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The Beatles are my favorite band, but I also never signed a contract to consider each and every one of their albums, as their best album. If that's already too much for you-- then just cover your ears now....
Some people, who can think think that which they please, of course-- think that "Revolver" is.....
I mean, "Taxman"-- the song just pisses me off. It's like: George Harrison pisses me off sometimes-- Exhibit A, "Taxman". Screw you, George. Oh my god, stop *whining*-- you're supposed to be a *beatle*!!!!!
I mean, I *like* the Early Beatles. It's not they didn't do *alot* of awesome shit on the B-side, if you will-- they had alot of fun. I think that "I Am The Walrus" is alot of fun, for example. "Hey Jude" is alot of fun. "Strawberry Fields" is alot of fun-- "Hello Goodbye" is fun.
But I don't think that this is alot of fun. The lead song turned me off-- and the rest of it.... I mean, to be honest, there was a time when I was under the impression that George wrote "Taxman" in the 70s in one of his "screw the Beatles" phases, you know.
(And sometimes there is something, even in a mis-understanding. That one of my silly friends mis-took "So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star" for "Eight Miles High" *really does* say something, I think, about the real talent of Chris Hillman-- the guy wasn't an idiot. And he was always very calm, I think.... And there is something in that.... It's just that.... I don't know, now I'm getting *ironic*....)
I mean-- don't get me wrong, it's still pretty great, considered against the *whole world*, but....
But, I mean, as far as Master-Pieces go, it sucks, IMO. Compared to "Pet Sounds", it sucks, *I* think. It's probably as good as "Fifth Dimension", which was probably the best that the Byrds ever did, I find. But I'm also not sure.... I don't think that it would make my list of the Top Ten Beatles Albums, if you'll excuse the expression.
George, just shut up. God, I used to *like* you.....
Don't pull a David Crosby on me, or maybe I'll fire you and replace you with Chris Hillman.... (Yes, like Pete Seeger, I am God. I am God, so I can do trippy things like firing George Harrison from the Beatles....)
I mean-- I think that the 1965 albums are better, I really do. "Help!", which, to me, is like the Last Early Beatles album, IMO, has this kinda cool way of being.... traditionally subversive, at times, among other things-- "You're Gonna Lose That Girl" is a great sorta traditionally-subversive vibe, I think.... as opposed to "Taxman" which skids dangerously along the edge of Crosby Lane, I think, and, I mean, even the rest of.... *Revolver*. Revolver. I mean-- it *does* have more than one meaning, I'll allow that. But, still. The *Beatles* called one of their albums, *Revolver*, and the lead song was *Taxman*.....
I mean, they're still The Beatles, but, I don't like it.
I mean-- it's still a super album, in a way.... they are simply, exceptionally talented. It's just not as good, *for them*.
And, in "Rubber Soul".... that was good.
I mean, Paul still wrote some songs for "Revolver"-- "Good Day Sunshine" is obviously a Paul song, I knew it before I looked it up to make sure-- he was always himself, you know-- it's *easy*.... Just like it's kinda easy to tell that "You've Gotta Hide Your Love Away", from "Help!" is John, being a certain sort of John which is actually *very* John-- it's just that you forget, sometimes, somehow.
It's funny.
I mean, in "Rubber Soul" there is this new maturity, new.... *sophistication*. In a way, it's very John-- a *new* John emerges!-- but, Paul is there too. And Paul is always Paul, not like John, really-- but he does change, ever so subtly and cleverly. "Michelle" is a very *intelligent* song, in a way. (And, amusingly, right-- the French. "Toujours means I always will"-- oh, no, wait, that's James Taylor. You know how people, "speak French", though, it's funny.) It really is very intelligent, though, it's very. Very funny. It's exactly the right thing to do-- now my way of life becomes more *sophisticated*.... you like that too. You like that too....
But with Revolver-- I mean, it could be alot worse, but it *is* there a bit, and, so, I'm not sorry to say it. There's almost this-- you know what? Screw you, Parlophone, (British comedy label named Parlophone), ..... I only have to release *one* album this year! And I'm going to call it.....
I mean-- didn't they.
Part of the frustration is naturally that the Beatles and people like that were changing.... and other people, *were not* changing, at all.... It's not fair; it's not fair; it's not--
George. Shut up.
I mean.... but.... yeah. Yeah.
It's a bit like "Beatles for Sale", from '64, ironically enough. ("Everybody's trying to be my baby....") There is some unhappiness in that album, albeit in an "Early", subtle kind of way.
*annoying* I want to be more *artsy*. (Is that from.... or....?)
*Beach Boy* You mean.... "Wouldn't it Be Nice"?
You know.
I think so.
I mean-- "Beatles for Sale" is clever to, in a couple of interesting ways. It's still not the best album. Compared to "With the Beatles", or the "White Album", it's not quite as.....
It's really not quite as good, I think.
And compared to "Revolver".... I don't know-- a little similar, isn't it funny.
(One day, I'm gonna be all *artsy* and shit-- I'm not gonna listen to Parlophone any more!!!)
OMG! I'm being artsy!!!
Yeah. I mean-- it is *rather* nice.....
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" comes up from this, and is an improvement in a way, I think, although, at times, a little similar.
I mean-- I'm not saying that George Harrison is an idiot or anything, or that Ravi Shankar and everybody.... I mean, "Norwegian Wood" was pretty cool, in a John kind of way, hahaha. I'm not trying to say that *every* use of *foreign* music-- hahaha!.... hahaha! That's funny!!! hahaha, ah, that's funny.... (Oh! Susanna! Don't you cry for me! 'Cause I come from Alabama, with a banjo on my knee..... Oh! Darling! Please believe me! I'll never do you, no harm.....).... Yes, that is pretty funny.
{I mean-- and then there was the band that literally released an album in '04 called "American Idiot".... because there were punks, I guess.... From Steven Foster.... No, from David Crosby.... Ed Sullivan, where are ya, man?.... I used to (sorta-- that's the thing, when you hardly listen to what you hear) listen to stuff that was way worse than Franz Ferdinand.... which itself.... flirts with the pedantic.... God, what happened to Chuck Berry, who literally wrote a song called "Rock and Roll Music", you know.... "It's gotta be rock and roll music if you wanna dance with me".... (John told me that) Chuck said.... and then John said, "If you want money for people with minds that hate, all I can tell you is brother you have to wait....".... that was *totally* John's I mean, Elvis is the King, and John loved him, but he did also say, "If it wasn't called rock and roll, it'd be called Chuck Berry"-- I mean, he did literally, write, 'Rock and Roll Music', lol.... I think that Chuck Berry, *is*, actually a much better musician than Jimi Hendrix.... than Chuck Berry? No, and it is, I find, very unjust that people say it like it ain't.... And I don't even think that it's a Paul and John thing-- people didn't just *imagine* that John Lennon was a great man.... No, it's more like saying that, not even *comparing*, actually saying that Eric Clapton is "better" than the Beatles-- (lol), "if you go holding pictures of Chairman Mao".... I mean, it's so stupid; it's like something that *Nixon* would do. I mean, I don't think that Nixon was a *malicious* man the way the Reagan and such were, but god what a pedantic little *idiot* he could be.... Ringo for President-- '64, lol.... I'm sorry, it's so true, though....}
{I mean, at least it got better, because they were.... I mean, Sgt. Pepper got better, it's not like the Beatles were giving.... *laughs* *amusing dramatic* Sgt. Pepper is a solider for racial justice, and a true class-friend, just like.... LBJ was born in Stonewall, Texas-- now, *that* is funny.... I mean, I hate "songs like that", but, I'll allow that Sgt. Pepper is just as good as the other albums, because it got a little bit better, from "Revolver", somehow.... *laughs*.... God, it could have sucked so much....}
{I've also never understood the way that some people felt about Kennedy, but I guess that I'm not as Irish as my parents were.... (and, incidentally, some of the things that Johnson did were very good... Yeah, we don't want that....).... I mean, "He was a Friend of Mine" by the Byrds was a great song.... I kept waiting for the tie-in with.... Oh, they mean Dallas in Texas.... but, there's not any place in Russia.... I guess that they can't mean Bryce Dallas Howard, because..... So, I guess they mean the Southwest.... what's in the Southwest, though.... Lol-- not, literally, but.... lol....}
I mean-- I would never would never say that *every* use of foreign music is.... conceited, I guess.... What would be the best word.... not quite pedantic, more.... *show-y*, or, something. I mean-- sometimes, George Harrison really *honestly* wanted people to listen to Ravi Shankar because it's, really true, that it was really just good music.
"I wish them well, where they now dwell, all across the sea...."
In the north of England.
And, you know, the one song from "Fifth Dimension"-- "I Come And Stand At Every Door"-- was actually written by a Turkish gentleman. Turks are pretty cool people. There are actually alot of cool people in the world. Like Russians. ("Been away so long I hardly knew the place-- Gee it's good to be back home-- Leave it to tomorrow to unpack my case....") They had that one man, the bearded intellectual, Lenin, who loved the people, and then there was that *other* foreign gentleman from England, and his name was....
I think that you might really groan at me if I made a joke about Alabama and Georgia....
*with Russian accent* But sometimes that foreigner, bad man.
Like George Harrison.
..... Okay, man, well-- then, I *don't* like you!
I mean, he literally wrote a song about what a bastard he is, right.
I guess that he wanted me to know something. *rolls eyes*
But, I mean-- I still want it put it in perspective. It's still a great album, and a Beatles album, even. It's just that it's not as good as.... "Magical Mystery Tour", for example!!!
And at least it's not modern crap from the 90s or even later, or, even earlier.... actually even by the 80s, it's modern crap already, and not.... *classic*.
I mean, like those *broad-minded indie guys* "They Might Be Giants", who formed in 1982, and performed in 1990 that classic of Turkish folk rock, "Istanbul, Not...."
.... Not a good song, lol.
("There are weddings; there are feasts-- may friends remember me....")
And it's also not as good as "Back in the USSR"-- it seriously, just, isn't. I mean.... have you ever heard an Easterner try to.... dissent, I guess.... from these whiney shitty Westerners and the way that they *whine*?....
{And yes-- my review title is a little silly, in the sense that, I do actually kinda want George Harrison to be slightly more super than fucking Scott Pilgrim the indie loser who's watched about seven too many sci-fi *extravaganzas*.....)
I mean, the song-- "Istanbul", or, whatever-- was originally recorded in 1953, the year that Stalin died and the Nazis living in East Berlin staged an uprising....
.... I guess that some people had failed to become "classic rock", even before that shitty song, "Eye of the Tiger" was written in 1982.
I try to juggle all these different ways of keeping it in perspective.
I know that maybe the comparisons might sounds excessive maybe, but there really is a reason why it's as good as it is and as not good as it isn't.
I mean-- compared to "Rubber Soul", right.
Maybe the problem is that they were younger than they were yesterday-- something like that.
...............
Then again, sometimes I'm bogus disconcerted, because compared to "5th Dimension", which I love, this is a trippy easy day trip.
And, yeah, Eleanor Rigby.
So, I still don't know what to say.
(9/10)
