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|3.15.06 @ 5:44PM|#
The Peter Herbolzheimer version of "A Day In the Life"...begins innocuously enough with Don Adams on vocals doing a super-slowed down, ballad-y version.
In my mind's ear I hear Maxwell Smart intoning: "I heard the news today, Oh Boy..."
|3.15.06 @ 7:24PM|#
In the 70's I attended a Lefty meeting, mighta been SDS, in Boulder which featured a speaker complaining about pop music's reactionary corrupting influence on "movement consciousness". Among the examples he cited were the Beatles' songs "Taxman", and "Revolution" with the lyrics:
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
I'm thinking that he and Tipper Gore mighta found some common ground.
|3.15.06 @ 7:30PM|#
This is what my mind heard:
He blew his mind out in a car...Would you believe he missed it by that much?
|3.15.06 @ 7:34PM|#
Kudos to H&R for shouting out funky music blogs!
JG
(recovering record collector)
|3.15.06 @ 7:46PM|#
Tangentially related to old records, I was thinking that this would make a good Friday Fun Link:
http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/
|3.16.06 @ 1:29PM|#
Junior Wells' version of "Satisfaction" is a LOT better than Junior Parker's version of "Taxman."