A qn to keep you all going

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I asked this to worldofagwu as part of a MEME but felt it had wider potential (tho his answer was of course excellent):

Have the lyrics of a song ever changed your mind about a non-musical matter?

(WOA expanded the meaning to include "provided you with useful practical information" too which suits me!)

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

"Won't Get Fooled Again" was quiet?

I dunno, I find a lot of the bullshit very endearing. I like the catastrophes that ensue -- it was one thing that attracted me to the White Album, just how adamantly it refuses to cohere. This requires a LOT of bullshit, because there are plenty of great songs on there. But what I've noticed in returning to really early Beatles stuff (esp. their first) is what incredible economy there was in their songwriting, even in their bad ones; but maybe you can't "flesh out" a skeleton without including a buncha fat. <--metaphor skillz struggling today. (I'd say that the Kinks and the Who had plenty of fat, too, but most people don't "read" those bands as...well, sacredly, for lack of a better word, letting every song constitute something of great import. I think there are plenty of people who'd be offended if you suggested skipping through the late Beatles catalogue (I thought the LOVE idea was great, but I wasn't hugely fond of all their selections/sequencing -- interesting how difficult it is to integrate their early stuff! There's no fat in it, so you have to separate it out in an almost jarring sort of way), but I wonder if anyone would feel as strongly about, e.g., the Kinks. (My not knowing enough about the Kinks means I'm sorta bullshitting here.)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I think I'm using 'quiet' for the same complex of cultural associationa as you're using 'less sacred' - just to observe that it's not surrounded by so much fuss.