They persisted in screwing up the partridge antecedents

[cfalbert]

At 02:16 PM 4/2/04, you wrote:
>of course the beatles, you gumballs.  but what about the kinks?  'sitting 
>on my sofa' anyone?  'sunny afternoon'?


Stacked against Waterloo Sunset, Sunny Afternoon is completely gay.....


>and what about syd barrett and david bowie (in his more faggy neo-anthony 
>newley phase).

and yet, "Be My Wife", of all things, really smokes... the list of high 
quality snog hammered by newley is long indeed...it likely exceeds, both in 
number and quality, that stapled by Serge........I'm off to shop for an 
ascot as we speak...


love,

cfa

>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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