Jul 30 2008
She Said I Know What It’s Like To Be Dead
The Beatles were almost always on in my house when I was a kid. My father likes The Beatles an insane amount. He is one of these guys that thinks the universe can thank them for every note of music played after their first show in Hamburg. I used to argue the same point with people at one point in my life. In fact, a good friend of mine in Riverdale (the world famous Joey Farin) would get into fights with me all the time about the Beatles. He loved Led Zeppelin and I loved the Beatles and I’m pretty sure we ruined both bands for alot of our friends. He said the Beatles didn’t rock hard enough and I said if it wasn’t for the Beatles Led Zeppelin wouldn’t be around. It was two 15 year old kids arguing about music from the late 60’s and early 70’s in 1995.
For those of us who did like the Beatles growing up, we would go to Agnes’ house in the heat of the summer, sit in air conditioning and listen to the Beatles. For some reason, “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” always reminds me of those afternoons. In fact, the whole Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album reminds of the summer of 1995. The Yankees were good for the first time in forever, I was spending more time in Riverdale than at home and we were all at the age where you decide what kind of music you’re going to be into.
Whenever people talk about the Beatles, the idea of which Beatle is their favorite always seems to come up. I know they get alot of credit in the world of music and plenty of people think they get too much. However, what other band do you ask that question about? I can’t really think of any off the top of my head. I used to always say Paul was my favorite and he still is for the most part but I can now see why people dug John so much also. George is a good pick too; although sometimes I feel like people say George just to not say John or Paul. Anyone that says Ringo is trying to be cute.
I always liked Paul for songs like “She’s Leaving Home” and “For No One.” I always listened to those songs and thought about how good a job Paul does making you feel exactly what he is feeling. John was great for songs like ”Across the Universe” and “She Said, She Said.” George’s songs were always solid and I always felt like he had to really show the other two that he could hang with them because they usually only gave him a song or two on an album. Ringo songs, for the most part sound like a song on Sesame Street. Has there ever been another person in history that stepped in a bigger pile of shit than that guy? I don’t dislike him…I’m just saying.
I just recently put a bunch of Beatle shit on my iPod and I’ve been listening to them quite a bit. When you rock as hard as I do on a daily basis, it’s kind of nice to take it down a notch.
A few words on Coldplay if I may? Yes? Okay.
Coldplay may be the most self important bad of all time. They make U2 look like a shy group of lads from whatever shithole they crawled out of in that bog they call Ireland. I understand you’ve had some hits here in the States; hell I even like the new single of this last album. Just take a step back and slow your roll a touch fellas. This guy Chris Martin thinks everyword he sings is on going to cure AIDS, cancer and blindness. So I say to Coldplay, “Just hold on, ok? Lets not get crazy. Just wait a minute.”
Check this out:
http://gawker.com/5030531/dead-monster-washes-ashore-in-montauk
Joe scared me alot.