Tusk Vs The White Album

just what i think of when i think of distorted glam horns

now i'm thinking those might be strings.. carry on

the horns are super distorted on Savoy Truffle. song rocks

they already had solo albums out, at least John, Paul, and George

not really... paul didn't, george had instrumental 'wonderwall music,' and 'two virgins' came out 11 days before the white album. neither are 'solo albums' in the sense that the 1970 ones are

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/Thefamilyway1967.jpg/220px-Thefamilyway1967.jpg

Paul did this movie soundtrack in '67, which he later adapted into one of his classical pieces.

and if they would have been in the spirit to make another trippy/experimental magical mystery kind of film in 1968, these songs would be leftover:

Bungaloo Bill
Don't Pass Me By
Glass Onion
Piggies
Ob-la-di
Savoy Truffle
Rev 9

also USSR. as maybe the song you find in the vaults and release sometime in the 21st century

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, November 7, 2017 12:58 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Am I a heathen for liking this stretch more than the others?

what this thread has reminded me is that if you try to compare anything to the Beatles, everyone just ends up talking only about the Beatles and not that other thing - what was it that Half Japanese said - NO MORE BEATLEMANIA / ONCE IS ENOUGH!

Maybe Tusk is just a boring album after all?

I've been listening to it for 38 years and I put it on last night and still got something new, so no.

a friend pointed out that if you play only the lennon-composed or mccartney-composed songs from this album, you've just about got a hypothetical solo album for each of them.

ah yeah, I have done this for Lennon (with only a little editing)and I enjoy the result :

Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
Happiness is Warm Gun
I'm So tired
Julia
Yer Blues
Sexy Sadie
Everybody's Got Something to Hide
Revolution 1
Cry Baby Cry
Good Night

not really... paul didn't, george had instrumental 'wonderwall music,' and 'two virgins' came out 11 days before the white album. neither are 'solo albums' in the sense that the 1970 ones are

― flappy bird, Tuesday, November 7, 2017 4:33 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They're still solo albums.

I just want to point out that Adam has been OTM throughout this thread.

I am kinda coming around to Turrican's theory that if you removed Paul's genre exercises, "Revolution No. 9", "Goodnight", and Ringo's country song, you p much just have a collection of fairly conventional rock and folk songs. Miraculously, the album is also about 2/3rds shorter.

I'm still working on the logistics of this but also if you remove every track except "Revolution 9" you p much just have a collection of fairly conventional Stockhausen-derivative, dissonant sound collages, to which the 1968 pop-buying public was thoroughly inured thanks to the avant-garde boundary-pushing of Dickie Goodman and Dave Seville.

lmao

I don't find any of Adam's examples spooky at all. If he's evacuating his bowels over 'Cry Baby Cry' and 'The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill', then I'd shudder to think of what happens when he hears 'Blue Jay Way' ... that probably eradicates his bowels, and in the big scheme of things that isn't particularly spooky either, but it has a "bad vibes" feel that pretty much every track on The Beatles lacks.

seriously are you eight years old or what

dude just stop it with this "wahh what a widdle baby" schtick, it is the most boring possible response to people describing what they hear in a record

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Well firstly, I registered here in 2011 so technically you're not far off.

Secondly, I seriously can't help being amused when something is described as something that it clearly isn't and when people read things into things that aren't there - it makes me seriously question their abilities as a critic.

Turdican isn't interested what people hear in a record, they're interested in what THEY hear in a record, and they NEED you to be interested in that too

fortunately there is a way to avoid them

Everyone's a critic, oy! (xp)

it makes me seriously question their abilities as a critic.

i seriously questioned your abilities as a critic after you spoke favorably about a bunch of shitty music for several years straight

is it cool to post on this thread if i'm not a critic? oh please, just let me be a silent observer of these hallowed grounds where those who can hear The Way occasionally gift us commoners with a glimpse of their wisdom

I mean, there's some decent songs on The Beatles in amongst the crap, and there's some enjoyable moments, but if you're spooked out by Desmond and his barrow in the marketplace, then there's professional help available for that.

shut up dork

I mean, it's 2017... if the Beatles cult can't accept by now that not everything they did was up to par and that quite a fair bit of the mythology is bullshit, then fucking hell...

glad we've circled back to this

flopson hating on the white album is at the very least entertaining and interesting

I mean, there are some decent scenes in The Shining in amongst the crap, but if you're spooked by two girls wanting to have a playdate, then there's professional help available for that.

Seriously. Seriously.

I mean, people keep talking about the hotel being cursed by Native Americans, but there are no Native Americans in that film. When something is described as something that it clearly isn't and when people read things into things that aren't there - it makes me seriously question their abilities as a critic.

Nobody ITT said that they were frightened of Obladi Oblada. However plenty of people have cited multiple specific moments on this record they found creepy in tone. Love it when Turrican reads into things that aren't there

I mean, it's 2017... if the Kubrick cult can't accept by now that not everything he did was up to par and that quite a fair bit of the mythology is bullshit, then fucking hell...

I mean, it's 2017... if the Kubrick cult can't accept by now that not everything they did was up to par and that quite a fair bit of the mythology is bullshit, then fucking hell...

Oh for fucks sake, Tom D :( FP.

if we can get him tempbanned for a while i promise to listen to tusk again and come up with some thoughts

turrican, i mean. not tom. or fred even.

I mean, it's 2017... if the Kubrick cult can't accept by now that not everything they did was up to par and that quite a fair bit of the mythology is bullshit, then fucking hell...

Also, Stanley Kubrick was a funk band.

I don't hear "bad vibes" in "Blue Jay Way" personally. it's (yet another) Beatles song about being sleepy/tired!

Also, Stanley Kubrick was a funk band

^^^winner

worth it for seeing tom d. and fred collapse into one person

some of the greatest directors ever are funk bland

The Shining is the wrong example. See The Beatles as being more like Despicable Me 3, if the film was nearly 50 years old and had a dedicated cult fanbase over-analysing it over numerous years to the point where the myth has spiralled out of control.

Frederik, you'll have to point me to some posts you've made on funk threads... all I seem to see you talking about is the Arcade Fire.

Yes, god forbid the myth of The Shining ever spiraled out of control...

off topic, but

I mean, it's 2017... if the Kubrick cult can't accept by now that not everything he did was up to par and that quite a fair bit of the mythology is bullshit, then fucking hell...

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, November 7, 2017 1:51 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean, it's 2017... if the Kubrick cult can't accept by now that not everything they did was up to par and that quite a fair bit of the mythology is bullshit, then fucking hell...

― Frederik B

frederik changing only the word "he" to "they" was a surprising move

More surprising than anything Turrican has ever posted.

There was that thread about famous funk and Talking Heads who are the musical equivalent of Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 had it bombed at the cinema in 1933 but grown a passionate cult following to the point that in the mid-80s meatball sales sky rocketed

*band

creepy/spooky/eery =/= frightened

Anyhow, I'm pretty comfortable in the knowledge that those lining up to "defend teh Beatlez honour, maaaaan" look far more ridiculous in their OTT losing-their-shit reactions than anything I've posted, so...