zarpex
zarpex of The Virgin-Whore Complex
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You Better Listen! Listen!

Posted about 4 years ago
I believe very strongly in the importance of good lyrics in rock music, but it seems to me that a lot of its listeners find that viewpoint effete and snobbish, and consider rock to have a kind of primal energy that's actually served better by stupid (or at least unintelligible) lyrics than clever ones. I think the first two lines of this song articulate their aesthetic with a stupidity that approaches genius:??Don't need to hear what they're saying'Cause the words are drownded out by their playing??Yes; "drownded." And that's not out of character. The Merry-Go-Round wrote the most consistently dreadful lyrics of any band I truly like.Allowing for that, however, their output was fantastic, and this song would not (if its lyrics had been better) have been out of place on ??Sgt. Pepper's??.
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  1. TylerDurden
    TylerDurden says "consistently dreadful" ... a bit harsh in calling them dreadful, but complimentary in calling them consistent.....well put....always tearing down and building up in the same sentence....like an outstanding oxy-moron....keep it up. "CHIMICHANGA" haha
    Permalink posted 01/09/2008
  2. TylerDurden
    TylerDurden says the CHIMICHANGA comment is accreditted to Chuck.
    Permalink posted 01/09/2008
  3. dermahrk
    dermahrk says Well, it SOUNDS great. And yes, I can certainly hear a big Pepper influence. I'm unfamiliar with the Merry-Go-Round, though. Were they a 1960s group?
    Permalink posted 01/10/2008
  4. zarpex
    zarpex says Yes, dermahrk; they were an L.A. band fronted by Emitt Rhodes (who went on to some modest success as a solo artist and producer), and this song was released as a single in 1967. Derivative, sure, but they were teenagers, and I think it's healthy for new bands to wear their influences on their sleeves...
    Permalink posted 01/10/2008
  5. Konkrypton
    Konkrypton says Does have a very Sgt. Pepper feel to it, what year was this? (Austin Powers voice): "Groovy, baby, YEAH!"
    Permalink posted 01/10/2008
  6. zarpex
    zarpex says '67, Konkster. They didn't waste much time, did they?
    Permalink posted 01/10/2008

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