I seldom disagree with Charles Pierce but I think the seldom mentioned anniversary of Aretha Franklin's RESPECT is more noteworthy than the Mop Head's over-reported album.
I don't have a copy of the album but I'll bet I could still hear the one it came out on, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You. I don't think that other one would be more than wall paper, which happens when you hear something too many times.
Update: Oh, I think in two and a half minutes Aretha and her sisters Erma and Carolyn remaking of Otis Redding's song did more for more people than than many lauded volumes on the bookshelf of the second wave of feminist writers managed to.
So the quality of a work of art depends on how often you've been forced to encounter it? Jeebus, you're a fucking idiot.
ReplyDeleteSteve, whoever gave you a passing grade in reading in elementary school must have done it out of pity because you are obviously incapable of reading anything and having it mean what it means.
DeleteI didn't say that. Not that it will keep you from posting a garbled version of what I did say at Duncan's Den for Dyslexics.
The greatest recording of the greatest piece of music ever written can't stand up to that many listenings. And, Stupy, nothing the Mop Heads produced falls into that category. Even Aretha Franklin's recordings don't stand up to that kind of repetition. And they aren't any Aretha Franklins.
"The greatest recording of the greatest piece of music ever written can't stand up to that many listenings."
ReplyDeleteSo you exactly what I said you said. And it proves you're a fucking idiot. Quel surprise.
Anticipating something like that, I wrote a limerick and posted it.
DeleteAnd you're boasting about it?
ReplyDeleteAbout the limerick? You think that's boasting?
DeleteHas anyone suggested you be evaluated for early stage dementia because while I was never impressed with your skills in grasping the meaning of words I think you've slipped from even the position you used to have.
I see your misrepresentation at Duncan's didn't have the effect you were hoping for. I forget, hadn't the Mop Heads stopped performing in public by the time of Sgt. Pepper's? It wasn't long after that that they did because the smart Mop Head's habit was getting out of hand. I think it's telling how much longer The Band kept on despite Richard Manuel's and Rick Danko's drug addictions. But, then, their material was ever so much better so it was worth keeping it up longer. Though, in the end, I don't blame Robbie Robertson for ending the group. I doubt I could have withstood that kind of punishment for as long as he did.
The Fabs quit touring because Lennon was a junkie? And Robertson ended The Band?
ReplyDeleteYou're an ignoramus and you're out of your fucking mind.
If it were more important to me I'd remember which of your fellow rock critics said those things. I can't remember, when did Lennon' long, cross country bender start and end? It lasted more than a year, didn't it?
DeleteI'll bet you favor the Yoko broke them up theory, don't you.
Says the guy who thinks the Supremes wrote their own songs and played the instruments on their records.
ReplyDeleteOh, Simps, you prove what I said. I never said anything like that. And we've been through that before. I never said I was a fan of the Supremes. Though I have said that I was a fan of Martha and the Vandellas, many times. I think your continued claims on that point reveal that they all look alike to you.
DeleteDiana Ross and the Supremes do not equal Martha and the Vandellas. Get that much right, Simps.
Says the guy who thinks Martha and the Vandellas wrote their own songs and played the instruments on their records.
ReplyDeleteAnd, again, you lie because I never said anything like that.
DeleteTo lie is Simels.