Posted on 07/29/2016 12:41:59 PM PDT by Mariner
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2016/07/29/dad-rock-beatles-revolver-album-turns-50/87681696/
“respectfully disagree with you. Believe it or not, the 20s and 30s. The Frankfurt school and Gramsci...”
That never got any real traction until the 60’s.
I think it was the flappers during the 20s, and the swivel hipped rockers of the 50s.
Time marches on, if you approve or not.
“I think it was the flappers during the 20s, and the swivel hipped rockers of the 50s.”
Silly comment.
Think about it, that generation of “scholars” trained the generation that taught baby boomers. Whoever teaches the teachers....
Good Day Sunshine and Got to Get You into My Life are favorites.
Just ran across this:
SEARCHING FOR TRANSCENDENCE WITH RADIOHEAD
“Still, I keep going to shows, in venues big and small, in pursuit of rapture. I want another taste of the Pentecostal frenzy that I remember, accurately or not, from the hot non-arena shows of my youth.”
Exactly your point.
Sir Paul shares our feelings of decrepitude.
Fifty years. It seems like only Yesterday.
McCartney said so himself, that his dad sang a lot of Tin Pan Alley stuff around the house. Listen to McCartney’s “Your Mother Should Know.”
There are different levels of genius. There’s Bach and there’s Richard Rodgers.
“Rubber Soul...”
...contains the song “Michelle.”
Disregarding Mrs Obama, if we can for a moment.
I’d always liked songs based on the words, first; the music was just accompaniment.
I’d always thought the lyrics for “Michelle” were sappy, silly, and trite, aside from the clever gimmick of switching between English and French.
But one day I was walking past a record store, with a very good sound system, in a shopping mall. And that song was playing.
The music —especially the break between verses—literally stopped me in my tracks. It is hauntingly beautiful.
There’s that weird, bellows-like instrument, perhaps a calliope, that makes a squishing sound, like soft footsteps. (The same instrument is used to make the circus-y sounds in “For the Benefit of Mr. Kite” on Sgt Pepper’s)
And then there’s that oboe.
I stood there and listened and was totally carried away, wishing I could BE that French girl, Michelle, whoever she was, and be made to feel so beautiful and so loved.
The Beatles’ genius was in doing things that were far out—like mixing up electric guitars with orchestral music, and kazoos, calliopes, and sitars, and then letting George Martin put it all together.
I don’t do show tunes.
Don’t forget Macca and Costello’s “Veronica”....just a fantastic song.
I found that a trenchant analysis, and it gave me some points to think about.
Makes Lennon’s point that that they were more popular than Jesus at the time look not so foolish, now.
I mean, these songwriters are clever the same way an ad man is clever.
Like Leo Burnett:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Burnett
Marianne in fact had a great comeback and did her best work in the 80s and 90s. Recently her health has failed.
I saw her live in a nightclub in San Francisco in 93. She was no longer a sweet soprano; she sang in a whiskey/cigarette voice like Dietrich, and was awesome.
I offer up "Yesterday", which Lennon conceded was "all Paul".
CA....
No, he wrote music, and he did it very well.
As for myself, I'm more a fan of Strauss the Younger, but then, that's just me.
Glad you're a music aficionado!
CA....
But women loved it.
Pre Rock pop was interchangeable with theater music. You wouldn’t call Leonard Bernstein a jingle writer.
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