OT-- pensive pop and orwell pop

[a l]

Dave, thanks for the brain feed, as here out in the otherlanguage 
culture-shock boondocks, I've got nothing to lean on but a whole lot of 
martian crap I don't know what to do with, but that seeps in like rusty 
water and backup in a flashflood torrential.

You listed 'em, the origin of pensive pop 'And your bird can sing', 'I'm 
only Sleeping', moving into 'Dr. Robert', then, later, after the (burning) 
rubber and the drifting of soul, and the bitter wedge of contemporary 
artist, 'Savoy Truffle', 'Happiness is a Warm Gun', and 'Piggies', that was 
sooo pensive, in fact, that it even inspired Manson to inculcate his 
children to mass murder after their lovely time on the ranch.  'Piggies' 
counts as pensive pop, but also as orwell pop, which we could bring back 
on-topic with TP's intro to _1984_.

Serge's 'Suis le poinconneur de Lilas', though catchy, shows what a 
horrendous pretty boy a la jacques brel and company he was at first, though 
it was perfect to lay the groundwork for him to come into HIS own with the 
later burning bills (Sinead would borrow heavily later on) and the 
chain-smoking and the counter-character paradox of a lifetime in song, like 
when you see pretty Cary Grant playing the villain in Hitchcock, or were to 
imagine 'Ol' Blue Eyes' singing a late version of his own 'My Way' to a 
reggae beat in army fatigues and dreads for the soldiers in the Me-Kong 
Delta or the oil fields of Basra, razor stubble, chain-smoke-yellow nails 
and teeth, sag-eyed and sassy, telling the boys 'you're beautiful, now go 
out there and die'.

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