non-trekkie or jerker top ten albums

joeallonby vze422fs at verizon.net
Tue Sep 21 17:19:21 CDT 2004


on 9/21/04 6:07 PM, Joel Katz at mittelwerk at hotmail.com wrote:

> yes it is--the american release.  i always thought revolver was
> overrated--too much proto-easy-listening crud.
> 
>> From: joeallonby <vze422fs at verizon.net>
>> To: Joel Katz <mittelwerk at hotmail.com>,<pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: Re: non-trekkie or jerker top ten albums
>> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:11:33 -0400
>> 
>> Yesterday and Today seems like an odd choice since it isn't really an
>> album.
>> Why not the UK version of Revolver?
>> 
Most of the good songs from Y&T are on the UK version of Revolver. Are you
saying that "Yesterday" isn't proto-easy-listening crud?

Y&T is a compilation cobbled together by Capitol. It's not really an album,
and the Beatles never intended those songs to be released in that context.




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