Posted on 01/28/2023 11:27:55 AM PST by nickcarraway
Yes, one always liked Zappa.
That all being said, it would have been interesting to see how John would have changed over the years, since apparently he liked Reagan, ever since Reagan took the time to explain to John the rules of American football when they both appeared on a Monday Night Football game, around 1975.
There is a reason that billionaires don’t set up funds to buy health insurance for people who don’t have it. In reality, they don’t care.
Tubular Bells is awesome, it’s way more than just the part they play in The Exorcist.
I think John would have succumbed to RightThink. It’s the only way to stay relevant.
Not the same song for 5 hours
This is completely lost on me. I have never looked at pothead musicians and their lyrics for any kind of guidance whatsoever. I mean, do people actually do that?
Well Yoko would have made sure.
Which is why I have a theory that Yoko might have had something to do with John’s murder.
“I’m just a singer in a rock and roll band.”
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I’m going to hire Kurt Vonnegut to write a paper about Kurt Vonnegut
“Hey Kurt, can you read lips?”
I’ll tell you this: I don’t know who wrote that paper but whoever did write it doesn’t know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut!
Thanks for posting this very strangely written piece.
I am left hoisted by the petard of Charles Manson’s questionable relived dualities, steadfast to transcend society forevermore but always eager to goal in.
Thing about the Beatles is, they were the original Backstreet Boys with their matching suits and almost too long hair selling vacuous pop songs to teenage girls for a buck and a quarter a piece. Not bad stuff but nothing serious. A few years, several acid trips, pounds of pot and an Indian guru or two later they become the pied pipers leading a generation of drug addled, hippies into leftist retardation. They released some interesting stuff in their acid head period but a lot of garbage, too. As individual artists, they are each pretty average.
The 60s were no Renaissance, our society today is completely shot through with the ills birthed in that unfortunate decade.
No. Read the lyrics.
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today, I
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
Well said. Before all that crap we didn't need to MAGA...we were great.
Steely Dan was better than the Beatles in every respect.
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“Love Is All You Need”
Says the multimillionaire with 6 different homes and a private jet. Yeah, OK buddy.
Music artists are best when they “Shut Up and Play”, and sometimes not even then. Lennon’s cheese had obviously slipped off his cracker by ‘67, a pompous twit who couldn’t even write catchy tunes any longer, for the most part. Stay away from drugs, kids.
This.
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