"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

03 February 2019

Anti-music.


All that drivel at with their bizarre shrubbery, the Beatles are obviously a press agent's dream combo. Not even their mothers would claim that they sing well. But the hirsute thickets they affect make them rememberable, and they project a certain kittenish charm which drives the immature, shall we say, ape.

The Beatles are not merely awful; I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are god awful. They are so unbelievably horribly, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music, even as the imposter popes went down in history as "anti-popes."


William F. Buckley Jr.

A (partial) list of crimes against humanity ...
  1. "Yellow Submarine"
  2. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
  3. "Rocky Raccoon"
  4. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
  5. "Glass Onion"
  6. "All Together Now"
  7. "I Am the Walrus"
  8. "Octopus's Garden"
  9. "Birthday"
  10. "When I'm Sixty-Four"
  11. "With a Little Help from My Friends"
  12. "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band"
  13. "Magical Mystery Tour"
  14. "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"
  15. "All You Need is Love"
  16. "Come Together"
  17. "Back in the U.S.S.R."
  18. "Paperback Writer"
  19. "Drive My Car"
  20. Side Two of Abbey Road

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