Corpsey
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By all accounts their acid wss way stronger than ours, and at a time when it was relatively unexplored territory
Also our WEED is much stronger than what they had, if we're smoking skunk (we are)
By all accounts their acid wss way stronger than ours, and at a time when it was relatively unexplored territory
By all accounts their acid wss way stronger than ours, and at a time when it was relatively unexplored territory
I can’t hear it though. I suppose the Beatles did these things inspired by avant guard music which sound like intensity, but over all it’snot being communicated to younger ears.
By all accounts their acid wss way stronger than ours, and at a time when it was relatively unexplored territory
the 60's was the first time people were allowed to sustain childhood into their teens and early-20's. .
This song somehow sounds like acid to me, it's a bit woozy and fringed with darkness, as if you're quite happy but could easily slip into paranoia and hell given a poke
It's impossible to hear this music as (some of our) parent heard it. It all sounds quaint and cliched to us. Once it was new, radical, the opposite of the society they had grown up in (the postwar gloom).
for example that's incomprehensible to me. it sounds like easy listening. burt bacharach
the lewis carol fetish, beatles songs about childhood, the beatles pitch shifting their vocals to sound like child voices, etc.
I know what you mean but I disagree. It's an example, perhaps, of what I'm talking about with the Beatles - they're taking popular forms and queering them slightly (or majorly). It's radicalism within fairly strict limits.
that vibrational quality of drugs. the world humming. om. "buzzing"
Here's a guess of mine which is probably pretty unqualified but it is that what was radical was the disjunction of circumstance and emotion. Before, emotions in musical narratives arose from concrete causes. You fall in love = happiness, you break up = sadness. Your state of mind was determined by extrinsic events and factors.
Psychelia broke this restraint and made it possible to feel bliss without any tangible outside circumstance (Beatles). Or it made it possible to feel existential distress under normal circumstances (Syd Barrett). Instruments of emotional modificaiton now included new spirituality, mind exploration and psychedelic drugs. Freedom from the world, or real life, or whatever you wanna call it.
the radio clips either end of it. "turn on, tune in". becoming an antenna. pattycakes talking about frequencies.
that vibrational quality of drugs. the world humming. om. "buzzing"
fucking hell! that's jaw dropping!
very, very good.