tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820665525852614768.post1376811799145077496..comments2023-09-20T16:16:26.566+01:00Comments on I sold up and moved to Mars: Brand new, you're retroArtoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846359529440273892noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820665525852614768.post-29576106941751968232009-04-28T18:32:00.000+01:002009-04-28T18:32:00.000+01:00Thanks. Both my parents are jazz lovers so there ...Thanks. Both my parents are jazz lovers so there were times (I’m thinking Saturday mornings here) that I wished ours had been a slightly quieter house. No doubt I’ll succumb to jazz eventually like I did to other previously inexplicable parental activities. My mum was in London for the latter half of the Sixties, but just a bit too old for all the grooviness, though there is a snap of her sitting in a kitchen and a Bob Dylan single can be seen peeking out of a magazine rack.Artoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01846359529440273892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820665525852614768.post-49668164758298427572009-04-26T19:51:00.000+01:002009-04-26T19:51:00.000+01:00Neither of my parents are into music at all, and f...Neither of my parents are into music at all, and from that point of view, I grew up in a more or less silent house. I always found this a little odd because they were at JUST THE RIGHT age for the brilliant stuff that came out in the late 60s, being just a little younger than the Beatles. They even lived in London. But no - nothing. My dad had a load of old "Top of the Pops" records that he had acquired from the days when his father used to run a pub. My mum used to listen to a guy called Peter Skellern when in the car. Funnily enough though, one of the records they did somehow have was "Revolver"..... it is thus the first Beatles record that I ever listened to in full. Of course, in those days I focused on Eleanor Rigby, which is a pretty much perfect song. You're bang on to say that it is both timeless and totally different from loads of their other stuff. Perhaps it's because of Revolver that I insinctively fall on the Macca side of the debate, rather than on Lennon's side. It's notable though, that when I finally picked up my own copy of the album when I was a student, it was like listening to it with a wholly new set of ears. Eleanor Rigby stood out, of course, but Tomorrow Never Knows, in spite of having heard it before, was like nothing I'd ever heard before. And what about that searing riff on Taxman?<br /><br />Great band. We forget, given how ubiquitous they are, and how over-exposed some of the songs are, quite how good they were.<br /><br />That said, they are rather uncritically accepted by most people, and "Revolution in the Head" is so good precisely because of the fact that the author isn't afraid to say when he thinks a song is crap or lazy or just simply average.<br /><br />Good post.<br /><br />STswisslethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16708248700851998044noreply@blogger.com