re. Beatles/Stones

[Mark Kohut]

Now I get it: Beatles/Stones is Sublime vs. Satanic in group form....

--- On Sat, 8/15/09, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: re. Beatles/Stones
> To: scuffling at gmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Saturday, August 15, 2009, 8:38 AM
> 
> << Great stuff, John, but you left out the two most
> famous/recognizable notes
> (and pauses) in rock: the first notes of I Feel Fine and of
> Help. >>
> 
> 
> Or that first enormous chord of 'A Hard Day's Night'. Ah,
> Henry, I miss many things! BUt yeah, that feedbacky start of
> 'I Feel Fine' is sublime, and actually the beginning of the
> music for the IV promo video reminds me a little of it, by
> way of Sonic Youth.
> 
> 
> There are, to mu knowledge, one or two little sublime
> moments in the Rolling Stones's catalogue - the opening of
> Gimme Shelter for instance - but the Beatles' records are
> brimming with them.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm still trying to like the Beach Boys, and failing. Every
> now and then I put on Pet Sounds and when I hear the start
> of Wouldn't It Be Nice I think, yeeeeessss this is
> grrrrreat, but as the album wears on I soon get tired of it.
> I know, I know...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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