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SPLHCB...too dated?!?!
Yes...Yes..yes...
Can still remember vividly the very first time I heard it...
My mate(we were both aged around 10...both working class lads) and who was never into music...or made a big thing about it...was excited and wanted to play the LP for me...
I didn't even know where he got the LP from and i was surprised he even had LPs or could afford them..
Things were tight and expensive back then for working class kids and their families in Melbourne..
Out came SPLHCB onto the little stereo his sisters owned and he wanted me to hear it...
Well after all his excitement of wanting to play the LP...I listened...
Normally he could not sit still but for this LP...he was as still as a sphinx on the sofa in the corner..in particular replaying...a day in the life...over and over...I listened..he listened..
I was more interested in the LP cover..all those different faces...clothes..
I knew that he was an atheist...never went to Religious service...just a loud gagerious boisterous kid who I hung around with...but for this LP his listening was attentive...respectful...reverent almost...maybe the closest he ever came to a spiritual experience...I was astonished...
I on the other hand who went to Sunday Church regularly...disliked the LP immediately...i could not stand the dirgey sounds...didn't want to listen to it and fidgeted...it bored me and I wanted to leave...
To me SPLHCB sounded heavy and flat..with no spark of life...and it amazed me that my mate liked it..
The closest I can get to describing it was like listening to a tv or radio broadcast from out of the distant past...a painful droning...time consuming irritation...the Queens Christmas message...my husband and I...blah...blah...blah...
SPLHCB is the only Beatles Album/music I hate..
Even today if I hear any song I have an immediate physical reaction...
SPLHCB?!?
Dated?!?
to me it was dated the day it was released...
It still astonishes me that people rave about this LP as it was the best thing since sliced bread...to me its stale...its always been stale to me...
Apologies for the rant...(feels good to finally get that out!)
Yes...Yes..yes...
Can still remember vividly the very first time I heard it...
My mate(we were both aged around 10...both working class lads) and who was never into music...or made a big thing about it...was excited and wanted to play the LP for me...
I didn't even know where he got the LP from and i was surprised he even had LPs or could afford them..
Things were tight and expensive back then for working class kids and their families in Melbourne..
Out came SPLHCB onto the little stereo his sisters owned and he wanted me to hear it...
Well after all his excitement of wanting to play the LP...I listened...
Normally he could not sit still but for this LP...he was as still as a sphinx on the sofa in the corner..in particular replaying...a day in the life...over and over...I listened..he listened..
I was more interested in the LP cover..all those different faces...clothes..
I knew that he was an atheist...never went to Religious service...just a loud gagerious boisterous kid who I hung around with...but for this LP his listening was attentive...respectful...reverent almost...maybe the closest he ever came to a spiritual experience...I was astonished...
I on the other hand who went to Sunday Church regularly...disliked the LP immediately...i could not stand the dirgey sounds...didn't want to listen to it and fidgeted...it bored me and I wanted to leave...
To me SPLHCB sounded heavy and flat..with no spark of life...and it amazed me that my mate liked it..
The closest I can get to describing it was like listening to a tv or radio broadcast from out of the distant past...a painful droning...time consuming irritation...the Queens Christmas message...my husband and I...blah...blah...blah...
SPLHCB is the only Beatles Album/music I hate..
Even today if I hear any song I have an immediate physical reaction...
SPLHCB?!?
Dated?!?
to me it was dated the day it was released...
It still astonishes me that people rave about this LP as it was the best thing since sliced bread...to me its stale...its always been stale to me...
Apologies for the rant...(feels good to finally get that out!)
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