Monthly Archives: August 2018
I can’t say goodbye: classic rock is popular again, but it doesn’t make me happy
In the UK, the reissue of the Beatles ‘ “Abbey Road” album topped the national charts in early autumn. And now interest in this chic box with a lot of additional material has not dried up. Why am I not happy about this fact?
All-knowing statistics show that this happened 49 years 252 days after the record went down from the first place. “It’s hard to believe that Abbey Road is still holding up after all these years,” Paul McCartney himself tweeted. The Beatles broke their own record: the album ” Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band ” the gap between the top places in the UK charts was 49 years and 125 days.
It’s not that I don’t like the Beatles. I like the late period, for example. And a solo Lennon. Continue reading
Canned food and clones, or Where is the new classic
They say: they don’t argue about tastes. To be honest, I never understood the meaning of this expression. How can you argue about tastes? “My taste is better”? “The taste is there! – No taste! Give me ten proofs of the existence of taste! “Taste, as the Lord God, is a transcendent entity!”Nonsense, verbiage… And if someone says that they hate this or that musician, and I love him, for example, very much, then there is no reason to argue at all. You love, I don’t, and love is an inexplicable thing, and if it’s explicable, it’s not love at all, but a marriage of convenience, with all due respect.
Several reasons for this column. First, the new year, the new decade of the XXI century. The results are asking for themselves. But this is in General; in particular, for example, Denny lane comes to Russia with a band that “covers”… Creedence Clearwater Revival. Continue reading
