Thursday, November 30, 2006

How I learned to stop caring,

And stop reading pitchfork.

I've had it. I only spent maybe 5 minutes looking at pitchfork. That was five minutes wasted.

I'm cranky and here's a symptom. Regardless of whether or not taking the beatles music and mashing it up for french-ish contortionists in the Le Circ is a good idea or not, here's the 2nd paragraph:

"Glass Onion" was Lennon having fun with the Beatles myth, referencing his earlier songs and mocking the tendency to "decode" them that would eventually get way out of hand when Beach Boys pal and "Never Learn Not to Love" composer Charles Manson sent his minions into Beverly Hills to commit mass murder. "Glass Onion" was Lennon's attempt-- on the fly, while the band was at its peak-- at recontextualizing his Beatles work, to remind us all that music is supposed to be fun. The joker was laughing with us, jabbing an elbow in our sides to say, "Hey, we're just a pop band here, folks."
You silly, silly person. If you'd ever done any research AT ALL, instead of just remembering there's some connection between manson and the white album you might look up something snd find out that the White Album was the catalyst for manson to go off the reservation - AND you'd find that the song "Glass Onion" was in fact, ON the fucking White Album. One might even say that there are grooves on the vinyl disc that when played at 33 and precisely 1/3 revolutions per minute sounds mimicing the song Glass Onion would issue forth. Like tissue paper from a spastic cash machine.

I want my five minutes back.

Update: I'm a big loser - the paragraph says eventually get out of hand with manson. i missed that. Note to self - take some remedial reading comprehension courses at the local middle school. grade: amateur. Sorry about the outburst.

1 comment:

Myku said...

Ha ha, well at least you're up on your Beatles lore, even if you jumped the gun a little! I went back and read the article myself- one thing that got on my nerves is the writer said the Beatles were 'just a pop band' what felt like a million times. Now, I realize this was just part of the schtick, and the writer uses that at the end to tie the whole article together, but come on...

The Beatles were just a pop band the same as Charles Mingus was just a bass player. They actually defy that categorization so profoundly and so succinctly on almost every level, and it's (IMHO) nothing short of slight-handed cruelty to deny the fab4 anything less than their own category so that they might not suffer being thrown in with the likes of Madonna, Michael Jackson, Oasis, the Culture Club, the Beach Boys, etc.

Not that any of those artists are necessarily bad...

...they just ain't the Beatles.