing up. it is easy to fall into the conceit that the music that I grew up with was better, but maybe I have been missing some incredible stuff over the last 25 years when I simply stopped giving a rat's ass about new stuff.

Though, I doubt it.

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