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| From | "Gary Littleton" <gary@garylittleton.com> |
| Subject | Re: All Things Must Pass (or else they'll create intestinal |
| Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:41:54 -0400 |
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Very nicely stated!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org
> [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Milenski
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:11 PM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: All Things Must Pass (or else they'll create intestinal
>
> >And John nails it perfectly: whether folks mean for it to be
> there or
> >not, there is a strong stench of generational vanity to the
> claim that SGT.
> >PEPPER and PET SOUNDS are the alpha and omega of rock and roll.
>
> It's fair to say that about SGT. PEPPER, but I can't say the
> same for PET SOUNDS, which, like Marvin Gaye's WHAT'S GOING
> ON, is an album whose place in the canon was determined many
> years after the fact. The Beatles may have been influenced
> by it, but no way were whole generations of people's lives
> changed by it in 1966 the way they were by SGT. PEPPER in
> 1967 (or, NEVR MIND THE BOLLOCKS in 1977, NEVERMIND in 1991,
> and OK COMPUTER in 1997.)
>
> It's complicated to determine exactly why the critics seem to
> favor certain records (and I have said time after time that
> the 90s trend towards critics finally rating REVOLVER as the
> best Beatles' album is pretty much due to all of the American
> critics who were actually hearing the full 14-song album for
> the first time, and in a sense, having the thrill of
> something new), but there's no question that PET SOUNDS is
> one whose star rose over time rather than one that people
> look back at as a nostalgia piece. I'm not even going to
> make a judgement about whether that makes it a better record,
> just that it's not appropriate to put the cult of SGT. PEPPER
> nad the cult of PET SOUNDS into the same box.
>
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