They persisted in screwing up the partridge antecedents

[Joel Katz]

of course the beatles, you gumballs.  but what about the kinks?  'sitting on 
my sofa' anyone?  'sunny afternoon'? and what about syd barrett and david 
bowie (in his more faggy neo-anthony newley phase).

and what the fuck was elo doing up there?  are you nuts?

and who's the numbnuts who said 'skylarking' is better than 'drums and 
wires'?  it's like mccartney on poppers.



>From: "a l" <elviscoturbio at hotmail.com>
>To: monrobotics at yahoo.com, malignd at yahoo.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: OT-- pensive pop and orwell pop
>Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 17:18:46 +0000
>
>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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