Posted on 07/16/2009 7:11:34 AM PDT by mattstat
Paul McCartney has once again crept upon our shores. He was, of course, vanguard in the original “British Invasion”, which occurred in early 1964. Now, an invasion is something to be resisted, to be fought off, to be repelled. Sadly—quite, quite sadly—we had no Winston Churchill on our shores to boost our morale with stirring words like these:
'We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in New York, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Culture, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender";
and so the invasion was a success, our surrender quick, our cultural defeat total. All that is left is rebellion.
Here is the first of many examples of what appeasement and acquiescence has wrought. Try not to sit too close to your screen when reading the ride-hand column. There is a danger of, what they call on the professional eating circuit, a reversal...
(Excerpt) Read more at wmbriggs.com ...
Durn kids! Git off my lawn!
A short clip from Churchill’s speech into Aces High...
My parents to me: Turn that crap down!
Me to my parents: You listen to old fogey music.
Me to my kids: You call that music?!?!
My kids to me: You listen to old fogey music.
This might be the worst:
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
Paul McCartney wrote “Yesterday”.
Screw Cole Porter.
The interesting insight from your comment, dmz, is that each of those parents is quite correct in their admonitions given that the quality of music has been in retrograde for several generations now.
The decline of music started with punk and acid rock and then deteriorated even more so with the advent of rap and hip hop which thoroughly gutterized music altogether and made such things as misogyny, drug abuse, alcoholism, murder and rape palatable to their audiences. Thank God we still have country music which I like although not the same way that I really enjoyed the classic country music artists such as Eddy Arnold, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Loretta Lynn, Hank Williams, Johnny Horton, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Patsy Cline and Tammy Wynette just to name a few.
The decline of music started with punk and acid rock and then deteriorated even more so with the advent of rap and hip hop which thoroughly gutterized music altogether and made such things as misogyny, drug abuse, alcoholism, murder and rape palatable to their audiences. Thank God we still have country music which I like although not the same way that I really enjoyed the classic country music artists such as Eddy Arnold, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Loretta Lynn, Hank Williams, Johnny Horton, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Patsy Cline and Tammy Wynette just to name a few.
Remember that the Beatles were simply emulating and re-packaging their heros in America - Delta Blues, Elvis, Buddy Holly.
Oh, well said, SJSAMPLE. Witty and trenchant, and of course utterly convincing.
That’s a John Lennon song.
Parents: That Beatles music is turning you into a delinquent.
My reaction: I ran away to Florida with the girl next door.
Good times...
Glad you liked it.
Always great to see an anachronastic musical comparison by those on their way out, desperately clinging to THEIR past.
I’ll stick with The Beatles, thanks.
George Harrison also wrote “Something”, which Frank Sinatra called the most beautiful love song ever written. Paul McCartney wrote some beautiful music, and some was just cute. Cole Porter had his style, and the Beatles had theirs.
Let's not forget "A Day in The Life"
Today, you can listen to Rap (contemporary) or you can listen to Motown classics, or the Beatles, or Led Zeppelin, etc. Sure, it's 40 years old, but who cares?
Truthfully, I think it's odd that music has become somewhat stagnant and that many kids today listen to the music of their grandparents because nothing better seems to have come along lately.
Don’t forget, murron, that Sinatra often drank to excess.
Not “THEIR” past, old boy, OUR past. Our culture.
Incidentally, the Beatles were *before* my time. I came after they did.
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