Two wrongs make a right?

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I'm indifferent to the Beatles and jangly folky strummy pop is my absolute bete noire. So why have I been listening to 'Rubber Soul' all weekend? Great album! Even the Harrison songs are good, and only "Michelle" portends McCartney's degeneration into pastiche superfluity. And "The Word"! Mercy! My 'fallback' album of the moment. Anybody have their own examples of x(crap) + y(crap) = z (great)?

dave q, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

confused impro + hippy attitude = sun city girls infinite looped motorhead + hippy attitude = kawabata makoto rock projects folkish pop rock + hippy attitude = comus ..... guess I have a re-thinking on hippy attitudes cosmic

francesco, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can think of lots of answers that are similar to yours dave q like liking pop songs made by old people I didn't really have the same love for as other people anyway, ie liking Lets Dance by Bowie or Emotional Rescue by Rolling Stones or Rod Stewarts disco songs. I mean in all those cases its supposed to be, the original moment was better (ie Exile on Main Street, Ziggy Stardust, Small Faces) but then I consider them kind of dull, then they get combined with pop 'crap' (though here we can say I am failing a bit on the 'y' part of the formula, you have an x and a y you genuinely think are crap whereas I only have a y that is theoretically crap (inhuman pop).)

maryann, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You mean, sort of like 70s Elvis? "American Trilogy" etc

dave q, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah. I guess this is getting even further from the x + y = crap thing but this morning I made a tape alternating 'Sick of You' (Stooges) 'China Girl' (I. Pop's version), 'Tight Pants' (Stooges), 'Endless Sea' (I. Pop) etc there is a kind of delirium in this sort of alternation

maryann, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

duane if you're reading this i have a great version of endless sea over the top of tv eye, good tape deck eh.

maryann, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)


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