• Who Do You Like & Dislike On the Sgt. Pepper =?UTF-8?B?Q292ZXI/?=

    From Norbert@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 7 11:02:02 2024
    I like:

    Poe. I've loved his stories & poems since I was a kid. Apparently he
    was also an astute critical essayist.

    Beardsley. A talented artist. He was gay, and there are more nude
    males than I care to look at, but plenty of women, too. In any event,
    he had a unique and impressive style.

    Terry Southern. I liked his short stories as a kid.

    James Joyce. " "

    Marilyn Monroe. A beauty who was tragically used and discarded by the sociopathic Kennedies.

    I read Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception as a youth. Today I'm
    indifferent to it. What's less well known is he was the grandson of
    Thomas "Darwin's Bulldog" Huxley.

    I dislike:

    Aleister Crowley -- a mentally ill dope fiend.

    Dylan -- a musical emperor with no clothes.

    and Marx. No person of sense should ever have taken this crap seriously.

    Lennon wanted Jesus and Hitler on the cover , too. I'm glad they were
    nixed.

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  • From cruciverbalist@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 9 15:27:46 2024
    On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 11:02:02 +0000, nyarlathotep1@hotmail.com (Norbert)
    wrote:

    I like:

    Poe. I've loved his stories & poems since I was a kid. Apparently he
    was also an astute critical essayist.

    Beardsley. A talented artist. He was gay, and there are more nude
    males than I care to look at, but plenty of women, too. In any event,
    he had a unique and impressive style.

    Terry Southern. I liked his short stories as a kid.

    James Joyce. " "

    Marilyn Monroe. A beauty who was tragically used and discarded by the >sociopathic Kennedies.

    I read Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception as a youth. Today I'm
    indifferent to it. What's less well known is he was the grandson of
    Thomas "Darwin's Bulldog" Huxley.

    I dislike:

    Aleister Crowley -- a mentally ill dope fiend.

    Dylan -- a musical emperor with no clothes.

    I appreciate your attempts to keep this group alive and I usually
    agree with most of what you post. But in this case I think you're
    being just a tad too harsh. I really enjoyed Dylan's output from 1963
    through 1975 and think his style (music, lyrics, arrangements,
    persona, etc) really fit the zeitgeist. I can still listen to that
    stuff now with the same enjoyment I listened to it then. However,
    after '75 he lost me. I don't know if he changed or I changed, but he
    lost me. YMMV.

    Jack


    and Marx. No person of sense should ever have taken this crap seriously.

    Lennon wanted Jesus and Hitler on the cover , too. I'm glad they were
    nixed.

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  • From Norbert@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 9 20:55:26 2024
    Thanks for your comments. I'm used to being in the minority in
    viewing Dylan as absurdly overrated. The one album of his I used to
    really like was Desire. I think it was largely because of Emmylou
    Harris's beautiful vocal harmonies, though. Cheers!

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to cruciverbalist on Thu Oct 10 20:30:34 2024
    On 2024-10-09 19:27:46 +0000, cruciverbalist said:

    On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 11:02:02 +0000, nyarlathotep1@hotmail.com (Norbert)
    wrote:

    I like:

    Poe. I've loved his stories & poems since I was a kid. Apparently he
    was also an astute critical essayist.

    Beardsley. A talented artist. He was gay, and there are more nude
    males than I care to look at, but plenty of women, too. In any event,
    he had a unique and impressive style.

    Terry Southern. I liked his short stories as a kid.

    James Joyce. " "

    Marilyn Monroe. A beauty who was tragically used and discarded by the
    sociopathic Kennedies.

    I read Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception as a youth. Today I'm
    indifferent to it. What's less well known is he was the grandson of
    Thomas "Darwin's Bulldog" Huxley.

    I dislike:

    Aleister Crowley -- a mentally ill dope fiend.

    Dylan -- a musical emperor with no clothes.

    I appreciate your attempts to keep this group alive and I usually
    agree with most of what you post. But in this case I think you're
    being just a tad too harsh. I really enjoyed Dylan's output from 1963
    through 1975 and think his style (music, lyrics, arrangements,
    persona, etc) really fit the zeitgeist. I can still listen to that
    stuff now with the same enjoyment I listened to it then. However,
    after '75 he lost me. I don't know if he changed or I changed, but he
    lost me. YMMV.

    Jack

    I've never been into the individual albums but I think his Greatest
    Hits Vol. 1 and 2 are must-haves, they separate the wheat from the
    chaff.

    I also own Vol. 3 and enjoy it. I think there's even a Vol. 4 out and
    I'd probably like it too if I owned it.

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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 12 17:17:48 2024
    super70s wrote:

    I've never been into the individual albums but I think his
    Greatest Hits Vol. 1 and 2 are must-haves, they separate the
    wheat from the chaff.

    I also own Vol. 3 and enjoy it. I think there's even a Vol. 4
    out and I'd probably like it too if I owned it.

    Surely four volumes of "Greatest Hits" is a bit of an oxymoron?
    Any song on Vol. 4 couldn't have been that great, or they would
    have been three volumes higher on the list! ;-)

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