Re: Who Do You Like & Dislike On the Sgt. Pepper Cover?

On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 11:02:02 +0000, nyarlathotep1@hotmail.com (Norbert)
wrote:

I like:
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Poe.  I've loved his stories & poems since I was a kid.  Apparently he
was also an astute critical essayist.
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Beardsley.  A talented artist.  He was gay, and there are more nude
males than I care to look at, but plenty of women, too.  In any event,
he had a unique and impressive style.
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Terry Southern.  I liked his short stories as a kid.
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James Joyce.  " "
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Marilyn Monroe.  A beauty who was tragically used and discarded by the
sociopathic Kennedies.
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I read Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception as a youth. Today I'm
indifferent to it.  What's less well known is he was the grandson of
Thomas "Darwin's Bulldog" Huxley.
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I dislike:
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Aleister Crowley -- a mentally ill dope fiend.
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Dylan -- a musical emperor with no clothes.

I appreciate your attempts to keep this group alive and I usually
agree with most of what you post. But in this case I think you're
being just a tad too harsh. I really enjoyed Dylan's output from 1963
through 1975 and think his style (music, lyrics, arrangements,
persona, etc) really fit the zeitgeist. I can still listen to that
stuff now with the same enjoyment I listened to it then. However,
after '75 he lost me. I don't know if he changed or I changed, but he
lost me. YMMV.

Jack
 

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and Marx. No person of sense should ever have taken this crap seriously.
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Lennon wanted Jesus and Hitler on the cover , too.  I'm glad they were
nixed.