'Trash'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
DavidS: It's also cool to cite McCartney's bass playing.
StephL: hastily hides Abbey Road under the couch cushion....
I really like Abbey Road. There. I said it.
To be fair, though, I feel like I've internalized the Beatles to the extent that I hardly ever listen to them.
Just that it's not "cool" to like it.
Obviously! Followed by eye-rolls from here to Waukeegan when Sgt. Pepper tops any Greatest Albums list.
Where's boucher? He can make an excellent iconoclastic rock snob case for one of the American editions over the British one from the Beatles mid-period.
I really like Abbey Road. There. I said it.
Join me, fellow weirdo. Welcome to the corner of shame.
I really like Abbey Road. There. I said it.
Which side?
I'm sticking with my quixotic choice, "I Dig A Pony."
I, ah-ah-I, ah-ah-I, diiig a pony... Love that tune. I'd pick "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" over "Cry Baby Cry," but I'm a Lennon partisan & like almost all of his stuff on the White Album (don't like "Revolution 9," although I do like to go "Numbrrr 9, numbrrr 9, numbrrr 9"). But any snob cred I have is probably lost -- boohoo -- by my preference for early Beatles over late Beatles. I mean I love late Beatles, too, but anyone who tries to devalue With the Beatles using Sgt. Pepper as the blunt instrument needs to be smacked. And keeping with that train of thought, my quixotic choice is from Please Please Me, John's killer cover of "Anna (Go to Him)". Love him on "Baby It's You," too.
I'd say it takes up less than 1% of my snobbery pie chart.
Where are you spending the rest of your snobbery?
My take on the Beatles is, after 30 years of listening to oldies (and hits-n-oldies) stations play everything from their catalog every hour on the hour, I've had enough of them.
Except "Penny Lane," for some reason.
And anyone who calls me a rock snob doesn't know my taste in music.
Don't you have to disagree with popular opinion to be a snob? And if so, when you make public what snobs are supposed to like, doesn't that become a popular opinion so you have to change yours to something else?
Aha! That explains Peter Bagge!
Actually, as a general principle, I don't think snobs about anything typically go against the snobbery grain. I suspect that there's generally agreed apogees and most argument is about which marginal item should or shouldn't be in. The difference with rock snobs is that those margins are more extensive than with many other pastimes.
I really like Abbey Road. There. I said it.
Which side?
I disremember where the line of demarcation is for the sides, b/c I've had it on CD for 15 years.
Though I'ma say side 2.
Join me, fellow weirdo. Welcome to the corner of shame.
One of us! One of us!
Which side?
2, dude.