If I had a time machine, I would go back and explode sweet baby John Lennon for just this reason. The British Invasion (of the 60’s) was an assault on the rich heritage of American musical expression, which had been sort of thriving although it may have been on the decline. It, and the arrival of The Beatles in particular, was a sort of third stage in the grand mass marketing scheme catering to the impressionable (in this case primarily white) young person. The fourth stage involved reinventing and capturing the Left in order to channel leftist energy in to pretentious and weak inner transformation and symbolic therapeutic forms of bird-brained pseudo-resistance, as well as a tragically underdeveloped ear for good music or any idea what on earth is really going on.
I don’t know what stage we are in now, but I feel it is approaching the final one. The late stage head-shitter utopia stage I suppose.
More like one-armed bandits.
If I had a time machine, I would go back and explode sweet baby John Lennon for just this reason. The British Invasion (of the 60’s) was an assault on the rich heritage of American musical expression, which had been sort of thriving although it may have been on the decline. It, and the arrival of The Beatles in particular, was a sort of third stage in the grand mass marketing scheme catering to the impressionable (in this case primarily white) young person. The fourth stage involved reinventing and capturing the Left in order to channel leftist energy in to pretentious and weak inner transformation and symbolic therapeutic forms of bird-brained pseudo-resistance, as well as a tragically underdeveloped ear for good music or any idea what on earth is really going on.
I don’t know what stage we are in now, but I feel it is approaching the final one. The late stage head-shitter utopia stage I suppose.
Arctic News
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/
The Residents – Six Things To A Cycle (Parts I-VI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d09KbXhPyQc
An interview with performer, educator and archivist of the Great American Songbook, Michael Feinstein
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/12/23/fein-d23.html
Oh, you mean the American musical expression stolen by the White man from the Black man on both sides of the pond.
Yeah, blame it all on Lennon.
Lennon played his part.