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This from the local paper last weekend:
<<Remember when Rolling Stone said "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was the best album of all time, so you ordered it for a penny from the Columbia House Music Club and listened to it 1,328 times before realizing that it was actually the worst album of all time and Rolling Stone was never to be trusted again? As painful as it might be to expose your ears once again to simpering pop songs such as "Lovely Rita" and "When I'm Sixty-Four," the awkwardly named New York reggae collective Easy Star All-Stars.....>>
(for rest of review of that record, go here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 006&sc=497)
Like many (most?) of a certain age, I indeed thought Dr. Pep was the be-all, end-all. A dozen or so years ago, I did a flip-flop and quit listening to it. In the last year or so, however, it has crept back into my consciousness, and while I no longer think it's the greatest, it's a marvellous piece of work well worth listening to.
Around the same time another of my faves, The Moody Blues, also fell out of disfavor, but they too are enjoying a recent comeback in the gh repertoire.
The early Beatles I never lost, nor the Stones or the Doors, or Hendrix.
If you're from that era, is there anything that was indispensible to you that you find yourself asking, "What was I thinking?!"? (you know, like Sugar, Sugar by the Archies :-) )
<<Remember when Rolling Stone said "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was the best album of all time, so you ordered it for a penny from the Columbia House Music Club and listened to it 1,328 times before realizing that it was actually the worst album of all time and Rolling Stone was never to be trusted again? As painful as it might be to expose your ears once again to simpering pop songs such as "Lovely Rita" and "When I'm Sixty-Four," the awkwardly named New York reggae collective Easy Star All-Stars.....>>
(for rest of review of that record, go here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 006&sc=497)
Like many (most?) of a certain age, I indeed thought Dr. Pep was the be-all, end-all. A dozen or so years ago, I did a flip-flop and quit listening to it. In the last year or so, however, it has crept back into my consciousness, and while I no longer think it's the greatest, it's a marvellous piece of work well worth listening to.
Around the same time another of my faves, The Moody Blues, also fell out of disfavor, but they too are enjoying a recent comeback in the gh repertoire.
The early Beatles I never lost, nor the Stones or the Doors, or Hendrix.
If you're from that era, is there anything that was indispensible to you that you find yourself asking, "What was I thinking?!"? (you know, like Sugar, Sugar by the Archies :-) )
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