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The lower dens - real thing
http://archive.boston.com/ae/music/..._pynchons_tales_music_is_the_backbeat/?page=1
is says that the novel is just an alibi for pynchon who finally had the chance to publish his own lyrics
had a swell time today with inherent vice, but i am only half way through, so you have to endure more of its soundtrack in the coming days, if everything goes swell...
"all the way up to topanga, the radio cranked out a super surfin' marathon, all commercial free - which seemed peculiar until doc realized that nobody who would sit through this music-teachers nightmare of doubled-up blues lines, moronic one-chord 'tunes', and desperate vocal effects could possibly belong to any consumer demographic known to the ad business. ..... 'pipeline' and 'surfin' bird' by the trashmen, and 'bamboo' by johnny and the hurricanes, singles by eddie and the showmen, the bel airs, the hollywood saxons, and the olympics, souvenirs out of a childhood doc had never much felt he wanted to escape from" (P.125/6)
cool one here - swooooosh
this one i know, why?
Yeah I know who you remind me of
A girl I think I used to know
Yeah I'd see her when the days got colder
On those days when it felt like snow...
Ah. Paris. I remember I shoplifted that on cassette when it came out by sticking it up the sleeve of my jacket.
Catch really doesn't fit on there though. It's such a good, mostly dark performance, and then Catch comes along and gives you auditory diabetes.
cant say much about the second half of the book at this moment, but i fear that the song references so far can also be accomplished by some good research, you dont have to be an excited enthusiast for that. he is not really getting into the the lyrics, yes, a line here and there, some name-dropping and insider terminology, but in order to prove a real understanding connaisseur, you would probably have to get deeper into the individual song's nature, read between the lines, get a feel for its original motivation. so far i enjoy them as kind of a glittery decoration which is wonderful and funny. probably he didnt want to attach a more profound meaning to the songs as this would also raise questions concerning his light-hearted depiction of the 60s drug scene, for example. yes, he is lecturing in an entertaining way, but more superficially, not so much about the songs' soul, if you know what i mean
Something for the old farts.
Is this because you just don't like Stevie Nicks? He is in a bird sanctuary, as it happens. But as far as I know, he really does just love dancing to Edge of Seventeen.arent these signs of hospitalism?